How do we manage an encounter between satire and public safety in our society?
Tag: satire
THE JAY LENO TRIANGLE: Comedy, Courtroom & Foreign Relations
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…
JOEL McHALE: A sweaty court battle with the angry dwarfs
Funnyman Joel McHale is a TV show host who pulls no punches when he takes the bat to celebrities and reality TV stars. But some of his targets are not the kinds of folks who would take his jibes lying low. Folks like Cara and Gibson Reynolds, a married dwarf couple from New Jersey who…