Apr. 3, 2023 "TikTok Won’t Let Bobby Lee Forget That He Couldn’t Stop Telling Podcasters He Had Sex with a Young Girl in Tijuana": Today I found this article by Keegan Kelly on Cracked.com. I was on Google and this story was trending:
“I’m going to be completely honest with you, this story could ruin my career.”
Stretching back to 2014, MADtv alumnus Bobby Lee has told the same story
on at least three podcasts
and one SiriusXM show,
and the anecdote hit the same beats in every iteration — Lee, long before he was famous, goes on a trip to Tijuana as a sex tourist. He walks down a dimly lit backstreet called “Hooker Alley,” where sex workers commonly proposition American visitors.
“You don’t know how old they are,” he tells his hosts. At the end of the alley, he sees a young sex worker shyly facing a brick wall. He approaches her, and describes her appearance as “like Natalie Portman in The Professional.”
Lee takes the young girl to the Miami Hotel, where he pays $10 for a room and is handed a towel with a condom and lubricant. Once in the room, Lee describes his companion as “cold” and “shaking” before he penetrates her, saying that, in the moonlight, “I see her face, and I can see tears coming down her face and snot bubbles in her nose.” Then, the payoff: “I did what anyone else would do — I power-f---ed her.”
Lee has told this exact story on the
Opie and Anthony SiriusXM show,
DVDASA, Theo Von’s This Past Weekend
and on his own podcast, TigerBelly.
The story was retroactively removed from the DVDASA and TigerBelly episodes,
but unofficial fan channels have continuously re-uploaded the clip from those podcasts in its entirety before the videos are inevitably removed.
Though some of these recitations are separated by almost a decade, the story stays the same — Lee, then a waiter in his early 20s, is despondent over his lack of dating success, so he and his co-workers make regular trips to Tijuana to buy sex. Each time, Lee makes a point to describe the girl’s trepidation and her very young appearance, including the reference to a 13-year-old Portman, but later backpedals and insists that she was an adult, despite his constant declaration that he “doesn’t know how old she is.” In every retelling, the girl cries.
The story has received significant attention in online communities since Lee first started testing it on the podcast circuit.
The common defense among Lee’s fans when a breakdown of the story goes viral on Reddit, YouTube, Twitter or TikTok is to claim that it’s a fabrication created by a stand-up comedian on a comedy podcast to get laughs.
However, nothing about Lee's cautious buildup to the story in any of these instances clearly indicates that he’s “doing a bit,”
and he even asked his hosts on DVDASA, “Why are you laughing?” when he described the scene in the hotel room.
In only one telling of the story does Lee receive notable pushback
— Von on This Past Weekend listens to the story with visible discomfort, recoiling at the “power-f---” punchline.
When Von starts to press Lee on the details of the story, Lee seems to grow defensive. Von calls out Lee for describing the sex worker as a “girl” at the beginning of the account while fixating on her youthful appearance, a point which Von’s producer corroborates. In the video clip of the episode, Lee’s demeanor visibly changes as he repeatedly insists that the prostitute was “of age.”
Still, the only account of anything that may or may not have transpired in Mexico has come from Lee himself, who has since claimed that the story was a comical fabrication. Back in January, Lee’s friend and collaborator Ethan Klein of the H3H3 podcast says that he confronted Lee after clips of the story that Lee had been telling for nearly a decade began to go viral, saying that Lee told him, “It was a joke. … It was the weird kind of dark, f---ed-up comedy.”
“What can I actually do?” Klein asked his audience. “The only source of this information is from Bobby.”
Despite Lee’s backtracking following the backlash and the apparent attempts to scrub the story from multiple podcast archives, the Tijuana story isn’t going anywhere — compilations of his numerous accounts continue to circulate on social media, with many users attempting to draw parallels between Lee’s story and the documented attempts by his friend and former collaborator Chris D’Elia to elicit sexually suggestive photos from underage girls.
Whether or not Lee’s story was true, it’s frustrating that none of the hosts on these shows pressed Lee to any meaningful degree to clarify the facts except for Von’s uncomfortable questioning.
If this was just a bit of black comedy played uncomfortably seriously, Lee could have elucidated the story as creative fiction on air, instead of backtracking years later with an explanation that some members of the comedy community have clearly found unconvincing.
Apr. 6, 2023 "Bobby Lee responds to backlash over resurfaced Tijuana prostitution story: 'It's not real'": Today I found this article by Naledi Ushe on USA Today:
Bobby Lee has responded to backlash over resurfaced videos of the comedian repeatedly telling a story, most recently on a 2020 podcast episode, about an encounter with a prostitute in Tijuana, Mexico.
