Comedian Aries Spears responds after making disparaging comments about Lizzo.
Spears recently appeared on ‘Art Of Dialogue,’ where he made a few distasteful remarks about Lizzo. During the interview, the host brought up Lizzo making great music. Spears then took the opportunity to share his opinions about the singer.
“Lizzo? I can’t get past the fact that she looks like the sh*t emoji,” Spears said. “She got a very pretty face, but she keeps showing her body off n*gga, like c’mon, yo. I’m sorry. Listen, I ain’t the most in shape n*gga in the world, but when you funny and you got swagger and confidence and you decent looking. I think I’m at least handsome, you get p*ssy. But a woman that’s built like a plate of mashed potatoes, you’re in trouble.”
However, as he anticipated, the video quickly circulated on social media and brought on backlash to Spears. Fans called out the ‘Mad TV’ actor for his statement about Lizzo.
On Saturday, Spears posted a video on Instagram addressing the controversy.
“I KNEW IT WAS COMING!!!” he wrote in the caption. “If the people that are angry particularly women really paid attention to the art of dialogue interview one I even called myself out for needing to lose weight and two more importantly the main point was celebrating the wrong thing there’s a lot of hypocritical women who also bash men at laughters expense but if you’re going to celebrate sister hood while Lizzo’s confidence is commendable it’s also dangerous.”
