Turkey detains comedian over jokes about Erdogan and the Quran
A Turkish court has ordered comedian Deniz Goktas to be jailed pending trial for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
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Turkish court sentences comedian for comments about dictator
A Turkish court has ordered comedian Deniz Goktas to be jailed pending trial for allegedly insulting religious values and President ...
Comedian Li Haoshi Takes Act to Chinese Speakers Abroad After Beijing Ban
What You Need to Know • Chizi, a prominent Chinese stand-up comedian, performed a controversial show at the National University ...
Comedian Lisa Spencer loses job after Aboriginal skit backlash
The Australian comedian Lisa Jane Spencer has been dismissed from her job after facing severe backlash over a controversial video. ...
Comedian describes experience of being pinned by 600-pound fridge
Laura Clery, a comedian, shared a harrowing experience on social media detailing a near-fatal incident in which a 600-pound refrigerator ...
Composer of ‘Lion King’ files $27 million lawsuit against comedian over joke
Zimbabwean comedian Learnmore Jonasi is facing a $27 million lawsuit from South African composer Lebohang Morake, known as Lebo M, ...
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey supports Palestine | Gaza.
Irish comedian and civil rights activist Tadhg Hickey shares his experience aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla when it was intercepted ...
Russia Imprisons Comedian Artemy Ostani for War Joke
Artemy Ostanin sentenced to more than five years in a penal colony after joking about a ‘legless’ war veteran.Russian comedian ...
Comedian Stanley Baxter Dies at Age 99
Scottish actor and comedian Stanley Baxter has died at the age of 99. Born in Glasgow in 1926, he was ...
UN Complaint Filed Over UAE Detention of Sudanese Comedian
A US human rights lawyer, Suad Abdel Aziz, has lodged a complaint with the OHCHR regarding the detention of Sudanese ...
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