Chris Glover is an the out gay reporter for Canada’s CBC. This week, he filed a police report after having his ear licked by comedian Boyd Banks during a live broadcast.
Glover was at Comedy Bar in Toronto reporting on the event when Banks crept up behind him, nuzzled his shoulder, and began licking his ear in a sexual manner.
“Things are getting a little awkward out here,” he said during the broadcast, “so I’m going to pass it back to you, Dwight.”
To which Glover’s co-worker, anchor Dwight Drummond, replied: “Yeah, that’s a little strange. It’s really unnecessary. Just move away from that gentleman.”
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CBC released a statement about the matter, saying:
While some observers argued the actions amounted to an assault or sexual assault, Glover told The Canadian Press he would leave it up to police to make that determination. What’s certain, he said, was how the incident made him feel. “I, as a journalist, was just trying to do my job,” Glover said. “I feel deeply disturbed by what happened. I still feel like it was completely uncalled for. The whole thing just really made me feel really awkward and uncomfortable and embarrassed.”
Meanwhile, Banks has issued an apology, taking complete responsibility and calling himself an “idiot” for what he did.
“There is no excuse for my behavior last night,” he said. “I’m guilty of everything. I am an idiot. I want to apologize to the standup community in Canada and of course the reporter, who was doing his job.”
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Wicked Dickie
Nothing worse than an unfunny comedian.
@HarryB
If do not take into consideration that comedian is really ugly i dont think it is worth to file a police report.
Rock-N-RollHS
Is this what qualifies as sexual assault?? Lol. More like asshole behavior. Nip that sh*t in the bud, kid. Grow some balls.
icunow75
This wouldn’t even be an issue if the comedian was a hot studly man …the sad truth is the people who get into trouble doing this sorta thing are average men or non-attractive men …Have we heard of a gorgeous man being charged with sexual assault unless they are being extorted for money which usually means they are famous
Jboo
Nah, if this was a woman nobody would think twice about it being sexual assault. Either it’s all okay, or it’s not okay. Why is it so difficult for you to hold somebody accountable for their poor decision? Actions have consequences people, grow up.
inbama
Like Circe transforming men into pigs, Me Too is turning gay men into women – whiny WEAK women.
Juanjo
It is definitely an assault & battery as defined by law. Depending on how the statute is written, it could be sexual assault. As for growing some balls, I wonder how you would react if you were doing your job and someone went up and did that to you?
MuslimSlutBox
@JuanJo. I’d at least get a BJ out of it.
Vince
For f*ck sake it’s just comedy ya uptight millennial. It got everyone laughing which was the point. If you want serious go report on a car accident.
DCguy
So in other words, you are now telling anybody that it is fine to come up and lick your face whenever you’re out in a bar or restaurant?
Chrisk
@DCguy. Here’s what a man would do. Hey dude back off. End of story. Here’s what you don’t do. Run to the police.
DCguy
@Chrisk
Fine, so translation, you are saying it’s ok for strangers to come up and lick you in random restaurants and you won’t call the police. No problem, just letting all of them out there know you’re fair game.
Juanjo
Stupid defense of completely inappropriate behaviour.
iamru2
Yuk, but a police report? Please! Let them concentrate on real crimes you little pansy!
scotshot
You calling someone a repulsive bigoted name is the assault.
Bob LaBlah
Well, if the ol’ geezer gets turned on by breaded bun twinks then hey, who are we to judge? I do hope the traumatized little queen has deleted his older/younger babies-being-deposited-after-water-sports vids from his partying days off of xhamster before he filed that lawsuit.
Kangol
The creep is lucky the reporter didn’t take that mic and knock him back into the last century. You don’t and cannot lick or touch or feel on people you don’t know, comedian or not.
QueerTruth
A police report? Give me a break. Seriously.
Jboo
Why not? I’m not being sarcastic, I mean it literally – what objectively reasonable facts do you have for not filing one? What are the point of laws regarding unwanted sexual contact if not for this very reason?
Juanjo
Why not? You want to wait until he ruffies someone and rapes them in the bathroom? Are you arguing that it is appropriate for someone to go up to a complete stranger and simply stick their tongue in their ear? If so, how about if he sticks his hand in the man’s pants? How about if he shoves a finger up the guy’s ass? The kid was on camera broadcasting. What should he have done, turned around and clocked the scum? Then he is committing a crime.
Why should anyone put up with that sort of behavior? Why should anyone not be sanctioned for engaging in it?
isa
yech. cute reporter tho
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PoetDaddy
I wonder if the reporter ever considered saying “Stop that!” Just so everyone was clear. I’m sure the police have other things to do than handle misdemeanor ear-licking episodes at comedy clubs. Wash your ear, kiddo, and move on.
swamp bubble
Something tells me you’ve had experience in making twinks uncomfortable.
