A company must rehire a moonlighting comic it fired for his ‘inflammatory’ standup routine.

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About a year ago, a media organization fired one of its reporters after it found his ‘inflammatory’ Instagram posts (NSFW) showing clips of his off-the-clock standup comedy routines.

Last week, an arbitrator, who found some of the reporter’s jokes ‘funny,’ ordered the company to rehire him.

Why? I’ll explain by taking it from the top.

According to this report from Philadelphia Magazine, “by all accounts, [the reporter] did an excellent job,” and had received a recent performance review “describing him as ‘Fully Successful’ in his role and giving him high marks all around.”

But things apparently changed when the

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