As you may have heard,
Uber has not exactly been getting
a five-star rating recently.
They've been dealing for months with accusations
of sexual harassment and discrimination,
which is why this week the board of Uber
announced that cofounder and CEO Travis Kalanick
will be stepping away for a while, all right?
And it was especially awkward
because his dramatic exit did not go as planned.
You know, he was trying to be crazy with it.
He was like, "I don't need any of you,
"so good-bye! Ha-ha.
"In two minutes.
"Yeah.
"Hold on, n-now it's five minutes.
"Hold on.
"Hol.. W-Why is he calling me?
"Why's... Hello? Where are you at?
"Yeah. I'm at the Uber building.
What... How do you not know where the Uber building is?"
Now, uh...
(applause, cheering)
Now...
now, after Kalanick's announcement,
Uber had a staff meeting
to discuss the need to change its culture
and to add a second woman to its board of directors.
Good ideas.
Now, at the very moment when you're talking about sexism,
what's the one thing
a dude should definitely not make a joke about?
NEWSWOMAN:
obtained by Yahoo at a staff meeting,
between Uber board members Arianna Huffington
and David Bonderman.
(audience groaning)
Whoa. You can tell this guy works for Uber
because he does not know when to shut up.
Seriously, how stupid is he?
The sexist insult is bad enough, but interrupting a woman
who is talking about sexism to make a sexist insult is...
That's like Bill Cosby trying to slip Quaaludes to the judge
at his trial-- that's what that's like.
Like, even Bill Cosby knows better than that.
Even he knows better.
Although, although, yesterday, out of nowhere,
Cosby did something that was, like...
he was... he was coming out of court,
and he did something that was
As he was leaving the court,
Cosby mimicked one of his characters, Fat Albert.
MAN: Mr. Cosby, any comment about the jury's deliberation?
COSBY: Hey, hey, hey!
MAN: Hey, hey, hey!
(laughter)
What are you doing?
Like, what are you doing?
Now I can't stop imagining Fat Albert roofie'ing Mushmouth.
(laughter)
So... so, that was weird.
And this Uber guy making that sexist joke,
that was... that was weird, too.
I mean, guys, can we all just agree?
It's 2017.
Men like this, saying these things about women,
they don't belong on corporate boards, you know?
-They belong... -(cheering, applause)
Yeah, they don't.
They... they belong in the White House.
For more on this, I'm joined by someone
who's been in many Ubers-- Michelle Wolf, everybody.
(cheering, applause, whistling)
Michelle... I have to get your thoughts on this.
Uh, what do you think?
Well, Trevor, looking at this whole Uber saga,
I'm just glad this board member resigned.
Yeah, obviously because he's sexist.
No. 'Cause he's an idiot.
The least he could have done is play it off.
Like, "Women talk too much...
"is what a sexist would say,
"and that's not me, I'm not sexist.
I saw
Yeah, and you know what, Michelle,
the truth is, his joke wasn't even funny.
I mean, women talking too much
is such an old, played-out stereotype.
(laughs): Oh, no, my friend.
That stereotype is still somehow everywhere.
It's like Ryan Seacrest-- it just keeps popping up.
The truth is, men talk way more than women.
Statistically.
Professors at Princeton and Brigham Young,
two very smart schools,
did a study about how much women talk in meetings versus men.
And guess what they found?
Men talk more than women.
Men treat talking like they treat farting.
When
but when a woman does it, it's like, "Ew!
Burn that farting whore!"
Aw, geez, Michelle, you have some mean ex-boyfriends.
Ex-boyfriends? That was my grandfather.
It seems like a lot of men just don't like when women talk.
Maybe that's why they interrupt us so much.
And it doesn't matter how important of a woman you are.
Even the women on the Supreme Court
get interrupted more often than the men do.
That's not cool.
Like, stuff like this is exactly why people got so mad
when they saw Kamala Harris getting interrupted recently.
When Senator Kamala Harris,
the former attorney general of California,
pressed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee
last week, she was scolded.
Then, at today's hearing, the same thing happened.
I'm asking, when you knew that you
-would be asked these questions -I'm unable to answer the...
and you would rely on that policy,
-Chairman... -did you not ask your staff to show you
-the policy that would be the basis -(loud tapping)
for your refusing to answer the majority of questions...
Chairman, the witness should be allowed to answer the question.
Senators will allow the chair to control the hearing.
Senator Harris, let him answer.
That is so frustrating!
Every time a woman gets close to finishing,
men are like, "That's enough, we're done here."
(laughter)
No!
I wasn't done!
Let me finish!
I feel like you're not talking about the Senate anymore?
Oh...! Well done, Detective Trevor.
(laughter)
The point is, men have had their turn to talk,
and they used it to get us into wars
and financial crises and window-less vans.
So if there's anyone who needs to be interrupted,
it's you!
So just shut up for a second and let us drive!
(cheering, applause)
-Thank you very much, Michelle. -I wasn't done!
Let us drive the metaphorical car that is society!
Okay, I should have been done--
that would have been a better out.
Let's get to those ads!
(laughter)
You can talk now.
Thank you, Michelle. Michelle Wolf, everyone.