Cancel Culture Zombies: Can Chris D’Elia Resurrect His Career?
On March 18, 2021, Chris D’Elia began recording Episode 178 of his podcast, Congratulations , at 10:46pm, much later than his usual schedule, but then again, the past nine months had been anything but usual for him. “This is a late night one, so you never know,” he said, “sometimes they go off the rails, and going off the rails can be a good thing, but it can also be a fucking dangerous thing for me—as I've learned in the last few months.” It might not seem all that surprising that Chris D’Elia got canceled. In fact, he used to joke about it all the time. On Congratulations it wasn’t unusual for him to follow up an off-color comment with “I’m probably going to get canceled for saying that.” At the time, his career was on the upswing, rapidly gaining traction with the successful release of his third standup special, No Pain , on Netflix and a slew of acting roles in the works, including Zack Snyder’s zombie movie, Army of the Dead . As with many celebrities before him, the