David Cross says that for Netflix, pulling W/ Bob & David's blackface episode "was an easy, albeit thoughtless, decision to make"

The Daily Beast

"I was very surprised and disappointed," Cross tells The Last Laugh podcast. "I know everybody involved with it was. Netflix isn’t in the ‘we want to be friends with Bob and David business.’ They’re in the international business of not upsetting people and continuing to get subscribers. So it’s an easy, albeit thoughtless, decision to make. They’re not interested in having a discussion about it. They’ve got a business to run. And so we were just the unfortunate recipients of that purge of anything that remotely, even in a tertiary way, approaches that idea. So it’s all gone, it’s just gone. They scrubbed the whole episode. They didn’t even just take that sketch out. I mean, there are like three or four layers to the humor in it. And it’s not somebody who’s being offensive or doing it to be offensive, nor is the sketch itself trying to be offensive. And it actually makes a positive statement about the Black cop. I mean, it’s just thoughtless and they just said, I’m not interested in discussing what it means, get rid of it.”