Warning: This is my Angry Face

It is kinda late and I just got home and am still miffed about something that happened tonight.
This is my rant (slightly in the form of a letter I want to write):

To Whom it may concern,

I attended your comedy night on Wednesday, December 19^th and would like to bring a few things to your attention.

I came with a group of 6 girls and sat in the front.  We expected some heckling, and can take a joke.  However, there are a few things that happened that crossed the line. 

The first, a comedian came on stage and spent his entire time berating my friend for texting.  Who was she texting?  A woman whom that same comedian had drugged and raped.  Why was my friend texting? to avoid looking in his face. 

He recognized her and I am guessing he suspected who she was texting.  He tried to grab her phone, physically touching her and screamed in her face.  He called her names that no woman should ever be called, said things to her that would get any normal person fired,  and spent the rest of his set screaming in her face.  His anger was real.  Hosting a venue in which it is ok for a registered sex offender to publicly harass someone is not ok.

The next comedian continued the “joke” by calling this same friend to the front and telling her to stay behind him “this is what you get for texting”.  He “joked” about gang raping her with seven of his friends.  He continued with the direct name calling and invitations until she walked off the stage.  Following the performance, he tried to give her a hug, said something like “I’m sorry, it was all in fun.”  He then said something along the lines of “but I was serious about the rape, and here are some of my friends…”  He used to word “rape” while physically touching her and after his set.  How is this not sexual harassment?  

One of the interesting things about this event is that I really don't think this would have been tolerated in another city.  Why is it ok here?

The last comedian tried to lighten everything up and did seek us (I had been called out as well, by another comedian for being Mormon, this was light-hearted, however.) out and apologize.  He was appalled.   At least we weren't the only ones...