Comedian Tyler Fischer is persona-non-grata at Fox after being accused of harassing a young female employee at the network’s New York studios earlier this year. 

Fischer, 38, was a frequent guest on Gutfeld!, the network’s widely popular late night show that pulls in about five million viewers nightly.

But after boldly asking out a young female staffer during a visit to the network’s Manhattan HQ in January, his appearances have dried up.

Fischer says his only ‘crime’ was innocently asking the woman out for coffee.

He’d been asked to appear on Gutfeld’s show on January 30, and was in the building early for a meeting when he encountered the young woman sitting at her desk.

Fischer, speaking to Daily Mail, described it as a ‘flirty little interaction’.

‘I introduced myself, I said “Hey, I’m Tyler… I need to get going to the show to film, but would you ever get coffee sometime”‘ he recalls himself saying.

Moments later, he was approached by security.

The female staffer complained that he’d harassed her and reported it. Fischer insisted to DailyMail.com there was nothing aggressive or unfriendly about the interaction, saying it was ‘consensual and we agreed to exchange information.

‘I asked if she’d like to get coffee another time and she said yes. That’s what prompted me to ask about exchanging contact information, which was also consensual.’

Comedian Tyler Fischer says he’s been blacklisted by Fox after asking out a female employee at the network

The incident occurred at Fox’s Sixth Avenue HQ on January 30, when Fischer was in the building to film Gutfeld!

Within minutes, he recalled, ‘Security grabbed me and I was escorted me off the floor.

‘It was confusing – I didn’t get what happened… I was stunned and humiliated,’ he says.

Fischer was then accompanied by security to the Gutfeld set to film, and left the studios afterwards.

Two weeks later, a pre-arranged appearance was canceled.

Fischer – who has appeared on the show over a dozen times in the last two years – hasn’t been asked back since.

He believes he’s a victim of a woke ‘mind virus’ culture, and that he did nothing wrong.

‘It is not illegal or against any rules at Fox to ask a grown adult for coffee,’ he fumed, a day after taking to X to air his claims – a decision he said he did not take lightly. He gave Fox a full two months to address his inquiries, he said.

‘But in the woke mind virus world, any advance by a man is labeled as some kind of toxic masculinity,’ he fumed.

Fischer is now contemplating legal action against the network, he says – adding how he even warned Fox he was going to post about it to explain his side and absence to fans.

‘It is beyond tragic to see men hide away in fear. I, for one, will not allow it to happen to me,’ he said, slamming the ‘harassment’ claims as a ‘false accusation.’

Fischer was a regular on Fox’s widely popular late night show Gutfeld! until the January incident

Fischer claims he was unfairly accused of harassment and blacklisted as a result

A source said to have knowledge of the situation, however, told DailyMail.com the incident played out differently, claiming Fischer grabbed the woman’s phone and put his number in it forcibly, before returning it and ‘demand[ing] to know she had the number now.’

 ‘And it wasn’t friendly’, the source said.

Representatives for Fox, meanwhile, declined to comment. The staffer in question has not been named.

She was sitting at her desk and had not been interacting with Fischer when he approached her, he said.

The interaction was overheard by other network employees.

As for Fischer, he is a comedian who lives full-time in Texas. He had been renting out an apartment in New York specifically to appear on Fox, he said – adding how sans some early, initial responses from Fox in February, he has yet to hear anything more.

A well-known figure, Fischer has appeared on both the Joe Rogan Experience and Kill Tony, and is currently touring across the US. He has built a sizable following over the past or two years thanks to his Gutfeld! appearances.

In a previous spat, he accused a talent agency of refusing to sign him because he is a white man.

‘We love you. Everyone here loves you and thinks you’re a star, but we’re not taking you because you’re white,’ he claims agents at AGI said.

Fox faced a sexual harassment reckoning in 2017 with an onslaught of #MeToo allegations against late chairman Roger Ailes and a handful of male stars.

Bill O’Reilly was among star hosts who’d been accused of harassing female colleagues.