# Has Anyone Ever Been Un-Canceled? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [March 3, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654 "2023-03-03T15:17:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654/81 "2023-03-12T20:25:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > That’s my memory, and my thinking was that it showed he had a sense of humor. He hosted SNL after the story came out, and his monolog was basically a skit about the audience hating him, and refusing to laugh or applaud. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/87EC-IrH3m0/maxresdefault.jpg "Rob Lowe Monologue: Seeking Applause - Saturday Night Live") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87EC-IrH3m0) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654/82 "2023-03-12T21:57:15Z")
Please refresh my memory, what was Rob Lowes’ scandal/downfall? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654/83 "2023-03-12T22:02:57Z")
He was video taped having sex with two women, one of whom turned out to be 16. He was in Georgia at the time, where the age of consent was ~14, so legally he was clear, but it was still a bad look for him, and he lost some work over it. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654/84 "2023-03-12T22:59:05Z")
Ah, thanks. That was before the internet so I never registered this story. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654/85 "2023-03-13T03:48:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > He was video taped having sex with two women, one of whom turned out to be 16. He was in Georgia at the time, where the age of consent was ~14, so legally he was clear, but it was still a bad look for him, and he lost some work over it. I’ve said this before, but here goes: It was not a crime. It was not Polanski; it was not Cosby or Weinstein. The two women were the ones who set up the video camera – IIRC, Lowe didn’t know he was being filmed – and they gleefully shared the video with a _lot_ of people. According to Rolling Stone, the video was embarrassing for Lowe, not least because it mostly featured his bare, in-need-of-a-personal-trainer, ass, but it also proved that what happened was not a rape. It’s not even like he skated on charges, because there was nothing to charge him with. As you said, 16 was legal in Georgia at that time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-been-un-canceled/980654.md?page=4)