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...fans weren't ready for it. Carlin got thrown out of Las Vegas clubs twice for material that today would seem tame (one offending routine was about his "skinny ass"). At the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., his jokes about Vietnam nearly caused an audience riot. "One big blond guy, who would have made a casting director's dream for one of those Nazi officers, said, 'How would you know? You've never been shot at!'" Carlin recalled years later. "Then it became an uproar. Some were standing and leaving; some were shaking their fists at me." Carlin...
...thrown out of Las Vegas twice for material that today would seem tame (one offending routine was about his own "skinny ass"). At the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., he so riled up a conservative crowd with his jokes about Vietnam that he nearly caused an audience riot. Even Johnny Carson banned him as a Tonight Show guest for a time because of his reputation as a drug abuser...
...visceral, sinking feeling, that - something Sweden must have endured in the waning seconds of its last gasp loss to Spain. Then we nearly got trampled by Russian fans swarming on to a stadium shuttle bus-a frightening feeling. That could well describe Italy's experience when the Dutch ran riot over them in their opening match, 3-0. We also got hauled off the road in Salzburg by a motorcycle cop who insisted, in German, that our license plate was illegal. We nervously nodded and nodded in English and waited and waited until, just like the Greek team, he gave...
...last, our impatience is rewarded and I must say the result is a laff riot. Well, all right, a laff scuffle - a picture that isn't quite as funny as it might be, but is as funny as it needs to be. Agreeably directed by Dennis Dugan, conceived by its star, Adam Sandler, and one-third written by him (his co-conspirators are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow), the picture bears many of the latter's trademark moves. That is to say it is simultaneously a little bit vulgar and a little bit sentimental and comes out as a virtually...
...This wasn't a riot! These people were just disrupting society ... The government will solve their problems.' ZAO MING, an official from Dujiangyan, China's foreign-affairs office, after hundreds of grieving parents were dragged away by local police during their protest over the poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake, killing thousands of children...