Byrne says her experience was “respectful”, but that “I think it will be a while before that film can be seen, and I think that’s right.”

Kathy Griffin and Padma Lakshmi also criticised C.K’s re-entry into comedic circles. “You know how many talented women and POC comics are knocking on doors trying to get some time in front of audiences or powerful people in this business? And Louis just gets to glide back in on his own terms? Gosh, does it payoff to be in the boys club..the white boys club,” Griffin tweeted.

But not everyone is against the comedian. His longtime friend and peer Sarah Silverman said that C.K masturbated in front of her, with her consent, when they were younger. “When we were kids, and he asked if he could masturbate in front of me, sometimes I’d go ‘F*ck yeah I want to see that!’” she told Howard Stern on his radio show. “It’s not analogous to the other women that are talking about what he did to them. He could offer me nothing. We were only just friends. So sometimes, yeah, I Wanted to see it, it was amazing. Sometimes I would say, ‘F*cking no, gross,’ and we got pizza.’”

Rose Byrne thinks it was “too soon” for Louis C.K’s comeback