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Comic bounces ‘puke’ patron

Comedian Jim Norton went ballistic on a patron at the Comedy Cellar in the West Village who dared to utter, “I don’t find this funny.” “The Opie & Anthony” regular attacked the man and his girlfriend, who talked during his act. He had the duo bounced from the club Wednesday after blasting the “pinstriped office puke.” As the couple was escorted out, Norton shouted, “I hope you get AIDS and hit by a taxi.” He continued berating them to the horrified audience. He added, “I would [bleep] his girlfriend.” Norton explained to us in an e-mail: “I never would slam somebody that hard unless they were being obnoxious pigs … He was every passive-aggressive, mid-level office puke I’ve ever encountered, and it felt good to slam him. ‘I hope you get AIDS and get hit by a taxi’ are obviously things that would never happen back-to-back as soon as a person walks out of the Comedy Cellar, but it was fun to say anyway. They were disruptive and then confrontational, and they got what they deserved.”