These comics are real schtick-lers.
Stand-up comedian Bernadette Pauley is suing a fellow comic-turned-late-late-late-night-TV-host, saying he reneged on paying residuals to her and “several hundred” other comedians.
“Comics Unleashed” host Byron Allen and his production firm fleeced the performers in New York and Los Angeles out of more than $1 million, Pauley says in a class-action lawsuit filed Dec. 24 in LA.
“We may be clowns, but we’re not stupid,” Pauley told The Post. “We just want what’s due.”
The sassy comic’s suit says Allen, 51, agreed in a contract to pay her “residuals” for reruns in 2006. But she and other comics claim that they haven’t seen a penny of that.
“He gave us the cold shoulder and the runaround,” said Pauley.
Neither Allen nor his production company, CF Entertainment, returned calls for comment.