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  Aaron Barschak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aaron Barschak (born 1966) styles himself as a " Comedy Terrorist " and fringe UK politician.
Barschak's first comedy show after the party was at the Bound and Gagged comedy club in Tufnell Park, London in July 2003.
Barschak also stood in the Brent East by-election of 2003 coming 14th of the 16 candidates and gaining 37 votes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Barschak   (214 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Party crashing comic says he kissed the prince- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
Barschak said the man offered to walk him back to the party and checked him in at a police lodge, telling officers that he had found a lost guest.
Barschak said police gave him directions and he was led through the castle by the contractor.
Barschak said he wasn't challenged by staff until after he had finished singing for Prince William, the second-in-line to the throne, and had left the room and ordered some champagne.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1056505786980_31?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory   (618 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Aaron Barschak - 'comedy terrorist'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
AARON Barschak spoke to a police officer and set off six intruder alarms as he gatecrashed Prince...
AARON Barschak experienced a taste of his own medicine yesterday when his Fringe show was ambushed...
AARON Barschak, the "Comedy Terrorist", made his first appearance on the Edinburgh Fringe...
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=906   (311 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Crasher scores at Will's fete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Police arrested self-proclaimed comedy terrorist Aaron Barschak - who was wearing a long, dark wig, fake beard, sunglasses and a pink dress - after he slipped into Windsor Castle and yanked a microphone from the prince.
Aaron Barschak grabbed the mike at the "Out of Africa"-themed party Saturday night as William was thanking his father and grandmother for the party.
Barschak began shouting he was Osama Bin Laden and was nabbed by cops as soon as guests realized he wasn't part of the entertainment.
www.nydailynews.com /news/v-pfriendly/story/94790p-85960c.html   (315 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | And for your encore, Mr Bin Laden?
Aaron and Brendhan are aware that the critics may be hostile - "Oh, they'll have their knives out all right," says Aaron - and that Edinburgh is hugely important to his career.
Aaron is 37, the secular child of religious parents.
Kate said that Aaron's William infiltration might prove to be the spark that lights the flame of republicanism, like the suffragette Emily Davison jumping in front of the King's horse at the 1913 Derby.
www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,1004963,00.html   (3431 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - The Fringe benefits of gatecrashing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Despite his ridiculous appearance, Barschak managed to clamber over several walls at Windsor Castle and stagger past a number of members of the Royal protection squad by pretending to be a drunken guest.
Barschak plans to present the show wearing his now famous peach-coloured ball-gown and regale his audiences with the inside story of the stunt.
Barschak said he hadn’t decided whether he will be risking the fury of the serious comedy crowd by hijacking gigs and award ceremonies in Edinburgh.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=813192003   (864 words)

  
 Barschak heads for jail | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
Comedian Aaron Barschak has been jailed for 28 days after being found guilty of causing criminal damage at an art gallery in Oxford.
Barschak, from Golders Green, North London, claimed that he was creating a work of art by throwing the paint over Chapman at the Modern Art Gallery in Oxford, where the artist was hosting an exhibition with his brother Dinos.
Barschak, who calls himself 'the comedy terrorist', took his show Osama Like It Hot to the Edinburgh Festival during the summer following the Royal break-in.
www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/621_barschak_heads_for_j.htm   (168 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Aaron Barschak may have used a combination of guile and cheek to gatecrash Prince William's 21st birthday party, but it was clear yesterday he could not have done so without the unwitting co-operation of incompetent police.
Barschak had travelled to Windsor wearing casual clothes, thought to be a grey jacket and trousers.
Instead Barschak was allowed to leave the stage and only when he then attempted to get a bottle of champagne was he challenged by a member of the Palace staff.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/24/nhrh124.xml   (1435 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - News Archive - The court jester's tale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barschak tells me his ambition for his Edinburgh show is "just to entertain people".
As soon as we are on board the cameras start rolling and Barschak swoops on a striking aristocratic female at the adjoining table, engaging her in an intense conversation which takes in Middle Eastern politics, poetry and philosophy, interspersed with smouldering Rasputin stares.
Barschak decides to defuse the situation by confessing his lack of talent.
www.news.scotsman.com /archive.cfm?id=830802003   (1706 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Scotland - Barschak stonewalled at a hostile debut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
AARON Barschak, the "Comedy Terrorist", made his first appearance on the Edinburgh Fringe yesterday, when his show Osama Likes It Hot opened at the Smirnoff Underbelly.
As expected for a man whose previous comedy experience was limited to small venues and bar mitzvahs, Barschak struggled to maintain the attention of his audience with an hour of material.
Barschak said his first show was "rubbish", but vowed to continue for the rest of his Edinburgh run.
www.thescotsman.co.uk /scotland.cfm?id=827192003   (501 words)

