There has been a recent incident involving comedian Tyler Fischer at Fox, where he is no longer welcome due to allegations of harassing a young female employee at the network’s New York studios earlier this year.
Fischer, 38, was a frequent guest on Gutfeld!, the network’s widely popular late night show that pulls in about five million viewers nightly.
But after boldly asking out a young female staffer during a visit to the network’s Manhattan HQ in January, his appearances have dried up.
Fischer says his only ‘crime’ was innocently asking the woman out for coffee.
The situation unfolded when Fischer arrived early for a meeting on January 30, before his appearance on Gutfeld’s show. It was during this time that he approached the woman at her desk.
Fischer, speaking to Daily Mail, described it as a ‘flirty little interaction’.
Recalling the encounter, Fischer mentioned introducing himself by saying, “Hey, I’m Tyler… I need to get going to the show to film, but would you ever get coffee sometime?”
Moments later, he was approached by security.
The female staffer complained that he’d harassed her and reported it.
Comedian Tyler Fischer says he’s been blacklisted by Fox after asking out a female employee at the network
The incident occurred at Fox’s Sixth Avenue HQ on January 30, when Fischer was in the building to film Gutfeld!
‘Security grabbed me and I was escorted me off the floor.
‘It was confusing – I didn’t get what happened… I was stunned and humiliated,’ he says.
Fischer was then accompanied by security to the Gutfeld set to film, and left the studios afterwards.
Two weeks later, a pre-arranged appearance was canceled.
Fischer – who has appeared on the show over a dozen times in the last two years – hasn’t been asked back since.
He believes he’s a victim of a woke ‘mind virus’ culture, and that he did nothing wrong.
‘It is not illegal or against any rules at Fox to ask a grown adult for coffee.
‘But in the woke mind virus world, any advance by a man is labeled as some kind of toxic masculinity,’ he fumed.
Fischer is now contemplating legal action against the network, he says.
‘It is beyond tragic to see men hide away in fear. I, for one, will not allow it to happen to me,’ he said.
Fischer was a regular on Fox’s widely popular late night show Gutfeld! until the January incident
Fischer claims he was unfairly accused of harassment and blacklisted as a result
Representatives for Fox declined to comment. The staffer in question has not been named.
She was sitting at her desk and had not been interacting with Fischer when he approached her, he said.
The interaction was overheard by other network employees.
As for Fischer, he is a comedian who lives full-time in Texas. He had been renting out an apartment in New York specifically to appear on Fox, he said.
A well-known figure, Fischer has appeared on both the Joe Rogan Experience and Kill Tony, and is currently touring across the US. He has built a sizable following over the past or two years thanks to his Gutfeld! appearances.
In a previous spat, he accused a talent agency of refusing to sign him because he is a white man.
‘We love you. Everyone here loves you and thinks you’re a star, but we’re not taking you because you’re white,’ he claims agents at AGI said.
Fox faced a sexual harassment reckoning in 2017 with an onslaught of #MeToo allegations against late chairman Roger Ailes and a handful of male stars.
Bill O’Reilly was among star hosts who’d been accused of harassing female colleagues.
