Inner Circle (parody group)

The Inner Circle is an American musical parody group made up of seasoned reporters, bloggers, web journalists, and television and radio personalities from the New York City metro area.

Dorothy Schiff, owner and publisher of the New York Post, refused to attend in protest, and Mayor Lindsay's wife Mary would flick peanuts from her balcony table at the men seated below.

The first women to be admitted to the Inner Circle were Edith Evans Asbury of The New York Times, Marcia Chambers of the Associated Press, Jean Crafton of the Daily News, and Maureen O'Neill of Newsday.

Several fights broke out between people in the audience and the activists: as the judge would comment in a resulting trial, testimony varied and left the origin of the scuffle unclear.

Mickey Maye, the leader of the firefighter's union at the time and a former Golden Gloves boxer, was arrested and charged with harassment:[4] he was later acquitted.

This changed in 1966, when Mayor John Lindsay instead performed a song-and-dance routine with actress Florence Henderson,[17] setting a precedent which continues into the present day.