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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 ...
Audio/video . Works by Lenny Bruce at Faded Page (Canada) "Come and Gone/Thank you, Mr. Masked Man!", My KPFA – A Historical Footnote (1961 Jazz Workshop performance and two 1963 performances) at the Wayback Machine (archived April 16, 2008) Video Clips Relating to the Trial of Lenny Bruce as assembled by the University of Missouri-Kansas ...
[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 ...
Chase argued, "there are no actual children. It was all very crude images from a comic book." [4] This was related to obscenity charges involving pornography depicting minors, being applied to a fictional comic book. On this, Chase said, "This prosecution has profound implications in limiting the First Amendment for art and artists, and comics ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Rabe v. Washington, 405 U.S. 313 (1972), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court involving the application of obscenity laws and criminal procedure to the states. On 29 August 1968, William Rabe, the manager of a drive-in movie theater in Richland, Washington, was arrested on obscenity charges for showing the film Carmen, Baby.