CHAPTER 129

Author: Whose side did you take?

Noam: I took my side. I mean, I didn’t take anybody’s side. I took the side of … Look, I mean, Kurt called the guy’s wife a cunt. Now that’s never a good idea. It’s fighting words, and of course the guy hit him. You’re never supposed to hit somebody just because they call your wife a cunt, but it’s a predictable outcome when you do call somebody’s wife a cunt. So I thought Kurt shouldn’t have called her a cunt. I thought the guy should not have hit Kurt. I thought Kurt shouldn’t have hit him back. It’s a whole unfortunate sequence of events, but in the end if there was anybody who was really legally wrong it was the guy who took the first swing, which was the audience member.

Author: So this is like, you’re dealing with a business where strange things happen, because if you ran a doughnut shop those things wouldn’t be happening, but you’re dealing with people who’ve had alcohol, and you’re dealing with comedians who are sometimes difficult …

Noam: And you know, the thing is, I have no control over what they do on stage, and the first person who’s going to get a law suit is me.