A frequent Gutfeld! panelist is accusing the show of going “woke” and exploiting its guests, after he was kicked off the show for alleged harassment of a Fox News employee.
Comedian Tyler Fischer, who made over a dozen appearances on Greg Gutfeld’s Fox News late-night show, anounced in a lengthy post on X that he will no longer be a part of the show .
“What was my woke crime? I asked an employee out for coffee. Yes, that is why I’m off the show,” Fischer claimed on X. The comic claimed to have proof of his interactions with the employee, adding that “it is not illegal or against any rules at Fox to ask a grown adult for coffee. Fischer adds he is “seeking legal counsel for defamation” as a result.
Fischer later told The Daily Mail that his exchange with the FNC employee was a “flirty little interaction” in which he approached a female employee at her desk while in the building for his January 30 appearance on the show. Shortly after, ‘Security grabbed me and I was escorted me off the floor,” he claims. From there, he was escorted to the Gutfeld! set for his appearance. According to Fischer, his previously scheduled booking on the show was cancelled shortly afterwards.
The Daily Mail also cites another version of the story from a source said to “have knowledge of the situation”: “Fischer grabbed the woman’s phone and put his number in it forcibly, before returning it and ‘demand[ing] to know she had the number now,’” the outlet says, quoting the source as saying the interaction “wasn’t friendly.”
Fischer is also took the opportunity to call out how Gutfeld! treats its recurring guest panelists.
“I have been on for nearly 2 years without being paid a dime,” he wrote. “They pay the rotating guests ZERO even though we work our asses off and to prep for an episode we work just as hard as Greg and the 2 regular guests who all get paid. You are treated like an intern not like a professional guest.”
“We all travel, give up work to be there and write our own material,” he added. “Not to mention, they will throw you under the bus and take the side of a woke, indoctrinated radical feminist instead of their loyal guests.”
It also appears Fischer’s rift with Gutfeld has found its way past the doors of Fox News proper. Less than an hour after making his claims against Gutfeld! on X, Fischer announced in another post that he will no longer be appearing at two previously planned dates of Gutfeld’s “Gutfeld Live 2025” comedy tour: April 26 in Knoxville, TN and April 27 in Spartanburg, SC. Later that night, he shared the cancellation email his team allegedly received.
Fischer’s last appearance on Gutfeld! aired February 3.
The guy wasn’t funny at all and when he was on FNC promoting his stupid Fox Nation special, he came off as a jerk. Probably was obnoxious to the poor employee.