  
 Just a nice Jewish boy, or a nutcase?
Aaron Barschak famously calls himself a "comedy terrorist", but I had not expected to find him funny.
But Barschak, 37, who lives in a flat in Golders Green insists that his actions had nothing to do with seeking publicity and everything to do with art.
Earlier I had watched as Barschak crossed the high road without checking for oncoming traffic, and I had pulled him back from a hurtling bus at the last moment.
mpelembe.mappibiz.com /archives_04/Aaron_Barshak.html   (1426 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - UK - Policeman showed comic into royal party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barschak’s revelation of how easy it was to breach Windsor Castle security at Prince William’s 21st birthday bash came as Home Secretary David Blunkett was due to make a statement on royal security to Parliament.
Barschak, of Golders Green, north-west London, is on bail to return to a London police station on a date next month pending further inquiries.
Barschak’s high-profile stunt earned the security services heavy criticism, but has earned him popular demand as calls flooded the box office of the Smirnoff Underbelly in the Cowgate, where he will perform his mock talk show Osama Like It Hot.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=691112003   (812 words)

  
 Edinburgh 2003: Osama Likes It Hot
Barschak's only been a comic for eight months, and not an especially hard-gigging one at that.
As a comedian Barschak is almost utterly incompetent; were he a real terrorist rather than a comedy one, we could all sleep a little sounder in our beds.
Aaron, and his sister who tried to stage manage the show - badly, are just two spoilt little rich kids, who went to daddy for money to pay for this, and from it they are trying to make more.
www.chortle.co.uk /edfest2003/osama.html   (776 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was Barschak - also known as the Comedy Terrorist - who gate-crashed Windsor Castle dressed as Osama bin Laden in drag, found his way to the stage where the Prince was addressing his guests, and hijacked the evening with a song and a congratulatory kiss for the birthday boy.
Aaron was born in London and named after his grandfather, who was a hotelier and kosher restaurateur in 1930s Vienna.
When Aaron's father Fred was seven years old he watched the torching of the synagogue opposite the Barschak hotel in Vienna, and was shortly after put on one of the trains to England known as kindertransport.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july13/fp4.asp   (1013 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - 'I kissed Prince William on the cheek'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In an interview with the Daily Mail, self-publicist Aaron Barschak denied reports that he was bundled off stage by security guards, saying he was only challenged when he went to the bar and demanded champagne.
But Barschak’s revelations that he shared a stage with Prince William for more than a minute and was even able to kiss the prince on both cheeks will make uncomfortable reading for those involved.
Barschak had already been moved on by police from the front of the castle, where he had been capering around in his pink dress, beard and turban.
www.thescotsman.co.uk /index.cfm?id=690302003   (987 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London
Royal gatecrasher Aaron Barschak triggered seven alarms inside Windsor Castle and not one was investigated, a report has found.
Barschak then climbs the second embankment and whilst in the foliage changes into his costume.
After a short discussion Barschak is taken by the contractor to an entrance to the party where he leaves him.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=403490   (929 words)

  
 edfringe.com : official site of the edinburgh festival fringe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barschak held a press conference at Fringe venue, the Smirnoff Underbelly, this afternoon to offer his response to the report by Commander Frank Armstrong of the City of London force, and also to praise the Fringe for helping him develop as a performer.
Barschak then stated that he wished to make no further comment on the recommendations made in the report.
Barschak was surprisingly open, claiming to have 'gotten carried away with all the publicity and resultantly came to Edinburgh without a show'.
www.edfringe.com /story.html?id=535   (394 words)

  
 SundayMirror.co.uk - GATECRASHER'S ROYAL STRIP PLAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
GATECRASHER Aaron Barschak planned to break into Buckingham Palace and strip off in front of the Queen, his former girlfriend has revealed.
Bozena met Ali G impersonator Barschak, 36, last year when he was making an appearance at a supermarket in Birmingham.
Another ex-girlfriend, Frenchwoman Helen Fernandez, 42, lived with Barschak for 11 months in La Paz, Bolivia, while he was on the hippy backtracking trail in 1990.
www.sundaymirror.co.uk /news/content_objectid=13123077_method=full_siteid=106694_headline=-GATECRASHER-S-ROYAL-STRIP-PLAN-name_page.html   (382 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden and Out of Africa
Aaron Barschak, 36, wore a false beard, a turban and a pink dress.
Barschak was not caught, arrested or taken away until he went to get some champagne after the incident.
Barschak scaled two or three walls, one by climbing a tree that had not been cut back, and had gained entry to the castle through a back entrance guarded by a dozy Scotland Yard royal protection officer.
www.theinternetforum.co.uk /william/africa1.html   (624 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Aaron Barschak: 'Comedy terrorist'
Aaron Barschak's unscheduled appearance at Windsor Castle was the latest in a series of stunts in which the 36-year-old stand-up comic has hijacked public events.
Barschak has apparently entered some events undetected by tucking his tunic underneath his shirt and trousers to avoid suspicion.
Barschak is a different type of comedian - some might call it a zany sense of humour.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3012206.stm   (1590 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Top Stories - Encore for Barschak in act that's so bad it's good   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Watching Barschak perform can be excruciating at times, but after three weeks of being marinated in the comedy maelstrom of Edinburgh in August, the inexperienced comic has begun to find his voice.
Barschak has treated his three-week run in Edinburgh as a "comedy workshop", and watched scores of other comics failing and succeeding at their craft.
Barschak plans to continue developing his act, to make it more structured and work on the material, but to keep the anarchic elements and interaction with the audience.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=905632003   (805 words)

