In January, Marilyn Drake's photo was featured alongside a front page story in The New York Times . In February and March, talk show host Jay Leno made the picture the butt of his jokes on "The Tonight Show." Now, Drake is going after the comedian in a lawsuit in which she claims his comments suggested that she engaged in bestiality and opened her up to ridicule for her ovum donation. A spokeswoman for NBC said that "the law is clear that humor like this is firmly protected by the First Amendment."
April 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Back in January, Marilyn Drake’s photo was featured alongside a serious front page story in the New York Times. In February and March, talk show host Jay Leno made the same picture the butt of his jokes on “The Tonight Show.”
In April, Drake went after the comedian in San Francisco Superior Court, filing a lawsuit that accuses Leno of defaming her with a joke in one of his “headlines” segments, in which he delivers one-liners playing off real news stories or advertisements.
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