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Wicked star Marissa Bode has addressed the online response to her character Nessarose. In a five-and-a-half-minute TikTok posted on Friday, the actress distinguished “goofy, harmless” house jokes from ...

“Wicked” actor Marissa Bode is calling out disability jokes made by people online aimed at her character Nessarose in the film. Over the weekend, Bode, 24, shared a five-minute TikTok video speaking ...

"It is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking." Marissa Bode is trying to change attitudes toward her Wicked character's disability for good. The actress, who uses a ...

The Office producer Ash Atalla has admitted that in recent years, he’s questioned whether it was right for him to have had Ricky Gervais make jokes about his disability. At the insistence of Atalla, ...

"At the end of the day, me, Marissa, is the person that is still disabled and in a wheelchair," says Bode. "So, it is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking." As ...

In the week since its release, Wicked has become a genuine phenomenon in the United States. The success of the musical has led to a variety of jokes and memes on the internet, but one of the movie’s ...

Marissa Bode is addressing the derogatory comments made about her “Wicked” character. Bode, who portrays the character Nessarose, the younger sister of Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, posted a five-minute ...

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Kelley Flanagan from Peter Weber's season of 'The Bachelor' just issued a statement after joking about faking a disability for good parking. Here's what she wrote. “What’s the funniest prank you’ve ...

A bride-to-be has taken the extreme step of disinviting her own mother from her wedding after she made a joke deemed so insensitive it prompted one social media user to brand her "a monster." Dark ...

(CNN) — Last weekend, Shane Gillis took a gamble that didn’t pay off on the stage of “Saturday Night Live,” when he dunked on the LGBTQ and disability communities to a frosty reception — including ...