Dan Harmon, the creator of Community and co-creator of Rick and Morty, has apologised after a “distasteful” joke dating back to 2009 went viral on social media.
The offending scripted sketch, a spoof of the TV show Dexter, sees Harmon play a therapist who repeatedly molests babies.
I quickly realised the content was way too distasteful and took the video down immediately.
Harmon – a vocal critic of Trump – has since apologised: “In 2009, I made a ‘pilot’ which strove to parody the series Dexter and only succeeded in offending.