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MONDAY, JANUARY 5 This extraordinarily upsetting series of days kicked off with the first idiotic attack on a purveyor of comedy of the week. The scene of today’s blessedly nonfatal attack: the Local 907 pub in Renton, which this evening hosted a comedy show MCed by the stand-up Dylan Avila, who was about to introduce the next performer when a man rushed the stage swinging a baseball bat. As KOMO reports, Avila was struck twice in the head before fellow comics and audience members subdued the attacker, whom some of them recognized. “According to witnesses, the man with the bat had tried out a stand-up routine a few weeks before,” reported Joel Moreno at KOMO. “In it, he claimed to be Jesus Christ, but apparently the bit bombed with audiences. Each week the man pushed the same routine, Avila said, so he banned him from the show. Whether that is the motive for the attack is unclear.” Whatever the motive, Avila—a well-regarded comedian and a father of three—sustained a double skull fracture that required the surgical placement of two titanium plates in his head as well as four stitches to his ear. As for his alleged attacker, identified by Q13 Fox as Steve Baldwin: He’s being held on $250,000 bail and is expected to be charged with first-degree assault…
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