  
 'Comedy Terrorist' is handsome, but doesn't bathe - and isn't funny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Aaron goes on to explain that apparently spies cannot be shot if they are wearing a military uniform.
Aaron was sent to a good school, The City of London School for Boys in Blackfriars, by his parents, Fred and Miriam.
When Aaron was 21, he and his sister, who were both Tintin fans, ("although we also read a lot of great literature") set off together for Peru.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/938552/posts   (2411 words)

  
 icWales - Gatecrasher in 'bin Laden' guise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In his own billings, Barschak claims to have also sabotaged a speech by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and confronted Terry Jones during a star-studded tribute show to Spike Milligan at the city's Guildhall last year.
His father, Fred Barschak, 72, said yesterday, "He is a zany character with a zany sense of humour.
Mr Barschak said his son manages to slip into high profile events dressed up as the Al Qaeda leader by tucking his tunic under his shirt and trousers to avoid suspicion.
icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13099129_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Gatecrasher-in-'bin-Laden'-guise-name_page.html   (463 words)

  
 CNN.com - Royal gatecrasher: Police blamed - Aug. 14, 2003
Police failed to respond when Aaron Barschak set off several alarms as he climbed a wall and entered Windsor Castle wearing a pink ball gown and fake Osama bin Ladan turban and beard, before joining the party on June 21.
"Barschak activated a number of alarms in geographical sequence and is recorded on CCTV inside the castle as he made his way from his point of entry to the location of the party.
Barschak, who calls himself a "comedy terrorist," said he kissed William on both cheeks before he was hauled out of the fancy dress party.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/08/14/royals.security/index.html   (448 words)

  
 Aaron on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The phrase “house of Aaron”; became a collective term for the priestly caste in Israel.
ATLANTA, GA - Hank Aaron during ceremonies at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, April 8, 2004.
ATLANTA, GA - Hank Aaron talks with the Braves' Chipper Jones before being introduced to the crowd at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, April 8, 2004.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/aaron.asp   (687 words)

  
 Evalu8 -
The intruder was identified by his father as Aaron Barschak, 36, a comic who has staged at least one other similar prank and who calls himself a "comedy terrorist."
Fred Barschak, 72, said his son was probably trying to publicize his act by gatecrashing the Windsor Castle party Saturday night.
Barschak — wearing a pink dress, turban, sunglasses and false beard — dancing outside the castle as guests dressed as characters out of Africa arrived.
www.evalu8.org /staticpage?page=review&siteid=2687   (866 words)

  
 CBC News:Comic's intrusion serious breach of Royal security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Barschak, wearing a pink dress and beard, was driven away from Windsor Castle in a police car, questioned and released on bail.
But Barschak was not on the list and had been told by security staff to leave after dancing around outside.
Barschak has a history of appearing uninvited at public events, including a live TV show and a speech by London' mayor.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/06/22/intruder_030622   (302 words)

  
 Mirror.co.uk - News - All News Archive - HE COULD HAVE WIPED OUT THE ROYAL FAMILY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But Barschak, 36, was able to "rant and rave nonsense" for nearly a minute before being bundled off.
Alone among the 300 guests, who included Camilla Parker Bowles, he knew Barschak was not part of the entertainment and that a security nightmare was unfolding.
Barschak sensationally reappeared as Wills's party was in full swing just before 11.30pm.
www.mirror.co.uk /news/allnews/content_objectid=13099259_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-HE-COULD-HAVE-WIPED-OUT-THE-ROYAL-FAMILY-name_page.html   (966 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Blunkett orders inquiry into royal party intruder
Aaron Barschak was seen outside Windsor Castle before the party.
Police declined to confirm reports that he was a stand-up comedian, Aaron Barschak.
Fred Barschak, 72, yesterday claimed to have recognised his son as the man was being led away by police after he incident, and stressed that he would not have intended to harm anyone and was probably trying to publicise his act.
politics.guardian.co.uk /homeaffairs/story/0,11026,983085,00.html   (663 words)

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