They should seriously show this at sexual harassment seminars.

"We're living in a good time right now, because we're not getting away with it anymore" Great line.

This is brutal. I have rarely seen someone flop their own soul out on the table like this and say "see that? That's the rotten bit."

“I ruined my show.” Wow. Way to own it. So many people seem to wanna call out others for the consequences of their actions, “you got me fired, are you happy now??” But this is a real genuine apology. Respect.

What I really appreciate about this apology is that Dan doesn't really paint the writer as a helpless victim but rather a person who unfortunately had to endure his wrongdoings. She is her own person and this doesn't have to be a part of who she is.

Damn, this is the first metoo apology that actually reads as genuinely introspective as opposed to simply reactionary. I hope more people follow his lead!

What sticks out to me is when he says: "I think a huge part of the problem is a culture of feeling things that you think are unique because they are happening to YOU." Like, wow. If that has not been the story of my life.

So glad he did this. Seems utterly sincere, and the victim must have thought so too, as she forgave him, for all to see, on Twitter. Respect to both.

And that young colleague... was Chevvy Chase.

"I was divesting her of a recourse to integrity." Wow. Those are some words.

This is what an apology should be. I wouldn't dream of saying that Dan is any sort of admirable person or role model. But I can never seem to apologise and this is exactly how I would like to be able to.

I've always had a lot of respect for Dan Harmon as a writer, and when the whole situation with Megan Ganz broke I lost a significant amount of respect for him. It's safe to say that some of that respect has returned. What happened was incredibly shitty, but I think Dan Harmon's is the most sincere and self aware apology I've seen from someone in his position.

Was this on HarmonTown? Holy shit he did this publicly

geez, that made be reconsider a lot of things about myself.

That looked really difficult to say. I'm glad you did it. And Megan followed up with each part you spoke about. It feels like solid closure.

This is how it's done. Not in a tweet, not with an excuse, not feeling sorry for yourself or patting yourself on the back for how you've "changed," but by admitting, in full, gory detail the whole truth, its widespread deleterious effects and squirming in palpable shame for all to see - then inviting others to do likewise. Yarbles. It takes a giant of a man.

I come back to this whenever I remember this to call myself out. I haven't done something like he did, but I sometimes notice my thought patterns going in that direction. Harmon made one of the best reminders to men to be introspective about how we think about women. Thanks Dan, look forward to the rest of your work

The Incel community could learn a lot from this.

Thank you. As hard as that must have been, this seems to be how healing begins. With humble hearts. Taking responsibility for our actions, and even our intentions. Stepping aside from our ego for a bigger perspective. We're all human, we all fuck up, and we all need forgiveness. With all the dissension we're dealing with right now, it's acts like these that will unite us instead of divide. I personally really needed to hear this today! Serendipity prevails once again! Thanks for taking the brave route. All the best to you and the badass lady involved!

Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing such a delicate story.

I appreciate Dan’s words here, because even though I haven’t done what he did, I feel I can relate. I know I’ve treated people badly, and looking back on certain people at certain times, I remember thinking differently than I do today, and could see saying and doing really inappropriate, bad things to people. I think this kind of thing happens all the time, and I think, yeah, it is really easy to engage in misconduct and get away with it. Not saying he or anyone else is a saint, or the devil, but we need people public ally owning up to stuff like this. What Megan thinks, and what she needs from Dan is the most important thing. That comes first. I hope what comes second is people seeing the way this story unfolded and the way the people involved have talked about it.

for anyone whose done something like this to a female in their life. THIS is what an apology looks like. This is genuine, not an excuse, but an explanation and a great apology. THIS is how it should be.

One of the best videos on KZfaq right here. Dropping the rock!

This is the manliest stuff I've seen in a while... Not everybody can pull this sort of thing off. The world needs more honest apologies like this.

Poignantly worded and a step in the right direction. The more natural it becomes to discuss these things openly, the easier it will become to reduce/prevent these terrible situations from coming about in the future. I obviously just watched an <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="687">11:27</a> KZfaq video, so I don't know that much about the situation, but I do know that the damage Dan did has already been done, and this admission isn't him trying to fix the past, but rather try to contribute to the discussion and show us all by example that honesty about the past will not only bring us closer to a better culture in the future, but also that it may inspire personal integrity in each and every one of us. We should be honest with ourselves. We need to examine our motivations and the hypothetical consequences of possible actions with an incorruptible integrity so that we can really "think about it" as Dan put it. Glad I stumbled on this video and saw it through, as uncomfortable as it made me. Gonna be replaying this in my head and try to internalize it.

