Where There's Comedy, Cops Have Rarely Been Far Away

Comedian joe licit revealed he was reported to police for a joke. On the surface, this may seem like a catastrophic sense of humor failure. But as brian logan argues, where there's comedy, cops have seldom been far away. Stand up self image has deep roots in prosecutions of lenny bruce and george carlin. To kick the copse out of comedy would be to divest the art form of its heroic history as a canary in the mind for social progress.