After hosting the NBC competition show “America’s Got Talent” for 8 seasons, Nick Cannon says he is leaving. The decision comes after he said the network threatened to silence him for a joke he made on his stand-up special, “Stand Up, Don’t Shoot” that premiered Friday on Showtime.

Early this morning, Cannon took to Facebook to write a lengthy post about the dispute and what he plans on doing about it.

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