The powers that be at Netflix have canceled comedian Michelle Wolf’s show mere months after its debut, according to a Fox News report on Friday.
In a statement, a representative for the company confirmed to Fox News, “We are not ordering additional episodes of the series.”
“Viewership numbers were apparently behind Netflix’s decision to drop both shows, sources told Deadline,” as Fox News reported.
The reference to “both shows” refers to Wolf’s program along with “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.”
In one episode of her Netflix show, Wolf went after pro-life believers when she declared, “Look, access to abortion is good and important. Some people say abortion is ‘killing a baby.’ It’s not. It’s stopping a baby from happening. It’s like ‘Back to the Future,’ and abortion is the DeLorean. And everyone loves DeLoreans.”
She also delivered this bit of “comedy”: “Pro-life is a propaganda term that isn’t real, like healthy ice cream and handsome testicles.”
In the same show, she performed a “salute to abortions” — and infamously capped off the segment with “God bless America, and God bless abortions.”
Wolf has gone on vulgar rants this year against first daughter Ivanka Trump — and, in the spring, she went after White House press secretary Sarah Sanders at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Part of Wolf’s diatribe against Sanders — with the latter calmly sitting right near her, on the dais — included these comments: “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”
She also said this: “And I’m never really sure what to call Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you know? Is it Sarah Sanders, is it Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is it Cousin Huckabee, is it Auntie Huckabee Sanders? What’s Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women? Oh, I know. Ann Coulter.”
Here are a few of just the many tweets that are still flooding Twitter on Saturday about the Wolf and Netflix development:
Netflix Cancels Michelle Wolf's Talk Show After Less Than Three Months https://t.co/I9vlh2H8k0 pic.twitter.com/LtlydLw0Yq
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 18, 2018
Aborted… #ByeFelicia https://t.co/L1ppN6vazS
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 18, 2018
Netflix cancels comedian Michelle Wolf's show https://t.co/1Pwbq7BV2m
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 18, 2018
Exclusive: Netflix cancelled Michelle Wolf's "The Break" tonight… and the entire writing staff — and even the showrunners — found out via Twitter https://t.co/NXH9eFpnPa
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) August 18, 2018
Michelle Wolf fired https://t.co/gj59kNsE08
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 18, 2018
So THANKFUL Netflix cancelled Michelle Wolf
— katherine schantz (@chante516) August 18, 2018
.@michelleisawolf got her Netflix show cancelled ??? #Karma
— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) August 18, 2018
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