[SAJ]

Mason's routine was running long during one show, the director gave him the 'cut' signal, and Mason flipped him off...on **live** TV, iirc.

[weegee]

Open to interpretation. Jackie cuts his act off and takes his bows saying, that's for you (open arms to the crowd), that's for you (to some in the wings on one side) and that's for you (interpreted as the fickle finger of fate) to the wing where Ed was standing.

He was blacklisted for awhile (although I think he still got work in the Ant & Aardvark cartoons by the same studio which did the Pink Panther shorts).

This is the difference between then and now (with Janet Jackson). She did not become an immediate outcast and even still there are some people who decry those who protest a mutilated nipple being included as a planned part of the show at the Superbowl as being "prudes".