Jboo
Hey PoetDaddy, why are you fixated on what the reporter does in this situation? It sounds like you don’t hold the comedian accountable for his actions, and that’s a shame. I think that’s pretty telling about who you are as a person. How hard is it NOT to lick someone’s ear without their consent?
inbama
Yes, it is “telling about who” Poetdaddy “is as a person” – a self-respecting gay MAN and not a whiny, lily-livered narcissist playing the victim card for attention.
Juanjo
So a man doing his job and in the middle of a broadcast, should stop everything and scream”stop it”. I tell you what, douchebags who think it is appropriate to come up and stick their tongue in another person’s ear when they do not even know them, need to discover there are legal repercussions for that sort of behavior.
Polaro
Snowflake overreaction.
MuslimSlutBox
What’s next? Turn yourself in to the police and admit that you were thinking about sucking-off the guy at the bar and now you don’t trust yourself alone with your own thoughts? “Arrest me officer before I do something completely legal”. Sounds like a bunch of hysterical women. These queens on here should STFU.
Thad
It wasn’t until last year, when Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins took to licking opponents, that this was remotely considered acceptable.
Call me retro. I don’t like it.
Herman75
I don’t like it either. Creepy ol’ bald dude. The kissing was ick ick ick.
OzJosh
My only question is: why are these Millennials so weak and pathetic?! If this reporter had any balls at all he’d have just told the comedian he was being creepy and should back off – or else. If he was smart, he could have done it in a way that was also light and funny, in keeping with the (intended) mood of the piece. But a short, sharp rebuke would have been justified and perfectly acceptable as well. Not being able to control the piece he’s presenting merely indicates that he’s not really up to the job. And whimpering to management over such an incident only underlines that. CBC may well have followed through by treating the incident with all the seriousness that today’s workplace ethical guidelines demand, but I’d be surprised (and actually disappointed) if they didn’t also privately mark the reporter as a whiney little wimp.
Jboo
Millenials are so weak and pathetic? Because they believe grown adults should be held accountable for their actions? Your entire post is dedicated to excusing a grown man for his own actions, and that’s shameful.
radiooutmike
Why are people getting down on the reporter?
If that reporter was a young woman, I don’t think anyone here would bat an eye at a young woman reporting this guy to the police? Also, it was a comedy club not a gay bar. Furthermore, sticking your tongue in someone’s ear is overtly sexual. Especially, if you’re doing it to unsettle someone.
PinkoOfTheGange
It is the police report. He could of dined on this thing for months but no he has go tattle to the teacher.
He isn’t a young woman so strike that straw man.
And finally a comedian in a comedy club with a live TV feed…that is at best a pantomime of anything but never sexual. Did he go too far, well sure. but the kid has been a passive aggressive woosie about the whole thing.
swamp bubble
Because most of the people that comment on this site are that creepy old loser pathetically licking at the pretty young twink, and don’t want to be tattled on when they do the same.
PinkoOfTheGange
@ swamp bubble
As a Twink (reformed) that presenter is no twink.
Second I clearly state that the joke was in poor taste (as has the comedian).
But reporting the act to police is an over reaction the size of burning the house down because a fly got in.
Xzamilloh
Did I miss something? I don’t think it’s ever been okay to just randomly lick someone. Yeah, that’s not cool. Like, at all. Especially if you don’t know what that person has… some idiot looking for his/her moment with a cold sore comes trying to slobber all over you, now the side of your face looks like a dirty plate from Olive Garden? No, ma’am.
iamru2
No one here so far has said it’s ok to to that. The problem most have is the little snots overeating and filing a police report.
Polaro
No, its not cool, but we don’t call the police on ever infraction. So, is the intent to put this guy in jail for being stupid?
Dashing Partycrasher
LOL. Well said, Xz!
PinkoOfTheGange
“That person” had been interviewed by the presenter earlier in the show. He is one of the comedians.
Xzamilloh
I don’t give a damn if he was known. Don’t lick ppl….period. And for the ones saying he overreacted by filing a police report, you know what prevents overreactions? Not doing stupid shit like licking someone. I’d be inclined to agree with some of you if there wasn’t this gross insistence on putting the onus on the reporter and acting like he needed to “man up”
This is that instance of “toxic masculinity” that I used to eye roll at but now see validity in it.
TimothyBeauchamp
The filthiest persons alive licked ALL my furniture and I didn’t call the police, so…
Jboo
If it was a cat, you should have. Cats are monsters.
Brian
This guy didn’t go that enough. He should have given him the greatest gift a mother could give.
John
I understand the “Me Too” movement, but really; a police report on a comedian in a comedy club.
He did NOT grab the guys testicles or prostate, he was trying to be funny. Yes, he misfired on the comedy aspect, but get a sense of humor man. Could he not of just said, not cool dude and moved on?
scotshot
How many times did he actually get licked? It appears that most of the contacts were either his nose or chin.
Stay away from parties.
MuslimSlutBox
“Stay away from parties”. Absolutely. I think it’s time to have a hard look at banning parties altogether because of all the fun people have at those things. And the booze. Well, that’s just a slip-N-slide to illegal behavior such as staring at attractive people or even laughing. Laughing is one of the warning signs that something fun is going to go-down. (and 90% of fun things are potentially illegal). All of this has to stop. MeToo says so. Just stop it. No means no. No more laughing. Laughing has consequences.
