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Here are five comedians who were arrested over material they performed onstage. Before obscenity laws were deemed unconstitutional in the early 1970s, comedians risked the threat of arrest for ...
The latter arrest took place in then-unincorporated West Hollywood, and the arresting officer was a young deputy named Sherman Block, who later became county sheriff. The charge this time was that the comedian had used the word "schmuck", an insulting Yiddish word that was also considered a term for "penis". The Hollywood charges were later ...
One of the less enthusiastic reviews came from Roger Ebert, stating, "Unless we go in convinced that Lenny Bruce was an important performer, the movie doesn't convince us." [ 6 ] In 2012, British film critic Mark Kermode put Hoffman's performance as Lenny Bruce at number eight in a top-ten video of Hoffman's best performances.
United States v. Handley, 564 F. Supp. 2d 996 (2008), was a court case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa involving obscenity charges stemming from the importation of manga featuring pornographic depictions of fictional minors.
Getty Images. Jeff Ross The "Roastmaster General" got in some hot water in March 2015 at the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber. Referencing a song by dais member Ludacris, Ross said, "'Move ...
The Orange County Sheriff's Department took the actor into custody after a man accused him of sexual assault — the latest in a long list of controversies.
[22] [23] On June 23, 2003, he was arrested in Austin, Texas, for heroin possession. [24] On October 12, 2004, Hedberg sat in on the news with Robin Quivers on The Howard Stern Show . He appeared on the show again on March 17, 2005, 2 weeks before his death, this time with Quivers and Artie Lange present, and briefly discussed his drug use ...
Andy Dick was arrested again Wednesday — and it was captured live on camera by a fellow RV enthusiast in California. The comedian, 56, was detained and charged with felony sexual battery for ...