There's nothing wrong with being attracted to someone. What really matters -- and this is true in just about every situation -- is how you choose to handle it. I appreciate Dan's honesty about it NOW. But I don't think this is particularly revelatory -- sadly. I think it's pretty common. But I also think what makes it remarkable is what the woman did in response to him THEN. She showed extreme courage and perhaps prevented this from happening to others. I'm sure it wasn't easy, but she did a great thing (even though things really turned to shit in the immediate aftermath). We can't let these things go. That's what I try to instill in my daughter. I have your back no matter what, but you need to accept ZERO mistreatment because you don't deserve it.

Never take this video down. Thank you for uploading this. I hope it continues to get seen for years and years to come.

As a woman who like pretty much every other woman has been on the receiving end of this behavior, to the extreme...I appreciate this and respect him so much. This made me cry because everything about it was beautiful and gives me hope

A clearly genuine apology. That's rare.

Not to downplay the seriousness of his admission. But as a longtime fan of Community it's crazy to find out that this is why he was fired as showrunner and was the reason Season 4 was terrible. Wow

"Sixty iterations off the Central Finite Curve there's a Dan Harmon who loves his girlfriend with an intensity that far surpasses the concept of an intra-office romance with a somewhat attractive subordinate writer. His name is Simple Dan, but he's no dummy. He learned long ago that the greatest relationship he'd ever experience was with his current girlfriend. We captured that moment. We run it on a loop through Simple Dan's mind. And the chemical that it makes his brain secrete goes into every Simple Dan Simple Wafer's Wafer Cookie. Come home to the impossible flavor of knowing your girlfriend is enough. Come home to Simple Dan's."

Harmon just described how we as men (mostly) react during times of "crushing" and advancing on a female. The before n actual time and the aftermath. Kudos Harmon. This was important to hear.

Thumbs down for what he did but thumbs up for accountability. Forgive but never forget and learn from your mistakes.

Awww dude. Dang. The most impressive display of honesty i've ever seen.

"What I was doing was divesting her of a recourse to integrity." Damn! What an eloquent and astute statement right in the moment.

Thank you for that, I feel like I learnt something.

This is what I hope we move towards. People who have done wrong apologizing sincerely, showing introspection and self-reflection, and trying to make amends by reaching out to others. But, ignoring my own feelings, what matters most is what she thinks about this and what else she might need from him.

I was the creepy nerd archetype for years and while it was entirely my fault I do wish the whole Me Too thing had happened when I was really young so maybe I would have thought about it instead of just seeing things as being about my emotions and whatever I was going through and ruining some really important friendships and hurting people.

lots of respect for this thankyou

Thank you for thinking about it. I appreciate your honesty.

Credit to Dan Harmon for being an actual human being about this. No excuses- an apology and genuine emotional regret. The man deserves serious credit for not allowing his genius to be an excuse to be shitty like so many others have done.

Accountability and consciousness is a distilled product that deep, diluted introspection has to offer. And no matter what age you are, that's growth. That is what we all are working hard for. Wisdom. A toast to Harmon

thanks for the food for thought, thanks for sharing Dan - take care of yourself

This has really helped me.

This has to be the gold standard of apologies, right? I keep coming back to it. He comes so clean and is so honest and cuts no corners and isn’t defensive. I respect this apology.

It made me cry. So beautiful. Thank you. Don't think I've ever heard....ever...a man saying things like this. I was always through my life been considered attractive and received a great deal of attention (including from people in positions of authority). As the woman yes it's always your fault. Thanks for doing this dan 🙏😢

I never knew any of this controversy or anything relating to it, but I read what Megan had to say and agree that this is the best way to truly, honestly apologize.

As a massive Harmon fan, I am dissapointed to learn that he did this, I thought better of him. That being said I am glad that he openly admits what he did, why he did it and to explain where he came from and that he understands why it was wrong. I hope it gives comfort to the writer he abused and that we can all learn from this. (Edit I'd like to add that I have tremendous respect for Harmon for doing this, it can't have been easy to admit this and it took a lot of courage, I am still disapointed that it happened but I am still a fan)

Respect 👊 Takes a strength to take responsibility to admit your wrong

If everyone lived like this, I am not convinced the world would be “perfect” or find “peace” but I do believe that version of our world compared to this one, would be almost unrecognizable to this one. The fact someone with the fame/status he has is not only willing but able to do something like this brings a tear to my cynical eye because I often tell myself or lie and say that the world is destined to fail. And maybe it is, but I think with people like this in the world there will always be a force of resistance moving against the giant cog of chaos & malice that so often taint the screens we are so often glued to. This speech to me is a love letter to humanity to accept our fears, and to walk with them till they can no longer keep up, instead of being complacent and letting our fears or lies run circles around us till by the time we lift our heads we are already six feet deep… but so long as breathe is in our lungs we always have the opportunity to try again… to try and climb out of wherever we end up so we can hopefully finish off somewhere better for ourselves, so we can be better to others.

