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On October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity [46] at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, where he had used the word "cocksucker", and said that "to is a preposition, come is a verb"; that the sexual context of 'come' was so common that it bore no weight; and that if someone hearing it became upset, he "probably can't come". [47]
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 ...
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.
In January 2015, Ali was cast as a series regular in the TBS sitcom Wrecked. [3] In October 2020, it was announced Ali would be starring in the Olivia Wilde psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling, and would appear in roles in Disney+'s The Mandalorian and WandaVision. [4] He would reprise his WandaVision role in Agatha All Along. [5]
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) [1] is an American actor, choreographer, clown, [2] [3] and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s.
Obscenity controversies in television, involving any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time. [1] The word can be used to indicate a strong moral repugnance, in expressions such as "obscene profits " or "the obscenity of war".
Following is a list of comedians, comedy groups, ... Amanda Crew (born 1986) Terry Crews (born 1968) ... Tony Law (born 1969) Bill Lawrence ...
Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen is a 1988 stand-up comedy concert film directed by Lenny Wong and starring Tim Allen, Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, Jackie Martling, Otto Peterson, Monty Hoffman, Steven Pearl, John Fox, Joey Gaynor, Larry Scarano, Stephanie Hodge and Thea Vidale.