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Article: Punch-line power.(comedian takes gay jokes to the Bible belt)(Brief Article)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2000
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Comedian Lorne Newman has taken his gay jokes to the Bible Belt--and he says he's nearly been belted
Stand-up comedian Lorne Newman insists he doesn't have a death wish. Still, he has been known to take his gay-affirming act to straight clubs across the Bible Belt, where he's been threatened and denounced onstage, even heckled once by an agent who booked him. Of course, not everyone in the Deep South is a homophobe, but the region isn't exactly known for its embracing milieu. Once, Newman says, a man in the audience told him point-blank, "If I had my gun, I'd shoot you!"
So what's a nice Jewish jokester from New York City doing schlepping across the ...
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