Sounds eerily familiar except for whole “who got in sh*t for this” part:
Sweeney told police he was talking to friends between shows when a woman threw a glass of beer at him.
Police arrested Erica F. Porzio, 24, of Revere, who they charged not only with assaulting Sweeney, but also the club’s owner, Steven Castraberti, who suffered a broken finger when he said he tried to restrain her.
Sweeney said he was approached by Porzio who told him she was offended by a comment he made concerning her sexuality during the show.
Porzio’s father said Sweeney made derogatory remarks about her off stage, not during his comedy routine.
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Alas, as the Shecky folks point out, even America not quite what it used to be:
It’s even more astonishing that anyone would tangle with a Boston comic!
If she had done that in the 80s, she’d be in a full body cast right now.
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But she might have been too high to care:
And, seemingly ever since, “Boston comedy” has meant something aside from nostalgia for days of cocaine and tequila.
(Not that there wasn’t that too – onstage, Solomita noted how difficult it was for comics to get health coverage because many insurance companies “consider being a Boston comic during the 1980s a ‘pre-existing condition.’”)
