New at Reason: Greg Beato on How the Friars Club Roasts Expanded the First Amendment

July 28, 2009

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.

Read all about it here.