Brawl Breaks Out After Comic Is Dragged From Stage

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New York City cult comedy hero Big Jay Oakerson was dragged off the stage by a furious fan Thursday night, Page Six has learned — setting off a melee, as fans and fellow comics leaped in to help Oakerson.

Joel Richardson, who owns Philly-area comedy club Soul Joel’s, tells us that a woman had been heckling stand-ups all evening, and when headliner Oakerson went on stage, Richardson told him to give a nod if he wanted her booted. Oakerson declined, Richardson told us, and said he’d use the belligerent guest in his act instead.

But when she continued to disrupt the show to the point that Oakerson — who’s appeared on “Crashing” and “Louie” — couldn’t do his act, he called on Richardson to get her out of there, just minutes before the end of his set.

Richardson says that as he was escorting the woman — plus her husband, her mother, mother-in-law and brother — out of the show, the audience began to cheer.

The ovation seemed to set off her brother, who rushed the stage — which was elevated around four or five feet off the floor — grabbed Oakerson by the left leg and yanked him violently to the floor in front of the stage.

Meanwhile, comic Luis J. Gomez — who hosts the “Legion of Skanks” podcast with Oakerson — charged from the back of the stage, and leaped onto Oakerson and his alleged attacker as they were “fighting back and forth” on the floor.

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