Steve Harvey took to an apology to his fans after an employee posted a tweet from the actor’s official Twitter page that asked users to name a comedian they “don’t find funny at all.”
“Somebody that works for me on my Twitter put a statement out that was totally negative,” he began in a minute-long video message posted to Twitter Friday.
“I gotta take responsibility for it ’cause they work for me, but the engagement was talking about, ‘name a comedian you don’t think is funny.’”
Steve says he's got official social media people handling his accounts, and insists it wasn't him who posted it ... going on to lament the tweet as mean-spirited and downright negative. “Somebody that works for me on my Twitter put a statement out that was totally negative. I gotta take responsibility for it ’cause they work for me, but the engagement was talking about ‘name a comedian you don’t think is funny.’ Why would I do something like that?” he asked rhetorically.
A screenshot of the since-deleted tweet shows that it was viewed at least a million times, so folks definitely saw it.
Anyway, Steve says the explanation he got from his handlers was that they were just trying to get some engagement ... but he adds they're gonna be needing new employment now.
The tweet garnered numerous responses, including Jess Hilarious who addressed last week it on the Breakfast Club. "I hope that it wasn't him though. That don't seem like Steve Harvey behavior," said Hilarious on the radio show. "In today's world right now where everything is already negative on social media ... [for] you to post something like that in this climate: 'A comedian you don't find funny?' That's crazy."
After deleting the tweet, the comedian and Family Feud host said he had to "get into some nature" and "do some fishing" in light of the situation and addressed the incident in a video uploaded on Friday (Aug. 25).
Harvey continued, “That don’t even make no damn sense. My whole brand is to be motivational, and I'm gonna turn around a say something like that? You don’t know where these young people at in they career, man. They could be coming up or anything. I’m all about positivity. I would’ve never done nothing like that.”
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