"Holocaust joke" comedians hit back at critics
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Two stand-up comics accused of making  light of the Holocaust at the Edinburgh Fringe festival hit  back at their critics on Tuesday, igniting a debate about  where, if anywhere, to draw the line in comedy.
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Seinfeld actor Michael Richards, who was Kramer in the sitcom, apologises for racism towards a heckler.
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Patrick Swayze has joined several of Mel Gibson's celebrity friends in defending the actor, who in a drunken tirade blamed Jews for the world's wars.
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Over the years, Yasser Arafat was the subject of some pretty bad jokes. When he returned to the Gaza Strip in triumph in 1994 after the PLO signed the Oslo peace accords with Israel, Palestinians
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Taking the mickey out of these criminals is a serious necessity - by laughing at them we deny them all dignity.
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Best-selling humorist Ephraim Kishon, the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who captured Israel's foibles in biting satires but often felt underappreciated at home, has died at his home in Switzerland of an apparent heart attack. He was 80.
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A stand-up comedian famous for gatecrashing the 21st birthday party of Britain's Prince William stormed a sale of watercolours thought to have been painted by Adolf Hitler.
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The director of Israel's Holocaust memorial has said he was "appalled and surprised" by comments three Roman Catholic bishops from Germany made that compared conditions in the West Bank to the Holocaust.
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The Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Tuesday denounced comedian Jerry Lewis' use of the word "fag" on Lewis' annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy and called on him to apologize.
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Tycho:  The first part of this strip is from an actual conversation.  I'm pretty sure he was joking, though.
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On the heels of the Republican National Convention, New York City is being invaded by comedians. "I'll have more protesters," Drew Carey told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday. "But I doubt there'll be any extra police."
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The political commentator uses a taboo word and is roundly booed. But TIME's John Cloud says the fault isn't in Coulter's technique, just in her choice of joke.
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Publisher Judith Regan's alleged complaints of a "Jewish cabal" and other remarks that led to her firing were condemned by the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday.
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This documentary, by an arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, seeks to stir up outrage about recent bursts of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, one of the men and their lawyer said Friday.
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Comedy mirrors culture, but observers say that many men and women find attractive, aggressively funny women threatening.
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The Israeli ambassador in Berlin on Tuesday criticised comments by a German bishop in which he compared the situation of the Palestinians to Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.