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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 ...
William Michael "Bil" Dwyer (born March 30, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, game-show host, actor, and writer. He is perhaps most well known as the host or play-by-play announcer on series such as BattleBots, I've Got a Secret, and Extreme Dodgeball, as well as several iterations of VH1's I Love the '70s, I Love the '80s, and I Love the '90s, and a 2006 appearance on Last Comic Standing.
Teh, whose appeals were rejected, remained on death row for 13 years before Malaysia repealed the mandatory death penalty and allowed those convicted of murder to face either a death sentence or a jail term of 30 to 40 years. Teh appealed after this legal reform, and his death sentence was reduced to 40 years' jail and 17 strokes of the cane in ...
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
Biden had been under pressure from congressional Democrats and anti-death penalty activists prior to Monday's announcement to commute the sentences of death row inmates before he left office.
Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) [1] is an American comedian, writer, and actress.. She was one of the few women working in stand-up comedy in the 1970s and 80s, and she broke ground by adopting an observational style that included frank discussions about her life as a single woman, as well as political commentary.
John Oliver has criticised the death penalty once more ahead of the execution of a Missouri man for a 2006 double murder, branding executions a “protracted nightmare of suffering.”. The ...
Stavros Halkias (born February 11, 1989) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster. Active since the early 2010s, he is a nationally touring comic who came to prominence as a founding co-host of the podcast Cum Town. [2] As of 2024, he co-stars in the Netflix comedy series Tires. [3]