Hes great at putting perspective and thought into words, its really nice to hear like an audiable discription of the inner workings of a guy. i would really interpret every word he says, seriously.

Dude.. it's good you're talking about it, as you think about it and gain more experience through life.. and gain more control in both your love life and within your profession... your creativity will come, and you'll remember to treat yourself and others with dignity and respect by repeatedly practicing healthy boundaries you help to regulate yourself

I want for all creepy guys to not see this as his apology, but his callout to them, this acknowledgement of human flaw we all bare. And I know we have empathy, and as long as we do, we won't allow this to happen from us to another human being, no matter the gender.

I want to thank Dan Harmon for not only thinking this through, but for sharing it with all of us. We need to go through this process as a culture to get over the damaging environments we create and participate in through our entire lives.

This <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="646">10:46</a> part hits so differently in 2023 in the worst way imaginable

I appreciate that he finally was honest and realized what he did was wrong.

I love how excited Spencer is at the end, after all that.

This is what it looks like to redeem yourself with a sincere apology.

The thing that hits me hardest about this is, I could see myself doing the exact same thing if I had been in his shoes.

I am so thankful that you took ownership of your behaviour because it empowers every woman who has been in situations like this. This is also a path towards integrity. This is truly an apology and worthy of forgiveness. All the best.

He is so honest to himself. He explains it without trying to make it look better than this horrible thing was. Especially when he's talking about our feelings and how we express ourselves everyone can learn something of it. He is a better person now.

This had to be terrifying and being someone that's owed some deep apologies I appreciate that he did it just for the sake of hearing someone say something like this outloud. He didn't just apologize he put it. All. Out. There.

Sounds like the moral inventory you hear people take at an AA meeting.

i'll only say it's very interesting to hear a voice n the other side of these instances explain this in an analytical manner

Much respect Dan Harmon. It takes balls to do this. He did, and his apology was accepted. Welcome to life. This is how you deal with life like an adult.

This is respectable

for the love of everything HOLY!! Bring back the audience!

This is absolutely vital for so many people to be able to hear. Not only did he make his apology utterly sincere by laying his ugliness bare with only enough commentary to express genuine remorse, but he did so in a way that shows that what was ugly and monstrous about how he was and what he did was completely mundane. He worded it all so specifically and relatably and with such understanding of WHY what he did was wrong, not just THAT it was wrong that it holds up as a reflection of everybody (mostly those of us assigned/conditioned as men) who has ever felt something similar to him and took it out on (or was tempted to take it out on) the source of our unrequited feelings. That is arguably the most important thing about this apology and the way it is worded and that he did it in the forum he did. It's wonderful that he shows remorse and understanding and growth. I'm glad he held it to such importance that she not be further victimized by fan outrage. That he made it clear that HE got HIMSELF fired, and HE ruined everything, that she is blameless. But not just that, this will make people reflect on themselves. I see it in myself and I see others in these comments saying as much. It's an apology that may well do some good outside of its own context. Some guy is going to see this, the words will resonate, and will know to be mindful of his own behavior when the time comes. I want to be very careful as not to overly praise Dan Harmon on this, I feel like that would almost miss the point. It's not about what a good thing he did and how he's great for doing it. It would have been better if he had just never done the thing for which he apologized. But I feel like this should be acknowledged as an example of what an apology in this context should be. I hope the people that need to hear this hear it, and I hope they really listen.

I think the other great example here is what she did. She handled herself in such a way that made it clear to him what he was doing wasn’t fair. He ignored it but she was clear, respectful, and kind about his inappropriate behavior and I think that’s to be applauded in a world where everyone attacks everyone instead of trying to help them be better by appealing to their better nature.

If more people stepped up for their mistakes like that, the world would be a better place. We all make mistakes, and we all damage things. It‘s easy to say „oh man what an asshole“ but so many people seem unable to learn from it.

Wow! Amazing! Good for you.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="539">8:59</a> "I damaged her internal compass." That is so haunting to hear said out loud. Relationships that end badly often have that theme, potentially both ways.

This is the best apology on the internet.

Spencer in the end. :) I've got your back buddy.

Thank you, Dan Harmon.

What a guy. That takes gut to do that on a big stage, sets the marl for men and women around the world, fess up and mobe on as people, apologize and recognise mistakes. Good on him

One of the most descriptive, seemingly sincere apologies i have ever seen. Maybe we can all learn or be better people from his experience

That was more than "7 minutes exactly.." lol

This took courage. Its easy to hide and deny and issue a written apology, but to come out and tell us how he went down that path, that can help people. Someone might see this and realize theyre halfway to where dan went

I think just about any adult man and probably plenty of women can unfortunately relate to this. Privilege begets a kind of narcissism that Harmon has taken the time to examine in himself. I'm in my 30s and have been relatively successful professionally and romantically but for a variety of reasons still struggle to see women I'm attracted to as whole people rather than objects of desire. Thank you Dan Harmon for reminding me to refuse my own narcissism rather than let it harm the people around me.

