# Fred Willard arrested in a porno theater **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716 "2012-07-19T13:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/21 "2012-07-19T17:41:56Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > All that means is that we only hear about it when the person busted is a celebrity. Or are you saying that only celebrities ever get busted for this? > I can understand why people in parks would complain, but are you suggesting that there was a complaint by someone else in the porno theater? :eek: > > But, come on Fred, just get with the 21st century and get a computer! For us it’s families using the playground. As for the theater I have no idea. But since it is private property the theater owner might be complaining. He might think that the patrons are getting out of hand. So to speak. As for the celebrity/regular person getting caught, I was commenting because I don’t hear about this type of bust being a normal thing. It isn’t around here. I don’t know about LA. The comment I quoted implied that lapd is doing this often. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/22 "2012-07-19T17:45:46Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > OMG! That’s not butter!!! I can’t believe it. ---
**Author:** ![tellthetruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tellthetruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellthetruth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/23 "2012-07-19T17:51:37Z")
They caught him Red Handed… ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/24 "2012-07-19T17:53:57Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > I can’t believe it. I saw what you did there and that’s funny! But an adult man in an adult theater doing \ adult things.. I mean, you’re not there for the acting just you know, my IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/25 "2012-07-19T17:56:01Z")
“Met her? _Your honor!_” ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/26 "2012-07-19T17:57:33Z")
It was our monthly “At Ease” weekend. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/27 "2012-07-19T18:01:52Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > OMG! That’s not butter!!! “Ptui! But it’s still salty!” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/28 "2012-07-19T18:02:07Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > As a show of solidarity for her friend and co-star Willard, I understand Parker Posey is planning on giving the audience a little treat during a matinee showing of _Ice Age-Continental Drift_ later this afternoon… don’t get. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/29 "2012-07-19T18:22:31Z")
Can’t link to it from my phone but the LA Times says he was arrested by LAPD Vice doing a “routine inspection” of the theater. I have know idea what their definition of routine or inspection is. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/30 "2012-07-19T18:23:55Z")
I thought the point of porno theaters was so you could masturbate to the movies in the little booth thingies. Or so I hear. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/31 "2012-07-19T19:01:15Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Can’t link to it from my phone but the LA Times says he was arrested by LAPD Vice doing a “routine inspection” of the theater. I have know idea what their definition of routine or inspection is. Speculation: Here in San Diego, vice goes around to all the strip joints every few years to ensure that they are complying with the “no touch” clauses in the strip club regulations. Sometimes, a club will get it’s liqour license pulled for a year. Maybe LA vice is making sure the theatre isn’t being used as a front for prostitution or something. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/32 "2012-07-19T19:27:05Z")
I keep remembering his improv from _For Your Consideration_: “Say what you will about blind prostitutes, you’ve really gotta hand it to them.” Maybe he was telling that joke and needed a visual. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/33 "2012-07-19T19:31:17Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > I thought the point of porno theaters was so you could masturbate to the movies in the little booth thingies. Or so I hear. Not all porn cinemas have private booths (those are peep shows). This was probably a regular theater with an orchestra, a balcony, and a lobby with an, uhm, refreshment stand. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/34 "2012-07-19T19:33:22Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Speculation: > > Here in San Diego, vice goes around to all the strip joints every few years to ensure that they are complying with the “no touch” clauses in the strip club regulations. Sometimes, a club will get it’s liqour license pulled for a year. > > Maybe LA vice is making sure the theatre isn’t being used as a front for prostitution or something. That could explain why they were in the theater on a routine inspection. But they didn’t arrest him for that, they arrested him for doing something by himself. So they must, in LA or Hollywood or whatever the jurisdiction is, have a local ordinance against masturbation in “public” which they are apparently interpreting to include adult theaters. Who would have thought in this day and age anyone would still be that prissy about what goes on in a venue like that? Back in the 70s I remember going to an adult theater in Denver, and they not only had signs up forbidding masturbation, but they claimed to have cameras trained on the audience so that they could catch anyone who was actually doing it. I thought such things had gone the way of all flesh… Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/35 "2012-07-19T19:33:30Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Maybe he was telling that joke and needed a visual. I don’t think he needs to rely on visual aids; as a comedian he can hold his own. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/36 "2012-07-19T19:38:35Z")
He just went after it like it was made out of ham. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/37 "2012-07-19T19:42:38Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I don’t think he needs to rely on visual aids; as a comedian he can hold his own. ba dump BUMP! ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/38 "2012-07-19T23:36:46Z")
Just saw that PBS has fired Fred Willard from his gig on the new show _Market Warriors_… Gotta be honest, I am a little shocked that they acted so quickly, as I always thought PBS was one of the more liberal organizations out there, and they don’t seem to be in line with your “Moral Majority” bluenose types, and also I can’t remember another celeb getting the axe less than 24 hours after their various scandals broke, usually they are quietly let go in the days or weeks afterwards… ---
**Author:** ![tellthetruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@tellthetruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellthetruth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/39 "2012-07-19T23:40:06Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Just saw that PBS has fired Fred Willard from his gig on the new show _Market Warriors_… > > Gotta be honest, I am a little shocked that they acted so quickly, as I always thought PBS was one of the more liberal organizations out there, and they don’t seem to be in line with your “Moral Majority” bluenose types, and also I can’t remember another celeb getting the axe less than 24 hours after their various scandals broke, usually they are quietly let go in the days or weeks afterwards… Rick Sanchez at CNN ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716/40 "2012-07-19T23:44:02Z")
> [@tellthetruth](#): > > Rick Sanchez at CNN ??? (Also, I see that several sources are saying that Fred is 78, not 72.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-willard-arrested-in-a-porno-theater/628716.md?page=3)