This cover is from 1993
Posted on 03/29/2010 7:45:22 PM PDT by LibWhacker
VANCOUVER — A comedian whose put-downs of a lesbian and her companion in the audience is hoping she doesn’t have the last laugh at a B.C. Human Rights Commission tribunal this week.
Was Guy Earle’s discriminatory verbal assault spurred solely by the woman’s sexual orientation, or was the professional funny man exercising his right to free speech when an audience member wouldn’t settle down?
Earle, who’s been a stand-up comic for more than two decades, was the volunteer master of ceremonies at amateur night at a Vancouver restaurant in May 2007.
Lorna Pardy and her same-sex partner had moved to seats near the stage after the patio closed. Pardy’s lawyer says as they spoke with the waitress they were bombarded by a series of gay slurs courtesy of Earle.
But Earle, who lives in Georgetown, Ont., and has a day job as a physicist, has a different version of events and said his remarks come with the comedy show territory.
“When you heckle me and you’ve been disrespectful through the whole show, I come from the George Carlin school of dealing with a heckler,” he said in an interview. “So yeah, I shoved it down their throat and that’s what you do.”
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He should make the whole episode into a comedy routine.
And he shouldn’t show up for the proceeding. Make them arrest him.
Liberalism to the extreme.
Canadians don’t have a right to free speech, do they?
I think he should seek asylum in the US.
Seriously. Why not?
Not sure...but, I don’t think so.
They do not...not like in the US. If you offend someone you can be charged with hate speech and can expect you're going to blow whatever money you have fighting the charges unless you're quite wealthy.
Canada is fast turning into the Taliban.
Lorna Pardy is the one in the middle of this photo:
http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/lorna-pardy-embarrasser-of-les.html
The article reads like a bad 1984 clone. Tribunals to determine if they have the jurisdiction over whether something a comic said was discriminatory against a protected class of people? A protected class of people? Some are more equal, eh?
“I basically like to piss off any group that takes itself a little too seriously, and it does NOT take a lot of imagination to piss off a feminist.” - George Carlin
This cover is from 1993
Ahhh the jokes just write themselves....
He will have to move again when our government starts pulling the same stunt.
“Canadians don’t have a right to free speech, do they?”
Apparently not.
May be 1993, but I like those boots!
I think Earle should drag the lesbos before the Human Rights Commission. They singled him out for heckling as a protected member of a persecuted minority — comedians.
As long as you agree say only what the government says you can say you can say anything you want. Until they change the rules.
LOL!
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