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Comedy Club a Gas

MUDCAT FALLS -- Popular Barleycorn District destination, Porky's Comedy Club, which until last week held hope to spark a revival in the dormant downtown entertainment district, has been closed indefinitely after a raid by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Saturday night.

DEA agents served a federal search warrant in the middle of Bic Flickstein's politically charged routine on Bosco, finding a complex network of valves and plumbing leading to nitrous oxide tanks.

"We believe that the management was spiking the atmosphere with laughing gas," said an unidentified undercover agent speaking to the press under strict anonymity from behind a screen, "to artificially make the comics seem more humorous."

The club, which had languished for years until being bought out by Chumwater Entertainment Group, gained instant notoriety after film of an incident involving a hysterically laughing woman who had to be restrained and committed aired relentlessly on cable news channels this past spring, after which acts played to standing room only crowds at every show.

Club manager and close Chumwater crony Happy Triptafyn, who was arrested and later released on a fifty thousand dollar bond, denied any wrong doing and vowed that he and Porky's would be vindicated at trial.

"This is government oppression, pure and simple," comic Flickstein cried out to reporters as he was being frisked and handcuffed. "This wasn't about drugs. They just can't take all the Bush jokes, the pansies."



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