When it comes to comedy, virtually anything to do with the storied Comedy Store in Los Angeles can easily become a big deal, including or perhaps especially when the place is being hit with lawsuits. Not least when the person in the crosshairs is none other than Pauly Shore, the son of the legendary Mitzi…
This is a case about a failed collaboration between a gadfly comedian and a maverick politician with allegations of fraud in the mix.
So, comedians, as we all know, set out to make people laugh when they’re at work. But the funny thing is, they sometimes also make people angry and mad as hell. In fact, so mad that sometimes some of these people actually do attack them. As in, (gasp!) attack them physically, that is. Cut to…
When a comedian sues a non-comedian for damaging his reputation, one can expect the sort of unusual scenario where ‘the usual suspects’ become the ones trying to restore sanity. So, as the hunter becomes the hunted and people wonder just how well the shoe will fit on the other foot, the recent case of Muslim…
Though he’s still pretty young, aspiring comedian Charles Ross not long ago learned a simple lesson he should have known all along: that comedy is only about jokes as long as everyone understands what is happening as a joke even if they may not like the joke. And of course, as long as any funnyman…
Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsuit in…
Comedian Andy Dick is in trouble again. Only this time, he is not being arrested by the cops but is being sued by someone who won’t take his antics lying down. In early May, a Dallas man named Robert Tucker filed a lawsuit against Dick, his agent the United Talent Agency (UTA) and a Dallas…