Modified On June 2, 2009
The attorney who defended Larry Flynt and Ike Turner died Wednesday after a fall hiking above Machu Picchu. He moonlighted as a comedian.
Kahn began moonlighting as a standup comedian in the mid-’90s. His business card read “Kenny Kahn. World’s Funniest Attorney.”
His comedic explorations began after a brush with death in 1987 when he was stabbed in the chest with an ice pick in a Torrance courtroom by a man he had defended for assault on a police officer.
Isn’t that how we all started?