Bob's Burgers actor Jay Johnston gets year in prison for US Capitol riots

Comedian Jay Johnston has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for his involvement in the 6 January Capitol riot.

He had pleaded guilty in July to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement officers who were trying to stop a mob of Trump supporters from storming the US Capitol.

Johnston, 56, has acting credits in Hollywood going back to the mid-1990s and was fired from his role on animated series Bob's Burgers in December 2021after being identified as a possible rioter.

Prosecutors had sought a longer prison sentence for Johnston, whose lawyers argued back that the US has "persistently overstated" the actor's role in the attack.