Viral Cinnamon Toast Crunch guy Jensen Karp hit with more abuse allegations, including in his role as executive producer on Drop the Mic

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast reports on more than a decade of alleged toxic and manipulative behavior from Karp, who is executive producer of the TBS battle rap reality competition. The reporting comes after several former co-workers and exes came forward with abuse allegations following his viral fame earlier this week. “He’s like the Loki in the gallery, comedy, and writing world,” a source tells The Daily Beast, referring to the Marvel character. “He’s not untalented, but he’s not talented enough to be doing what he’s doing because he doesn’t put the work in. He’s not a hard worker. He just kind of takes, takes, takes and then moves on. The real Loki trick is that he’s very charming. When you talk to him, he uses language really well, he’s funny enough. The charm and the moxie are disorienting at first, you get kind of lost in it. Then you peel the layers back and you realize that (he) is there to take what you’ll let him until you’re left with nothing.” Eliza Skinner, who worked for Skinner for three years on Drop the Mic, described the experience as hellish, since he would often scream at her. Comedy writer Brittani Nichols, who also spoke out in a tweet about working with Karp on the show, told The Daily Beast that she often heard Karp yelling for Skinner to come to his office instead of walking the few feet it took to reach her. Skinner alleges that when she tried to raise concerns about Karp screaming at her and the overall treatment she endured to another executive producer, she was instructed to go to Karp with her complaints and to hash it out. “It was a very difficult response,” Skinner said. “When you say, ‘Someone is abusing me that you put in power, you gave them power over me.’ And now I’m the one who has to fix it? But I did. I sat down with him with my list of complaints and said, ‘Please, you cannot do these things to me, you cannot do these things to the writers,’ and he agreed to them.” Skinner said she was eventually fired thanks to Karp in 2018. A representative from TBS deferred all comment to Drop the Mic producers CBS and Fulwell 73, the production company co-owned by The Late Late Show's James Corden and Ben Winston. CBS declined comment.