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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown

Jerry Sadowitz show cancelled over ‘extreme racism, homophobia and misogyny’

Jerry Sadowitz
The Pleasance theatre in Edinburgh said Jerry Sadowitz’s show was cancelled after an unprecedented number of complaints. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Jerry Sadowitz had his show cancelled at the Edinburgh fringe because its content was “extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny,” promoters have said.

The comedian, whose material has for decades been provocatively and unashamedly offensive, had what was meant to be the second of two shows pulled because of an unprecedented number of complaints, the Pleasance theatre in Edinburgh said.

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