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FRANK v. BROAD. CO.

119 A.D.2d 252 (1986)

Maurice Frank, Respondent-Appellant, v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc., et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

September 29, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cahill Gordon & Reindel (Dean Ringel and Paula A. Franzese of counsel), and Sandra S. Baron and Roberta R. Brackman for appellants-respondents. (One brief filed.)

Schwarzfeld, Ganfer & Shore (Neal Schwarzfeld of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

WEINSTEIN, J. P., LAWRENCE and KUNZEMAN, JJ., concur.

KOOPER, J.

We have occasion today to address the issue of when humor or jest at the expense of an identifiable private person becomes defamation. It is an issue that since the turn of the century has arisen but rarely in New York's appellate courts,1 and never at all with respect to the medium of television. The principal question in this case is whether the plaintiff's amended complaint...

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