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Go to my DUmmie FUnnies BLOG about the HILARIOUS Birth of the Laugh Factory comedy club. Yours Truly was present at the creation. Also I reveal the deep dark SHOCKING secret of the Laugh Factory's owner, Jamie Masada.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — The organizer of a comedy camp for underprivileged youth, who introduced Michael Jackson’s accuser to the entertainer, testified Tuesday about his efforts to help the boy through his recovery from cancer. Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, said the boy attended the camp with his brother and sister in 1999 and worked on a standup act. He also described going to see the boy in a hospital while the youngster was struggling through chemotherapy for cancer. “Oh God, don’t bring that memory back,” Masada said of the boy’s illness. Masada, taking the stand...

Figure in Michael Jackson Case Says Threatened Thu Jan 22, 9:19 PM ET By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The boy Michael Jackson (news) is accused of molesting badly needs a kidney transplant and his mother is keeping him away from news about the sensational case for fear of triggering a relapse of his cancer, a family friend said on Thursday. Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory comedy club on the Sunset Strip, also told reporters at a news conference that the ailing teenager's mother had been threatened during visits to Jackson's Neverland Valley Ranch before the...

The California comedy club owner who introduced Michael Jackson to his 13-year-old accuser said yesterday that he received death threats for defending the ailing child. "I'm getting threatening phone calls - if I don't shut up, they have a bullet for me," Jamie Masada said at a press conference at the Laugh Factory. "I took the calls very seriously [but] I'm not going to shut up. . . . If something happens to me, I just wanted you guys to know." Masada said he does not know who was behind the calls, and he did not accuse anyone in Jackson's...

<p>SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- Michael Jackson was formally charged yesterday with repeatedly molesting a cancer-stricken boy invited to his Neverland Ranch, setting the stage for one of the most sensational celebrity trials this Internet-wired, 24-hour-cable world has ever seen.</p> <p>The nine-count felony complaint charged Mr. Jackson with seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent.</p>

LOS ANGELES - A comedy club owner who says he introduced Michael Jackson to the cancer-stricken boy he is accused of molesting said Thursday the child is in such poor health that his remaining kidney is failing. Jamie Masada, owner of The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, said he brought Jackson and the child together about two years ago — soon after doctors gave the boy three weeks to live. He said the boy expressed an interest in meeting Jackson and Masada made "a few phone calls." "The kid is not doing very good," Masada said at a Thanksgiving dinner...

The cancer kid in the Michael Jackson sex scandal is sick again and living in poverty - while the star's handlers vow to crush anyone who maligns the self-styled King of Pop. Jamie Masada, the Hollywood comedy club owner who first brought together Jackson and the boy, visited the 13-year-old a few days ago and was shocked. "He only has one kidney and it's failing him, and part of his face is swollen up," Masada told the Daily News yesterday. "His cancer's in remission, but he worries if the cancer comes back, what's going to happen." Masada met the boy...

HThe mother of Gavin Arvizo, the 12-year-old who sparked controversyÊbyÊrevealingÊhe shares a bedroom with Michael Jackson,ÊhasÊspokenÊoutÊin support of the beleaguered star. JanetÊArvizoÊsaidÊsheÊis not worried and is happy leaving her children in Jackson's care. She added: ÒAll of my kids have stayed over with Michael. I am comfortable with that. They are happy with him and are hoping to travel the world with him. He is their angel.Ó Surviving on benefits, single mother Arvizo brought up her threeÊchildrenÊDavelin,Ê16, Gavin, 12, and Star, 11, in a run-down district of Los Angeles before Jackson lifted the family out of poverty. But it was...