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Comic Threatened with arrest by Secret Service for Hillary Joke
KREM 2 News ^ | 12/21/04 | Chris Warren

Posted on 12/29/2004 12:36:47 PM PST by Wawona

Politically incorrect comic, Chris Warren, owner of the Brickwall Comedy Club in Spokane, Washington was visited by two Special Agents from the Spokane office of the United States Secret Service today about a joke Chris told at his comedy club a few weeks ago. Chris, one of only a few politically conservative comedians in the country, told a joke about Hillary Clinton, which evidently crossed the line with a local Doctor who was attending a show at the comedy club.

(Excerpt) Read more at brickwallcomedy.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: censorship; chriswarren; comedy; comedyclub; freespeech; hillaryclinton; secretservice; usss
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1 posted on 12/29/2004 12:36:47 PM PST by Wawona
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To: Wawona

Had the joke been about W, they wouldn't have said a word.


2 posted on 12/29/2004 12:39:53 PM PST by RockinRight (Let's start now-Mark Sanford for President in 2008!)
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To: Wawona

What the heck was the joke? (On second thought, don't post it) No go ahead post it. (NO DON'T)


3 posted on 12/29/2004 12:40:01 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Wawona

Dang. I really want to know what the joke was... I'd write a song about it, just to be a d**k ;0)


4 posted on 12/29/2004 12:40:22 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Wawona

So what was the joke?!??!


5 posted on 12/29/2004 12:40:52 PM PST by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: Wawona
OK. The guy was tagged and that might have been mean spirited and uncalled for.

But specifically, what did he say that started this ball rolling? Did he threaten Hitlary? There is a missing piece to this "piece".

6 posted on 12/29/2004 12:42:13 PM PST by squirt-gun
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To: escapefromboston

Apparently he can't repeat it, based on the article - if he does, he gets put on a watch list, his travel will be problematic, and he'd lose the gigs performing in the Mideast for the troops...

So, I guess now we'll never know what the joke is... bummer.


7 posted on 12/29/2004 12:44:20 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

No freepin kidding! Unless he overtly made a threat against the one who must not be named, it would seem to me to be a 1st ammendment issue!

Unleash the Joke!


8 posted on 12/29/2004 12:46:05 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Life is a Tragedy for those who feel, and a Comedy for those who think.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Yeah I don't want the secret service busting us. Here is a sample of his humor. Above average!

http://www.american-entertainment.net/artists/comedy/warren/pc_Track07.wma
9 posted on 12/29/2004 12:46:35 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Wawona
Here's the editorial that prompted the investigation:

Sick Jokes

Recently a group from my office got together and went to the Brickwall Comedy Club at the Budget Inn.

When I go to an adults-only comedy club, I expect to hear adult humor (including off-color jokes, which are half the fun) but did not expect to come out completely irate. The night started with the owner, Chris Warren, getting up and telling a few jokes. His jokes consisted of not one multiple jokes about rape. One of them started out by him asking if anyone had heard about the woman who married her rapist. His "punch line"? "At what point during the rape did she think, 'Hey, this isn't so bad?'" When the room was silent, he made a comment that maybe his joke was too dark for the crowd. It was not that his humor was too dark but that violent crimes against women are just not funny. Later he made a comment that Hillary Clinton should be raped and assassinated. When again the room was silent, he said that "OK, maybe we should assassinate her first then rape her." This is supposed to be funny?? I don't care what your political persuasion is, wishing any person to be raped and put to death is just wrong. Maybe Warren should look at his material and figure out that there are certain subject matters that are never funny no matter how you tell the joke.

I know that some people will think I am overreacting, but I take care of women in my practice who have been victims of violence and rape, and I can guarantee they're not laughing about it. Neither am I.

Heather Armstrong, M.D.

10 posted on 12/29/2004 12:48:30 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended to by a bodyguard of lies.-WC)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

What if he said the joke was about someone named Cillary Hlinton?


11 posted on 12/29/2004 12:48:58 PM PST by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: Wawona
Searched Brickwall and Inlander....Do you have a link to the joke? Having a hard time believing SS would visit over a joke of a public figure unless it was threatening.

Curiosity aroused.

12 posted on 12/29/2004 12:50:17 PM PST by 506trooper (No such thing as too much inane, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
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To: AdamSelene235
Not very funny.

But neither is Hillary's history of aiding and abetting Bubba's rapes.

13 posted on 12/29/2004 12:51:06 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended to by a bodyguard of lies.-WC)
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To: AdamSelene235
It was not that his humor was too dark but that violent crimes against women are just not funny...

So, I'm walking through the woods with a woman, as it starts to get dark, and she turns to me and says "It's getting dark, and I'm scared..." and I looked at her and said "Ha. you think YOU'RE scared? I gotta walk back alone!"

Tee hee ;0)

14 posted on 12/29/2004 12:52:44 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: AdamSelene235

Well, I must admit that I don't find any of those comments particularly funny, however, there have been many, many documented cases of "comedians" saying far worse things about numerous conservatives, with NO repercussions whatsoever.


15 posted on 12/29/2004 12:53:41 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Life is a Tragedy for those who feel, and a Comedy for those who think.)
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To: 506trooper
Sick Jokes

Recently a group from my office got together and went to the Brickwall Comedy Club at the Budget Inn.

When I go to an adults-only comedy club, I expect to hear adult humor (including off-color jokes, which are half the fun) but did not expect to come out completely irate. The night started with the owner, Chris Warren, getting up and telling a few jokes. His jokes consisted of not one multiple jokes about rape. One of them started out by him asking if anyone had heard about the woman who married her rapist. His "punch line"? "At what point during the rape did she think, 'Hey, this isn't so bad?'" When the room was silent, he made a comment that maybe his joke was too dark for the crowd. It was not that his humor was too dark but that violent crimes against women are just not funny. Later he made a comment that Hillary Clinton should be raped and assassinated. When again the room was silent, he said that "OK, maybe we should assassinate her first then rape her." This is supposed to be funny?? I don't care what your political persuasion is, wishing any person to be raped and put to death is just wrong. Maybe Warren should look at his material and figure out that there are certain subject matters that are never funny no matter how you tell the joke.

I know that some people will think I am overreacting, but I take care of women in my practice who have been victims of violence and rape, and I can guarantee they're not laughing about it. Neither am I.

Heather Armstrong, M.D.

Spokane, Wash.

16 posted on 12/29/2004 12:55:07 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

You sick freak! :-) I've always meant to ask where you do your standup?


17 posted on 12/29/2004 12:55:23 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Life is a Tragedy for those who feel, and a Comedy for those who think.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Here. ;0)


18 posted on 12/29/2004 12:55:47 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Drango

I agree with the Doctor. The Hillary comment is out of line.


19 posted on 12/29/2004 12:56:30 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

oh, well, yeah - i should have known... <:-0


20 posted on 12/29/2004 12:56:47 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Life is a Tragedy for those who feel, and a Comedy for those who think.)
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