(Source) Apparently some professional jokesters have thin skins. Stand-up comic Dan Nainan, a comedy club road warrior whose credits include performing for President Obama, was arrested for allegedly punching a reporter in the face Wednesday night after his set at the Washington, D.C. Improv, when he learned that the journalist had been heckling him via Twitter.
The competition was overshadowed by Nainan’s loss of self-control. Rogin said he punched him in the jaw and pushed him in response to two tweets he wrote disparaging the comic’s humor as decidedly unfunny. ‘Dan Nainan was funny until he dusted off his 2005 [Hurricane] Katrina jokes in a gratingly bad GWB [George W. Bush] impression,’ Rogin wrote.
In a second tweet, he added that the half-Japanese, half-Indian wisecracker had just made ‘his umpteenth joke about how Asians cant distinguish between letters “L” and “R”. Election, erection, we get it.’ Eleven minutes later, Rogin tweeted an update: ‘Dan Nainan just punched me in the face,’ he wrote. ‘Not a joke.’ Rogin was overheard afterward saying that Nainan had approached him in the back of the comedy club and punched him.
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So I saw this story last night and thought it was absurd. I mean you’re a comedian man, no one wants to be a guy who can give it but can’t take it. You make fun of people for a living, if someone busts your balls, walking to the back of the room and punching them in the face is probably not a good look. But then I woke up this morning and found the story and it had pictures of both guys attached and now I don’t even know what to think. I mean I was expecting a Lenny Clarke or Joe Rogan type tough guy comedian. Someone who actually looked like they could throw a punch. Not a fucking squid in a tuxedo.
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Killer thumbs up
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And the guy he punched? I genuinely hate his face.
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He also uses the word “tweeps”
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Thats a tattle tale right there if I’ve ever seen one. That’s a guy who tells you to hit him, then won’t try to defend himself so that he can sue you for all your worth.
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So now I think I’m on the comedians side. If you’re a nerd, and you muster up the balls to actually punch someone in the face, I feel like that should be legal. It’s not like you’re getting punched by Tyson. Take your slap like a man and move on. What’s the worst Dan Nainan is going to do? Scratch your cornea? Come on man. If you complain about getting punched by that guy you’re a thousand times worse than a comedian who can’t take criticism.