The story details Lee — who is currently on a Bad Friends tour with Andrew Santino — going to Tijuana and scouting for a prostitute in "hooker alley," where he found a "girl that seemed scared" and picked her to have sex with. He goes on to describe the woman as "crying" before he speeds up the process to "get it over with."
The 51-year-old has been accused on social media of confessing to a child rape after his past comments began re-circulating in early April. On April 5, Lee addressed the criticism on his "TigerBelly" podcast, noting he has been encouraged to not speak up about the story in order to not bring attention to it – but claiming the story was made up.
"These last couple of weeks have been so bad, I just need to say something. … It's easily explainable," the comedian began.
Lee said in 2013 he was forced to do press after not selling tickets to his second show at Carolines on Broadway comedy club in New York City. When Lee saw "Opie and Anthony" on his schedule, he recalled telling his team, "I don't want to do that show. It's just not my brand. It's edgy, shock jock radio."
The following year, he was scheduled to go on the same radio show and Lee said he decided to do "self-deprecation" and "crazy" jokes to avoid being skewered by the hosts.
The "Reservation Dogs" actor said he combined two unsuccessful jokes from his tour to form the Tijuana story.
The first bit was about going on a date with a young girl who looked like 12-year-old Natalie Portman from "Léon: The Professional"
and the second joke was about speeding up the process of sex with his girlfriend who started crying about her recently deceased grandma during the act.
"I was encouraged to say crazy stuff without thinking about it," Lee said of why he told the story. "When I listen back to it now it puts a chill down my spine."
The comedian continued, "I changed with society and I look at that story and feel guilt over it. It's terrible. It was stupid to say it as many times as I said it."
There are all these comments on Reddit that are saying that this story doesn't sound like a joke. This sounds like a true story.
Bobby Lee admits to raping a child prostitute in Tijuana
https://www.reddit.com/r/Standup/comments/i5r3tj/bobby_lee_admits_to_raping_a_child_prostitute_in/
Bobby Lee admits to sleeping with crying child prostitute in Tijuana on live radio
My opinion: When I read the first article, I think Lee was telling a true story. When I read the second article, I am unsure. This is really grey.
You can listen to the tone of voice, and watch the video with the facial expressions and body language, and then you can see if he's telling the truth or not.
The other 2 blog posts of the week:
"Trump to order ’100% tariff’ on all movies produced abroad"/ "After Trump vows tariffs on foreign movies, the Canadian film industry says he's lost the plot"
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/trump-to-order-100-tariff-on-all-movies.html
"Hudson's Bay workers denied commission pay during liquidation sales"/ "Hudson's Bay backtracks on cutting workers' commission pay, but still won't offer severance"
https://badcb.blogspot.com/2025/05/hudsons-bay-workers-denied-commission.html
It's been seven years and counting.
The Northlands Coliseum was closed in 2017 and it's expected to take at least another two years before the building is demolished.
The City of Edmonton says work is underway, by a third party, to determine what is needed to demolish the 50-year-old building.
City costs
City council approved $35 million to demolish the building as part of the 2023-2026 operating budget.
That's in addition to the $9 million the city has spent so far to maintain the building with heat and security.
The Coliseum opened in 1974 where the Edmonton Oilers won five Stanley Cups in a decade and its also been the site of concerts, rodeos and other events.
The city currently has long-term plans to redevelop the site where the arena is and the surrounding property into an urban village, complete with a new LRT station and mixed commercial and residential space.
"We want to be able to develop this land into mixed-use housing, commercial — something better than a vacant and derelict building," Salvador said.
Over the years, there were several ideas pitched to try to save the former home of the Oilers.
In December 2017, then-councillor Tony Caterina urged council to try to salvage the building.
At the time, then-mayor Don Iveson said he saw the Coliseum as a liability to the city.
"The longer we wait, the more money we waste," Iveson argued during a council meeting in 2017.
Even former mayor Stephen Mandel turned up at city hall in 2020 to urge council to listen to proposals.
Groups submitted ideas to re-purpose the building for arts, theatre, businesses and markets.
In the end, the city's legal deal with the Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG) prevented the space from being re-purposed for sports or entertainment.
My opinion: I was talking to my little brother P.
It looks like a lot of people did try to repurpose the place. It's not as easy to repurpose the place like repurposing an office building to an apartment building.
Wed. May 7, 2025 Sai Woo Garden: We went here for dinner to celebrate Mother's Day and my mom's birthday. The food was good and we ordered:
Crab
Calamari
Deep fried fish
Chicken
Sweet and sour pork
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