Roasts are the
Rodney Dangerfields of free speech: They don't get any respect. But
as Contributing Editor Greg Beato writes, years before Lenny Bruce
got busted for subjecting audiences to obscene grammar lessons or
George Carlin compiled his list of seven words you can never say on
television, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, and other Friars Club
yuk-meisters were pushing the boundaries of free expression.
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