as we said in the press that i was invited to speak to the transgender employees of netflix and i refuse that it's not true if they had invited me i would have accepted it although i am confused about what we are speaking about i said what i said and boy i heard what you said my god how could i not you said you want a safe working environment at netflix well it seems like i'm the only one that can't go to the office anymore [Applause] i want everyone in this audience to know that even though the media frames us that it's me versus that community that is not what it is do not blame the lbgtq community for any of this [ __ ] this has nothing to do with them it's about corporate interest and what i can say and what i cannot say for the record and i need you to know this everyone i know from that community has been nothing but loving and supporting so i don't know what all this nonsense is about in summer 2020 when the whole world shut down i was outside doing shows my neighbor had a cornfield and he let me throw shows there and people came from all over the country some people came from around the world to see those shows the best comedians on earth came to my home and broke bread with me and we lived our lives we found a way to keep moving forward [Applause] [Music] i made a whole documentary about it the first night of those shows was a piece that some of you might have seen it was called 846 and it dealt with the death the murder of george floyd this film that i made was invited to every film festival in the united states and some of those invitations i accepted and when this controversy came out about the closer they began disinviting me from these film festivals and now today not a film company not a movie studio not a film festival nobody will touch this film thank god for teds randalls of netflix he's the only one that didn't cancel me yet to the transgender community i am more than willing to give you an audience but she will not summon me i am not bending to anybody's demands and if you want to meet with me i'd be more than willing to but i have some conditions [Applause] first of all you cannot come if you have not watched my special from beginning to end you must come to a place of my choosing and a time of my choosing and thirdly you must admit that hannah gatsby is not funny [Applause] i desperately want people to see this movie but i understand why investors would be nervous since nobody will touch it i'll tell you what i'll do i will make it available for all of you in 10 american cities going on sale in the next few days you will be able to see this movie in its entirety and you can see what they're trying to obstruct you from seeing and you can judge for yourself but you cannot have this conversation and exclude my voice from it that is only fair you have to answer the question am i canceled or not then let's go thank you very much and good night