Who went too far: Jerry Sadowitz or those who cancelled his Edinburgh fringe show? | Brian Logan

Questions of free speech offer no simple answers, but it's clear that this is a watershed moment in comedy If we don't defend free speech, we live in tyranny. That's the tenor of the coverage of the attack on Salman Rushdie this weekend. So is it also our take when a comedian uses "extreme racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny" onstage? That's the question surrounding the cancellation of Jerry Sadowitz's show on the Edinburgh fringe, and - spoiler alert - I, a mere comedy critic, am not certai...