What the hell is going on in the Great White Multi-cultured North?
First they took political humorist Mark Steyn before their Human Rights Commission. Then they threatened to do the same to Ann Coulter. Now a Canadian comedian is in trouble for insulting some lesbian hecklers.
This is no joke. They’re going after a comedian for responding to hecklers.
Guy Earle, a twenty-year veteran of the stand-up circuit, was the volunteer master of ceremonies for an amateur comedy night in Vancouver back in May 2007 when the disturbing incident occurred:
CNews reports the retorts:
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.”
Earle said the women were disruptive, not only ordering their drinks loudly but ignoring his requests to quiet down because a new comedian was about to take the stage. In fact, he said, they purposely got louder.
“As an MC, it’s kind of your duty to make sure that nobody’s disrupting the show, nobody’s heckling, nobody’s derailing it,” he said.
“These guys at this point, they’re making out and flipping me the bird.”
Earle said the next comedian’s act fizzled and he couldn’t even hear the comedian because the women spoke over him.
Earle went back up to introduce the next comic when one of the women allegedly yelled two expletives and said he wasn’t funny.
Earle countered by calling her unattractive and suggested male genitalia should be inserted in her mouth.
“I have the right to be offensive,” he said. “Because they didn’t find it funny doesn’t mean they can take me to the human rights tribunal.”
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Pardy’s complaint says Earle’s actions violate Section 8 of the B.C. Human Rights Code. The code says a person must not, without a bona fide and reasonable justification, discriminate against a person or class of persons regarding any accommodation, service or facility customarily available to the public.
Bottom line? The lesbian wants money. $20,000, to be exact. Based on this case, it’s no wonder the Canadian dollar features a loon.
Source: CNews
