Show - - 1 at the no tiene class estupido" To Carter's chagrin the patrons sued him and the hotel for a whopping $100000 and wouldn't drop the action till he contributed $5000 to a local charity Unfortunately Carter had allowed his defamation insurance to lapse only a few days before the incident and had to pay the whole amount out of his own pocket ALAN KING has been enjoined it times from using — or repeating — gags that rubbed ' someone the wrong Once by a way whole island! h broken-Spanis- drop-dea- table: "Much° 4ts(7)114 ' k - 1 JTj fl b - - IL A number a punch el protested officially ' to the State Department because I com! ilm ta 1 plained on televi- Alan King sion of being bitten he says there" by mosquitoes also had to King apologize to an entire city after he cracked "I went to Philadelphia last week — but it was closed" The outrage from the City of Brotherly Love including letters from the Mayor and the Governor of Pennsylvania was so vehement he had to ad in "Variety" and take a e ad in Philadelphia papers a to apologize Cost: $1400 Television has grown so wary of treading on people's toes that about all comedians have left to joke about are their own families And when PHYLLIS snttxm — remember "Fang"? — and Woody Allen made cracks both were sued about their comic a TV needs the Actually soul of a seismograph to know where the next rumble of public wrath is coming from citonot Goan once did a skit making fun of a swaybacked horse and promptly got t5o letters from angry swaybacked-hors- e lovers On the !KAMM Ravi show Nat Iliken wrote a skit in which a tiny canary's chirp was annoying someone A shot was heard offstage Then a pitiful peep Then silence Next day — boom! ! - ' T1 1'1 I 7 TI (7) ri v ifa comedians can tell you a lawsuit or top-not- ch in the nose might tithe price — Cr LESLIZ LIZ full-pa- " I've been threatened n the past 11 with a lawsuit in Cleveland beaten Miami Beach and to a pulp shot at in Las Vegas" Little JACKIE ammo whose only year in -- aim in life is to make audiences laugh has joined the growing list of comedians who are finding their lives fraught with perils that would make a piker of Pauline "It's reached a point" says KENNY "that when I read a comic voussassaa was 'socko' in Cincinnati I figure he's been flattened by a i 1 t 1 t: 4 ''' ! tf I ) )' -- -- 1 2 Nowathe 1 the throws the customer throw punchline and days I patron punch" jatio Mayon Nearly ics today all comare cov- ered by slander insurance but even Lloyd's of London now rate them in the category "I remember one time in a night bad-ris- k club a couple of years ago" says jolly "UNCLE 11111T1E BEAM "I made the mistake of needling a fellow who was sitting at one of the front tables with a flashy blonde All I said was 'Hey it's novelty night — you're out with your own wife' After the show I thought I was a big hit A waiter came over and told me that Table 12 wanted to see me "'Do you always make wisecracks like that?' growled Table 12 grabbing my necktie " 'That's my style sir' I gulped as he tightened my tie like a noose "'Well this is my style' he growled he grabbed a steak knife and tried to plunge it into any hand on the table c "Puerto Rico RifilQUCil'a 0 lines d big-mou- th Luckily a friend of mine bumped him the blade went be- tween my fingers" Years ago Jot C Loma almost lost his life when a Chi- cago hoodlum 47) e named Machine Gun McGurn trapped him in his hotel room and brutally beat and slashed his vocal chords so badly he had to learn to talk all over again Every comedian — even the innocuous types like WOODY ALLEN solo plawiturr DON KNOTTS and WALLY COK — has a ready file of "drop-dea- d lines" to silence hecklers but sometimes a line comes closer to dropdrop-dea- d comic than the target ping the JACK coarrEs discovered this truth in a Chicago night club when he put down one noisy patron with "The war's over now — you can get parts your head" The offended burly bruiser later lurched towards Carter's dressing room with the announced intention of fracturing all the larger bones in his body Luckily fellow-comJACK IL LEONARD who tipped the scales at 345 pounds at that particular juncture happened to be in the audience and rushed backstage for ic "The kid's wheedled new in Chi- crazy" Jack ' i "Ile's cago He didn't mean it Give him a break" To this day Carter credits the erstwhile"Fat Jack" with saving his life The as Jaa Carl" strange case of Jackie Mason however bids fair to get further out of hand The trouble started a few months ago in Las Vegas where Mason was sharing the bill at the Aladdin Hotel with Joe E Lewis Mason's routine bristled with wisecracks involving celebrities many show-bi- z After the show Jackie began getting threats — mysterious phone calls warning him to take some of the barb out of his act or else But he refused to censor his material A few days later someone fired two pistol shots through the window of Mason's hotel suite The comic happened to be in the other room The bullets went through the mattress of his bed "I think they just meant to scare me" says Mason "They did I called the cops A week later in an engagement at the Saxony Hotel in Miami Beach I continued to get threats and warnings One night I was parked in front of a girl's house saying good night Some bruiser pulled me out of the car spun me around and beat me up so badly I needed 15 stitches on my face I also needed a new girl — she took the hint and left town "The police haven't solved either attack But I know exactly what gags certain bigshots were objecting to — it's only a matter of time before we move in on them" often find The top lawsuits even more of an annoyance than physical combat In San Juan Puerto Rico Jack Carter lost patience with a table of g guests in a hotel night club who insisted on chattering throughout his act Ile aimed some laugh-gette- Spanish-speakin- 10 - rs ge half-pag- es Bird-watchi- societies every- where were mad as wet hens sio catsaa had to alter the ap-- pearance of his thick-spectacle- d s - - 4 t bop musician char- - i acter Mr Cool 84 H4 Gets after NBC got a letter of protest from a Maryland School for the Blind But Boa swim is one comic who did the last laugh On TV one night get Bob cracked "My hotel room in this town is so small the rats are A few days later Bob learned the hotel was going to sue for damages So on a subsequent show he retracted — "I'm sorry I said the rats in my hotel were They are not" (INC tow ) stoop-shouldere- d" 'If stoop-shoulder- 4 |