The Onion has taken to SCOTUS to demand the right to remain funny.
, self-titled “America’s Finest News Source,” filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that included this headline: “Ohio Police Officers Arrest, Prosecute Man Who Made Fun of Them on Facebook.” But this time, The Onion wasn’t joking. It was in fact defending an Ohio man who, in Onion-like style, hadI played some tough rooms when I was a full-time comedian, but never was I threatened with jail time for my jokes.
What happened to Novak is deeply troubling for those who believe that we should be able to mock the police, or anyone in power, by way of comedic parody, without fear of prison time. Thankfully, The Onion is leaning into its role as our “finest news source,” and sounding alarm bells about the case. But apparently the police were most upset by the jokes made at their expense, such as the one that claimed new officers would be recruited based on “a 15 question multiple choice definition test followed by a hearing test” and saidNovak quickly took down his parody Facebook page after a Parma police officeron local news explaining that the page had triggered phone calls to the police and that police there were criminally investigating who was behind the Facebook page.
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