Comedian Stephen Fry has mentioned he is "prepared to go to prison" over the "Twitter joke" trial.
Fry was looming at a gain gig for Paul Chambers who is attractive to the High Court against his self-assurance for sending a ominous communication.
He had tweeted: "Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... instead I'm floating the airfield sky high!"
Fry argued that Chambers' twitter was an e.g. of Britain's convention of self-deprecating humour and banter.
Chambers' box has turn a result in celebre on Twitter, with hundreds of people reposting his initial explanation in objection at the conviction.
"This [verdict] contingency not be authorised to mount in law," Fry said, adding that he would go on to repeat Chambers' summary and face jail "if that's what it takes".
Among the other celebrities lending their encouragement to the fundraising dusk were Al Murray, Rufus Hound, Katy Brand and Father Ted bard Graham Linehan.
Linehan told the audience: "We've got this astounding apparatus and you should free-for-all any endeavor to take it out of the hands."
The gain gig, at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, directed to elevate supports for Chambers' appeal.
The target of the organisers is that he will not be forced to tumble his box since the probability he would have to pay the prosecution's legal expenses were he to lose.
Few of the stars were ready to allocate expertise to Chambers' initial tweet, however.
Sitting inconspicuously in the stalls, he was variously described as a knucklehead, a nerd and a "donut".
Murray even branded the gig the "Save Paul Chambers from his own dim-witted future event".
But everybody seemed joined by a request to safeguard liberty of debate or at least the aptitude to recognize the disparity between jokes and ominous militant threats.
Chambers' lawyer, David Allen Green, moreover addressed the audience, lecture them on the key sum of his case.
Although he was clever not to criticize the courts, he mentioned the preference to find his customer guilty "does not make me unapproachable to be an executive of the court".
"We should be able to have banter," he concluded. "We should be able to verbalise openly without the hazard of legal coercion."
Chambers, of Balby, Doncaster, sent the summary to his 600 supporters in the early hours of 6 January 2010 - he claimed it was in a short time of disappointment after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow.
He was found guilty in May 2010 and fined 385 and told to pay 600 costs.
His allure is expected to go before the High Court after that this year.
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