NIPOMO, CA – Appearing for the fifth time in as many months at the High Hat Comedy Club & Lounge, third-rate comedian Tyson Hearn took a moment during his routine to honor troops serving overseas. “Do we have any military men or women here tonight? Any active duty or retired?” Hearn asked a sparse crowd after a joke about drowning kittens. “Great. What branch are you in, man? Marine? That’s great. Folks, let’s give the Marine up front here a round of applause.” Before returning to his well-honed material on O.J. Simpson, famous lesbians, and pedophilia, Hearn went on to applaud all troops serving abroad, extolling their willingness to put themselves in harm’s way. “I never take for granted those willing to do that,” Hearn said. “Probably because I know I couldn’t. Shit, if someone aimed a gun at me, I’d probably piss my pants and blow my own nuts off.” Hearn finished his set with a pair of jokes about roofies, an impersonation of Muhammad Ali giving a blowjob, and some observational humor about “jail-bait.”