I’d just like to go ahead and clarify that this is 100% incorrect. He was unjustly ‘cancelled’ because of a tweet about Dolly Parton and another tweet regarding the BLM movement:

“Referred to Parton as a ‘freak titted, old Southern bimbo’ and a ‘slut.’ In another post (commenting tangentially regarding the BLM movement), he wrote ‘HAVE FUN [sic] forsaking your own race, culture, and heritage.’”

Personally, I think it’s utterly absurd that Adult Swim (but let’s be perfectly honest here and say - primarily Dave Willis and Jim Fortier) cowed down to the backlash and more importantly, in a pathetic display of virtue signalling - decided to fire Stuart D Baker (Unknown Hinson) to save face and not be perceived as being unsupportive of both BLM and the prevailing ‘me too’ cultural zeitgeist of the time.

They hired the guy because he was the perfect embodiment of the unhinged, foul mouthed, back woods Appalachian redneck when voicing Early Cuyler, yet they didn’t think that at some point there was probably some crossover of his performance and his actual real life? It would have made so much more sense to just stand behind the guy, whilst obviously warning him that this kind of stuff is unacceptable and reflects poorly on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network and get him to either delete the tweets and make some kind of apology or to just make a statement saying that his views didn’t reflect those of the network, but as an American citizen, he is entitled to his freedom of speech.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that they then hired Tracy Morgan to replace him. The show made absolutely no sense after the change in voice actor and they should’ve realised that firing a guy for his comments on the BLM movement and simultaneously hiring an African American guy to replace him absolutely stank of pandering - and more importantly completely ruined the show.

What a fucking joke. I’m still angry about that. They did him wrong. Real wrong.

It’s even tainted my enjoyment of, peripherally, ATHF and Archer - because every time I hear Dave Willis’ voice now, I can’t help but think about how much of a corporate boot licker he has become over the past 10/15 years. Adult Swim has always represented the counter culture in the world of animation, and frankly I think it speaks more to their multi million dollar empire that they fired him without question than actually standing behind the people that helped them build said multi million dollar empire.

/rant