The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A human rights tribunal in Quebec has ordered comedian Mike Ward to pay $42,000 in “moral and punitive damages” to singer Jérémy Gabriel and Gabriel’s mother, following a complaint made back in 2012 about jokes Ward had made regarding Gabriel. Ward announced the ruling Wednesday night while hosting The Nasty Show …
The endoscopy clinic in New York City’s Upper East Side where Joan Rivers died after a routine surgery went bad has settled a malpractice lawsuit brought by the legendary comedian’s daughter. In a statement, Melissa Rivers: The lawsuit concerning my mother’s death has been settled. In accepting this settlement, I am …
Dean Obeidallah and Negin Farsad successfully challenged a ban by New York City’s MTA sought to prevent them from promoting their satirical movie, The Muslims Are Coming!, with posters within the city’s subway system. “Negin Farsad and I won our lawsuit versus NYC’s MTA today regarding our funny, positive posters …
Bill Cosby gave young women Quaaludes to make them vulnerable enough so he could have sex with them. Time and time again. Cosby admitted as much under oath in a September 2005 deposition when he was being sued by one of his rape victims — a case later settled out …
From the hours immediately following the fatal crash along the New Jersey Turnpike in June that killed one comedian (“Jimmy Mack”) and critically wounded three others — Tracy Morgan, Ardie Fuqua and Morgan’s assistant, Jeffrey Millea — Walmart said it’d do everything to settle the matter quickly and smoothly. Bill …
Kramer vs. Kramer is an Oscar-winning film about divorce. Kramer vs. Stoller was a case of art imitating life imitating parody masquerading as reality. At any rate, case dismissed. New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe exonerated Fred Stoller and Skyhorse Publishing with her ruling Monday, dismissing the defamation claims of …
What’s in a name? That depends upon how much the name, and its uniqueness, is worth to you. For me, personally, I have two very common Irish names. Professionally, I use my middle initial as a more unique identifier to separate me from so many of the other “Sean McCarthys” …
