There is a small cabal of comedians who (post-COVID especially) realised they could earn a living basically through shock engagement on social media, and on Musk’s Twitter that’s ramped up hugely. Every so often one goes too far and even some of the weirdos who lap most of this shit up (mostly because it often involves jokes against non-white, neurodiverse or trans people) will say “woah, too far” and cast that one out. That seems to be what’s happened here (although I can’t speak to what Lawrence’s jokes usually involve, the above content was generic to a lot of those internet “comedians”).
". After Twitter users challenged him, he quoted his original tweet, stating that "I can see that this has offended a lot of people, and I'm sorry that black guys are bad at penalties. 
". Following the incident, multiple venues cancelled his upcoming shows and publicly denounced his comments as racist. He was also dropped by his agent.
