Dylan Sprouse wasn’t having it. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody recalled the time he was required to say an uncomfortable joke during a Thursday visit to SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.
Sprouse said he refused to say a scripted fat joke about co-star and TV mom Kim Rhodes when she was pregnant. “[I] just don’t really think fat jokes are funny,” Sprouse said. “There’s a better joke somewhere else, unless you’re talking about yourself.
Unless it’s self-referential, which I find is fun, but if you’re pointing the finger at people and talking about how they look, I just don’t tend to find that very funny in general.
I think there’s better jokes.” By Sprouse’s estimation, he was about 14 or 15 when the incident occurred. Cohen asked how he pushed back against an executive producer.
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