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Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under obscenity charges. Bruce in 1963, after being arrested in San Francisco. Bruce was arrested again in 1961 in Philadelphia for drug possession, and again in Los Angeles two years later.
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 ...
Guy Branum (/ ˈ b r æ n ə m /) (born November 12, 1975) [1] is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Some first knew him through his work as a regular panelist on Chelsea Lately on the E! network and the head writer and a sketch performer on X-Play on the G4 network.
On the afternoon of October 30, 1973, radio station WBAI in New York City, owned by the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, aired a program about societal attitudes toward language and included the monologue "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" by comedian George Carlin, from his 1972 album Class Clown. The broadcast included Carlin's ...
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.
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Pescatelli co-created, executive produced, wrote and starred in a reality television show on WE tv called A Standup Mother (2011), related to Pescatelli's life as a mother, wife, and comedian. [7] Her comedy special Finding the Funny was released with Netflix in 2013. [8] It was selected "New and Noteworthy" by iTunes editors and hit number 3 ...
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity as material that lacks "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value". [1]