{"id":29370,"date":"2025-07-28T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29370\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:36:07","slug":"bobby-lee-says-he-was-cut-from-and-just-like-that-for-being-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29370\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Lee says he was cut from ‘And Just Like That’ for being ‘woke’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobby Lee thinks wokeness is to blame for his exit from \u201cAnd Just Like That.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian, 53, spoke to Entertainment Weekly <\/a>at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend about why he wasn\u2019t asked to reprise his role as Jackie Nee,\u00a0Carrie\u2019s (Sarah Jessica Parker) podcast cohost, on the third season of the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the woke elements of the show, they got rid of, and I think I was a part of that,\u201d\u00a0Lee stated.<\/p>\n

Bobby Lee in \u201cAnd Just Like That.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think\u00a0Sara [Ramirez]\u00a0didn\u2019t come back and some other people,\u201d he added. \u201cThey tried to put minorities in, and \u2014 I don\u2019t know. I never saw the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post has reached out to HBO for comment.<\/p>\n

Lee departed \u201cAJLT\u201d between Seasons 2 and 3, as did Ramirez, who played Miranda\u2019s (Cynthia Nixon) non-binary love interest Che D\u00edaz<\/a>, and Karen Pittman, who played Dr. Nya Wallace.<\/p>\n

Ali Stroker, Sara Ramirez, Ivan Hernandez, Bobby Lee and Sarah Jessica Parker in \u201cAnd Just Like That.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw. HBO<\/p>\n

Season 2 wrapped up Carrie\u2019s podcast storyline, which allowed the show to write off Lee and Ramirez. <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cNumber one, I don\u2019t even know why they asked,\u201d Lee told EW about being cast in the HBO Max series. \u201cAnd I was super scared to do it. Because it wasn\u2019t my brand, really. You know what I mean? But I did it. I walked through the fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobby Lee on \u201cFast Foodies.\u201d Anna Maria Lopez<\/p>\n

Lee added that getting to work with Parker, 60, was a highlight of the experience. <\/p>\n

\u201cSarah Jessica Parker is the nicest person I\u2019ve ever met. She made me feel so at ease,\u201d he shared. \u201cI like everyone on there. It was fun. I never have bad blood with anybody. You know what I mean? I am nice. I show up on time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobby Lee spotted getting coffee in Los Angeles on July 21. Phamous \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

Lee previously revealed that working on the \u201cSex and the City\u201d reboot pushed him to get sober.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah Jessica Parker in \u201cAnd Just Like That.\u201d HBO MAX<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Hawaii and I was blackout drunk and my agent called and said, \u2018They need you in New York,\u2019\u201d he recalled on Rachel Bilson\u2019s \u201cBroad Ideas\u201d podcast in 2023. \u201cThis is one of the reasons why I\u2019m sober \u2026 On the plane, I thought, \u2018I\u2019m just gonna get s\u2013t faced,\u2019 so I was in a blackout when we landed in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee said that he learned he was expected to film \u201cAJLT\u201d that day when he realized that his driver wasn\u2019t taking him to his hotel.<\/p>\n

Bobby Lee on a coffee run in Los Angeles. Phamous \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going and being so high and drunk,\u201d Lee revealed. \u201cWhen I was reading the script, I couldn\u2019t even understand what the f\u2013k it was even saying. It was a nightmare. I remember thinking, \u2018This is never going to happen again \u2014 I have to get sober.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

New episodes of \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d stream Thursdays at 9 pm ET on HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby Lee thinks wokeness is to blame for his exit from \u201cAnd Just Like That.\u201d The comedian, 53,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12374,49,48,361,23079,75,5862,5863,15977,1788,348,13690],"class_list":["post-29370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-comedians","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-sex-and-the-city","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-woke-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}