Gary Q VV
This was obviously completely out of line. Technically it was a minor sexual assault, but a police report was a bit too harsh of a punishment. Glover, had Banks been drop-dead gorgeous, you might had ask him for a date.
Polaro
It might be considered assault in that it was unwanted contact. You concept of sexual is weird.
Jboo
Technically it was a murder, but life in prison was a bit too harsh of a punishment. That’s essentially your line of reasoning. Hold the comedian accountable – nobody held up a gun and said “Lick this man’s ear immediately or I’ll blow your brains out.” Unfortunately he made a bad choice. Choices (good or bad) have consequences. End of story. If you don’t want to file a report when someone licks your ear, that’s your choice.
Pro-tip: If you have to resort to ‘technicalities’, you’ve already lost the argument.
Ashke113
So he got licked on live tv by a comedian, the poor little thing had to file a police report because his balls obviously haven’t dropped after puberty and he can’t handle doing reports from parties or certain areas. Grow up and stop acting like he unzipped your pants and took a run at you, you whiny little crybaby. It wasn’t sexual or any type of harrassement it was just someone being fun and spur of the moment in a comedy setting which by the looks of the comments here so far alot of millenials need to crawl back up where they were born from because they can’t handle life……
Josh447
It was a creepy sexually turned on ugly old fart taking a fantasy out on a cute young human being that turned him on. Old creepy guy would not have done that action to another creepy ugly guy because he wouldn’t have been turned on. Cute guy should have slapped the face off that creep. This was live on television sexually motivated act. If you think it’s okay you’re way off base.
swamp bubble
Um okay I’m not normally the one side against the comedian, but this was just creepy, there’s nothing comedic about an old pathetic perv licking a dudes neck. He should have decked him.
Polaro
No, he should have used his words and told him to stop. If he did not, then he could have physically defended himself.
Jboo
I’m with you. Swing away. But just one punch, the second wouldn’t be justified in a court of law.
SPDuffy
I’m surprised at a lot of the comments here criticizing the reporter for filing a report. This kind of creepy behavior will never stop if the creeps don’t get the message that there are real negative consequences. So bravo to the reporter. Maybe this creep – and other creeps – will think twice next time.
Polaro
I can only hope everyone you know calls the police every time you get a little too drunk, touch someone in any way, or step out of line.
Dashing Partycrasher
Licking someone without their permission is unacceptable in any situation, not to mention on live TV. But had the reporter been a real pro, he would have immediately asked the creepy comedian to stop, or at least move out of his way. Instead, he smiled and almost laughed, which unintentionally sends the wrong message that the guy’s behavior was just silly instead of very wrong.
And instead of filing a police report, the reporter should have asked the guy for an apology immediately after going off-air. I hope this is a big learning experience for both of them.
Jboo
Had the comedian been a real pro, he wouldn’t have sexually assaulted the reporter to begin with. There’s nothing unprofessional about accessing laws and resources designed to deal with precisely this situation.
By the way, how does an apology fix anything? Does it undo what he did? What is a greater deterrent – a criminal charge, or a do-nothing forced apology? It’s not difficult to NOT lick someone’s ear without consent. Stop blaming the reporter and fixating on his response, START fixating on what the comedian did.
calvinsmelliott
Agree.
iamru2
Jboo that is not sexual assault I know a woman who was sexually assaulted she was raped!
Josh447
To many, licking an ear is a very intimate sexual romantic gesture. The ugly guy obviously had sexual intentions toward the young cute guy. If that ugly old geezer had done that to a young straight guy you may have seen him get decked. I can’t stand slobber on my ear face etc. If I’m going to let somebody do it to me it better be somebody I really really dig. A police report is a mere slap on the hand, I most likely would have at the minimum shoved him out of my space along with some choice words.
niles
Look at all of the comments using the words “old” “ugly” etc. It’s true that people only file charges against those they find unattractive.
sweetnovember
I saw the video. It’s creepy and has nothing to do with the guy being old and not attractive. Some people don’t like be touched by complete strangers.
surreal33
Let’s unpack this situation a creepy, pervert, put his body fluid on you and it is no big deal? This is probably why women don’t report sexual assault because of the attitude displayed here.
There is absolutely nothing funny about someone touching you without your consent. Let alone someone putting there saliva on you without your consent that is assault no matter how you tried to sugar coat it. Reading between the lines the situation whispers it is okay if gay guy inappropriately touches you because you are both gay right? WRONG!!!
calvinsmelliott
Whatever happened to saying, “Back of f*cker or I’m going to destroy your face”? This “reporter” is a bitch. Stand up for yourself. That guy was heckling him and trying to get a response. Such a huge waste of police resources. What a sissy.
irbaboon
It was all in good fun
justgeo
Awh just rip the geezers tongue out and wipe your ass with it. Ugly MF”R.