Comic Fined For Insulting Homo

[Kramer]

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/lesbian-insults-get-comic-fined-dpgonc-km-20110421_12871288

Lesbian Insults Get Comic Fined

Updated: Thursday, 21 Apr 2011, 8:48 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 21 Apr 2011, 8:48 PM EDT

(NewsCore) - VANCOUVER -- A Canadian comic has been ordered to pay CA$15,000 (US$15,745) to a woman he taunted along with her same-sex partner during a show in a Vancouver restaurant three years ago, the Vancouver Sun reported Thursday.

Stand-up comedian Guy Earl was ordered to pay the money to Lorna Pardy, 32, while the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal also ordered the Vancouver restaurant owner, Salam Ishmail, to pay her $7,500.

Pardy said Earle directed homophobic and sexist insults at her when she was a patron, and he was the master of ceremonies at an open mic comedy show at the restaurant in 2007.

Earle said he will appeal the ruling and that all he did was insult audience members who insulted him first. He also denied that he said some of the things he has been accused of, said Pardy threw a drink in his face and argued that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear the case.

Tribunal member Murray Geiger-Adams said Earle repeated vulgar language in public and attacked Pardy's identity and dignity as a woman and a lesbian and ordered the payment for lost wages and for injury to dignity, feelings and self respect.

[BT]

Poor Don Rickles. No Canada trips for him.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Rickles was born in 1926. He is at least 83 years old. I thought he retired some time ago.

And I imagine that he knows who he can insult and cannot in a show

[BT]

Rickles was born in 1926. He is at least 83 years old. I thought he retired some time ago.

And I imagine that he knows who he can insult and cannot in a show

At 83 Rickles doesn't care.
That is the beauty of getting older.

[Kramer]

Rickles was born in 1926. He is at least 83 years old. I thought he retired some time ago.

And I imagine that he knows who he can insult and cannot in a show

I liked the old days when if you didn't like the show you left. Now because of assholes like you everybody gets their feelings hurt.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I have never complained about a nightclub act in my entire life, or a TV show, either. Blame someone else, asshole.

I am not all that fond of Rickles, but he is occasionally funny. And I doubt that he would have been thrown out of that Canadian nightclub, either.