Michael Rapaport’s time at Barstool Sports ended as quickly as it came. It all started when the actor went on X, formerly known as Twitter, alleging that a fellow Barstool Sports employee, Adam Smith, used enhancement drugs to win an amateur boxing match. After a fan came to the defense of Smith and called himself a stoolie, a fan of Barstool Sports, Rapaport went off. The “Only Murders in the Building” actor tweeted, “If you call yourself a f***ing stoolie for real, you’ve already lost in life.” This wasn’t a good look for Rapaport, considering he was criticizing the company and fans that employed him, and CEO Dave Portnoy seemed to think the same.
A day after Rapaport made his comments on Twitter, Portnoy revealed in an “emergency press conference” release that the comedian had taken his jokes too far and was fired. He shared, “When I woke up this morning I promptly fired Rapaport. Am I hero? No. It was the biggest no brainer in the history of no brainers. You can’t s**t on our entire fanbase and still expect to work here.” But if you thought this was the end of the Rapaport and Barstool Sports drama — you’d be wrong.
After Rapaport was let go, Barstool Sports shared several social media posts insinuating the actor was racist, a stalker, and infected with the herpes virus, per The Hollywood Reporter. Because of this, Rapaport decided to take Barstool Sports to court.
