Minnesota Club Cancels Comedian's Sold Out Show Over Good Joke A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good's death blew up online - the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling from the January 7 shooting. Club owner Bill Coll...
Minnesota Club Cancels Comedian's Sold Out Show Over Good Joke A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good's death blew up online - the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling from the January 7 shooting. Club owner Bill Collins cited threats, media frenzy, and street chaos as the reasons for the cancellation. "After discussions with, and concern from public authorities, legal counsel and staff, combined with heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder, we have determined the risks and related liabilities cannot be overcome," Collins told People Magazine . 👀Liberal Women👀 🤷🏻♀️😳Yikes, Ben Bankas just went there. Watch to the end.😳🤷🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/NmJ8jJue3f — 🇺🇸 𝓐𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓛 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓢 🇺🇸 (@AprilSpark1890) January 11, 2026 Outrage began to erupt when Bankas did a routine on Good, the Minneapolis woman killed on January 7 when her vehicle made contact with an ICE agent while attempting to flee, after she had been obstructing an active ICE operation. Bankas performed material about Good at Laugh It Up Comedy Club in Poughkeepsie, New York, on January 9 and January 10, just days after the shooting. H e posted video clips from those sets on Instagram, where one reel reportedly racked up nearly 400,000 likes. Bankas opened his bit by calling for a moment of silence for Good, then pivoting to say he hoped “that dog’s okay…and her pet,” a reference to Good’s dog, who was in the car with her, and her wife, Becca, who had been in the vehicle but left shortly before she told Renee to drive off while the agent was in front of her car. “ That’s what you don’t want when you’re dealing with the police — your lesbian wife saying ‘drive, baby, drive,’ ” he told the crowd. “Her last name was Good; that’s what I said after they shot her in the face,” he continued. He then backed off slightly, say...
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Joanne Appelbee says asking her 13-year-old son Austin to swim four hours through dangerous waters to get help after her family was swept out to sea was “one of the hardest decisions” she has ever made. “I knew he was the strongest and he could do it,” she told the ABC. “I would have never went because I wouldn’t have left the kids at sea, so I had to send somebody.” The Appelbee family were on ho...
Joanne Appelbee says asking her 13-year-old son Austin to swim four hours through dangerous waters to get help after her family was swept out to sea was “one of the hardest decisions” she has ever made. “I knew he was the strongest and he could do it,” she told the ABC. “I would have never went because I wouldn’t have left the kids at sea, so I had to send somebody.” The Appelbee family were on holiday in Quindalup, 200km (125 miles) south of Perth, when strong winds pushed their inflatable paddleboards and kayak offshore from Geographe Bay on Friday afternoon. In an interview with the BBC, Joanne explained the situation escalated rapidly while she was playing in the water with Austin and his younger siblings Beau, 12, and Grace, 8. It started with “a bit of fun” with two paddleboards and a kayak in shallow water at the beach, when the children “went out a bit too far”. “The wind picked up and it went from there,” she said. “We lost oars, and we drifted out further ... It kind of all went wrong very, very quickly. “Early on, we sent this young man [Austin] back in to try and get help because it didn’t look like we were that far from the shoreline,” she said. While Austin swam for the shore, Joanne and the children drifted further out to sea, soon losing sight of him. The sun set and the waves grew increasingly large. Wearing life jackets, they struggled to grab on to the boards. “I had assumed Austin had made it a lot quicker than he had,” Joanne said. As more time passed, she questioned whether her plan had worked. “If he hasn’t made it, what have I done? Have I made the wrong decision, and is anyone going to come and save my other two?” But Austin swam 4km until he reached the shore. “I was thinking about Mum, Beau and Grace … When I hit the floor I thought, how am I on land right now, is this a dream?” he said. “After that, I had to sprint 2km to get to the phone.” He reached his mother’s bag and rang emergency services at about 6pm local time. “I said, ‘I need h...
After this latest deluge of details to drop in the last few days, Downing Street has sought to be on the front foot: volunteering on the record statements marking each new development, and now seeking to pre-empt a Conservative attempt to squeeze from ministers details of the vetting process prior to Lord Mandelson's appointment to the Washington job.
After this latest deluge of details to drop in the last few days, Downing Street has sought to be on the front foot: volunteering on the record statements marking each new development, and now seeking to pre-empt a Conservative attempt to squeeze from ministers details of the vetting process prior to Lord Mandelson's appointment to the Washington job.
Passersby stopped Thailand ’s former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva every now and again to ask for selfies as the salt-and-pepper-haired leader walked through a bustling market in Bangkok, campaigning for general elections on Sunday. “Good to see you again, still handsome just like before,” said one noodle vendor, reflecting voters’ persisting warm feelings for the Oxford-trained economist, wh...
Passersby stopped Thailand ’s former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva every now and again to ask for selfies as the salt-and-pepper-haired leader walked through a bustling market in Bangkok, campaigning for general elections on Sunday. “Good to see you again, still handsome just like before,” said one noodle vendor, reflecting voters’ persisting warm feelings for the Oxford-trained economist, who is making an unexpected comeback to frontline politics. Abhisit’s return has fuelled a revival of his Democrat Party, reshaping an electoral contest that formerly looked like a three-way tussle among the ruling Bhumjaithai Party , the progressive People’s Party and the populist Pheu Thai Party. Advertisement “I just want to offer a choice and revive the party,” Abhisit, 61, said as he strolled down a major road in the capital, greeting office workers on lunch breaks. “Every time I meet people, they are frustrated with the lack of choice.” Advertisement Government employee Yuttapum Rattanamanee, a voter in the northeast, said he was one of four in his family backing the Democrats again because Abhisit came back to lead the party.
The White House’s top trade official has accused Beijing of “weaponising” its dominance in critical minerals , pledging that the US will use pricing, tariffs, and industrial policy to ensure its entire critical minerals supply chain is in the hands of America and its allies. Speaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnic...
The White House’s top trade official has accused Beijing of “weaponising” its dominance in critical minerals , pledging that the US will use pricing, tariffs, and industrial policy to ensure its entire critical minerals supply chain is in the hands of America and its allies. Speaking at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington on Tuesday, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the US needed to mine, process and refine critical minerals , and called on its allies to do the same to “break those chokepoints”. “We need to be capable of building and taking care of ourselves and making sure our allies are building and capable so that we can trust our supply chains,” he said. Advertisement “We’re going to set pricing policy. We’re going to set tariff policy. We’re going to create industrial policy.” Lutnick accused China of dominating various industries through “dumping” – by producing huge amounts of raw materials and then selling finished goods at below market price. Advertisement