Florida man calls police on comic Ahmed Ahmed after a joke, he claims, made him and his wife feel 'very uncomfortable.'
A Florida man called police to report a comedian of Middle Eastern descent who he believed had told a joke that showed support for terrorism.
After a smattering of cheers, Ahmed slyly responded:"All right. We got a handful of us in in here, nice. But, hey, it only takes one of us ... to tell a joke."The man called the Collier County Sheriff's Department and told a deputy that Ahmed was organizing people of Middle Eastern descent to possibly commit terrorism.
“I've told that joke about 1,000 times around the world," Ahmed said."Whatever he heard and what I said are two different things." Deputies showed up to the club Sunday before Ahmed's set that night, briefly interviewed him and left without incident.
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