Posted on 11/20/2006 7:03:27 AM PST by torchthemummy
Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I doubt he does it for the money. Then again, he probably doesn't do it for the admiration of the crowds.
funny, I just watched it.....
"2 black guys in the front row that were heckling him. They didn't get that part on tape, now did they? Interesting."
Because there was nothing worth videoing until Richards started spewing.
It wasn't anger, it was a seizure.
Elaine: Hey, hey, wait a minute! Let me ask you something. Kramer, the last time you hit your head, was Mary Hart on TV?
Kramer: Yeah.
Elaine: That is it!
Kramer: What?
Elaine: That is it! Mary Hart's voice, don't you see? There's something about Mary Hart's voice that's giving you seizures. Just like, just like, just like that woman in Albany!
The proper way for a heckler to dispose of a comedian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14rgFmWKT_0
Cracker is a term that identifies a region of the South, along the coast, from the Carolinas through Georgia to Florida.
When I grew up, being a Georgia Cracker was a good thing.
The term comes from the fact that all we had to live on was hardtack bread, otherwise known as a cracker.
In recent times Yankees have tried to turn the term into a negative racial stereotype.
First Mel Gibson, now Kramer. Who will be next?? The Hollyweirdos are showing their true colors!
You must listen to the tape.
One man in the audience was telling Michaels he had no talent, that he didn't get a movie or a TV show after Steinfeld because he's no good. The guy was VERY loud and there is no way that Michaels could have ignored it. I take it from Michaels' rant, that what started it was when a black man/men in the audience were talking loudly during his act. That is what started Michaels on a racist rant about blacks.
Holy CRAP!
There's no defending that. Simply unacceptable.
Acting is such a high paying job for people who like to pretend to be something they are not. I love George Clooney for bashing the USA and the military and has made two movies where the puke is in the military. Go figure. He wears the uniform pretending, but is a coward when he could wear it for real. All of Hollyweird are cowards in my opinion, as are all dimocrats.
Click on the "TMZ" link at the very top of the page, not the URL in the middle of the thread and you'll get the video footage.
~ Blue Jays ~
can't watch this because that site require ActiveX ... maybe someone will post it to youtube or somewhere.
From WiKi:
In November 2006, during a stand up routine at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, Richards was heckled by audience members, prompting him to unleash a tirade of expletives and racially insensitive remarks. He later told CNN, off-camera, that he was sorry for what happened and that he had made amends. 24 hours later, he was back performing on the same stage.
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/showbiz/2006/11/19/b.anderson.nword.cnn
Wow. Not good. Might have been "on something" or intoxicated to say something like that. Definitely went downhill. This day and age, you cannot get away with anything with all the cell phones, cameras etc. that are around.
So because the people who heckling him happened to be black, that allows him to go on a racial rant? Were they heckling him about his race? Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.
That's part of being a comic. If you can't take the heat of heckling, get out of the business.
Or you could go to the heckler's office and heckle them while they work at their job.
While I will defer to your analysis of the history of the term "cracker" the fact still remains that this term has become an allowed pejoritive in the black community. I seriously doubt that the black guy that said it has any idea what the origins of the word are. He simply knows it to be the low-level equivalent of the n-word to be used to refer to a white person and used it as such.
Bump for later :(
Agreed. It certainly wasn't a comedy act.
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