Well that seemed like a step forward. I hope it helped everyone involved and maybe set a standard for honest dialog.

There comes a point in an "apology" like this when you expect the person to backpedal a bit, maybe point out a place where the other person was slightly responsible, or even try and save grace for themselves. Instead he continues to drive the point home in complete abandonment of how he would or will be viewed for this. Something remarkable at a time when the commonality the subject was unremarkable.

It's so good this gets talked about.

The only thing that will reform humanity is grace. I am so encouraged by the comments in this video. There isn’t a human being on earth that hasn’t hurt someone because of selfish reactions to normal feelings. I respect Dan Harmon so much for being so humble.

gotta love spencer at the end there

Woah I get Jeff's arc. Also, mad respect for the courage to own up like this.

wow...you don't see this everyday...this is the change we wanna see...

"Just think about it " A good message

"If you can lie to yourself you can lie to anyone". I find it so interesting he said that like that. My most basic unit of philosophy on which all others that I want to live by stem, for years, has been," If I can be honest with myself, I'll never have the need to lie to anyone else".

this video is so fuckin important

He was already one of my favorite comedians. This was awesome to see.

Fuck, this is legit. Forgive him or hate him, this is genuine. Being genuine, in public, as a public figure, is unusual. This is insightful and valuable. I feel that it is brave and good, and I am glad to have heard it. I don’t know who the woman in question is, but I hope she is doing well despite Mr. Harmon’s very bad behavior. Remember: do not shit where you eat. Work is not the place for sexual advances.

This makes me respect Harmon all the more. Very genuine and tragic.

For a real kick in the pants you can check out the episode commentaries that have Harman and Ganz on together. Woof.

The only frustrating thing is that in less traditionally creative industries i.e. not acting & specific types of writing. There are whole structures in place to deal with this, just look at Finance/banking where the worst incidents used to happen they understand unwarranted feelings can occur and good ways to manage them. That being said it's good he talked about it.

Letter to Dan, Right now you are my hero. Coming out and laying yourself on the line for others to judge is SUCH a brave thing to do. You acknowledge what you did, you accept if and embrace your actions... and to me these are the first steps to change. I know as I have been there (though not with this kind of situation). I'm told by friends that the entertainment industry can really screw up your 'ethical compass' in many ways because of the way everything is (sex, drugs, personalities, egos and fame). The fact that you are coming out the other side is like a rebirth... and it shows. In many ways, I want you to be ok but I know that nothing will be the same. But this HUGE step you just took... even if it does follow you for awhile, find a way to use it. Don't wallow in it. Embrace that emotion and channel it into something outside the industry... for your own health. Because thats what you need more than anything it seems... to be able to find your center again after being knocked off balance. I often think that your character Rick is merely a reflection of your inner turmoil with emotion at times and love. Wanting it (Finding Beth and wanting to be part of a family) while rejecting it at the same time. An inner fear of finding that one thing in the world you truly care for and having it ripped from you... whether due to external forces or your own fuckups. But a self-reckoning is at hand that has the ability to reattach you to everything and everyone if you embrace. There will be no loss of your art because you are who you are at your core and your art is a reflection of that. But you can evolve into what you truly WANT to be... you just have to come to terms with what your true wants and desires are. I myself have been tempted but I realize that the person I have in my wife is someone who will stand by me and always try to make me better. Over time we become more like a single working unit composed of two parts and when one gets out of whack, the other pulls them back in. And acknowledging this in my mind is VERY important for me as it makes me realize what I have and how LONG it took to create this. You will have that again and the unfortunate thing is it will only come when you aren't looking and don't want it. You have a road of recovery and need to take care of yourself and learn to love yourself before you will be able to love someone else. And there's alot to love (even though you have rough edges). The very FACT that you did this PROVES how much there is to love! It proves you are a good person at heart who fucked up! It proves you want to make things right and you want to be better than who you are today and become more in the future. I would be proud to call you friend and admire the strength you ahve in these times when you may be feeling like everything is falling apart. Because you basically just knitted yourself a new you in front of an audience and did some incredible psyche work. Anyway, get well. Get Better. Skip a R&M season if you have to. Your health is more important than our entertainment. Maybe we will read a fuckin book for fucks sake!

Harmon was the one fucking person I hoped never would have been mentioned in the metoo movement. I mean the apology is still infinitely better than all other hollywood creeps combined, but this still makes me super disappointed.

Wow this made me take a long look at myself

Now that is a real apology!

I forgave him when she did. If we can’t forgive someone that shows true remorse and is forgiven by the victim then it is simply a witch hunt.