The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass."
Richards continued, "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger!"
The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger." Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
That's my Kramer! Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, it's not like he needs to work anymore.
Posted by Mikey T (Member # 144) on :
quote: Well, it's not like he needs to work anymore.
And yet Jason, Michael, and Julia still went to work after the series. Julia seems to be more successful out of the three of them though.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Er...the guy makes more in royalties each week than we see in a year of 9-5 slavin' to the man.
He'll do just fine.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Besides, honestly...who's even going to remember this in a week or two?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Well, they're still talking about Mr. Gibson...
I saw that on CNN, wasn't impressed.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
First of all I'm a white dude, so probably I shouldn't be talking. But for whatever reason I feel compelled to quell knee-jerk Kramer-hating. I suspect the point Mr. Richards's was (entirely ineptly) attempting to demonstrate was the ridiculousness of such an offensive period in American history. IE the idea of expelling a man because he is African-American seems a silly and stupid thing now. I doubt seriously that he is half as racist as his language might have implied in the clip. What he said was grossly offensive, no question. Where he greviously miscalculated was in how funny this shocking retort might have been. Because it isn't.
[ November 21, 2006, 09:10 AM: Message edited by: bX ]
Posted by Zipacna (Member # 1881) on :
He lost his temper, and said some damn disgusting things. One things this really shows is, he can't for the life of him deal with hecklers. Any half-decent comedian shouldn't have to sink to those depths to respond to them.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
George Lopez said it best, that Richards is an actor trying to be a comedian. He's had no stand-up experience at all & when the audience got disruptive, he had no stones to handle it right
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Mightiest Mim of Mims:
quote:Besides, honestly...who's even going to remember this in a week or two?
I still remember Elvis Costello's referring to Ray Charles as a "blind, ignorant nigger". He may have been drunk and may or may not have meant it, considering the context of the conversation, but regardless it was an unforgivable lack of judgement, and that's all that matters in showtown.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
The double standard I don't get is how a "person of caucasian decent" says the "The Word" and it becomes a national uproar and yet THIS isn't considered offensive by the same ethnic groups that would just as soon kill a "Honky" that used the word. It is a racist thing to say that someone of African decent can call another individual of African decent "N" all the time yet someone of another ethnic background cannot use the same word.
Does this mean that only whites can call whites "Redneck". Isn't the "N" word a permutation of the spanish word "Negro" which means "Black"?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: George Lopez said it best, that Richards is an actor trying to be a comedian. He's had no stand-up experience at all & when the audience got disruptive, he had no stones to handle it right
Because George Lopez is that much better of a comedian
(This spell check on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is pissing me off.)
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I didn't say that he was better or wors.e Stop trying to read what you think into what I say. I said the man made a point. Lopez--regardless of whether or not you find him funny (I've never seen his act)--paid his dues as a stand-up. Richards did not. Fact, not opinion.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I'm sorry. I've just had a bad day today, not your fault. Though is true what Lopez says, I've never seen a stand up comedy act with Richards before.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Well, this appears to be getting all manner of publicity. There were two segments on ET about it tonight. When I flipped past it at the beginning of the hour they were talking about it and when I flipped back at the end of the hour, there it was again.
They're talking about it on talk shows, saying his career is over. Though, as has been pointed out, it pretty much was anyway. Not like he ever needs to work again.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
There was another segment on CNN today. I didn't catch much because I was in the middle of the book "Patriot Games". Something about the African American community not accepting his apology or something. Oh well, I wouldn't have accepted it either...
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
That Letterman piece was torture to watch. Excruciating, he looked like a deer staring into headlights.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
What I find disturbing is that there's still so much racism towards African Americans in this day and age. We should've done away with that kind of prejedice years ago.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
We should have, yet prejudice is somewhat a part of human nature so it will never truly be erased.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
That is oh so true. And probably one of the reasons the human race is doomed.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
No. Just one culture.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Yes, yes we know.
Edit: I think that one culture business is also human nature.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Merry New Year! Man has he gotten it down to a tee�
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Heheh, funny!
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I like the fact that they even put in a girl to voice her dislike close to the camera at the same time as in the original. She's like a minicelebrity now. Also, the way santa pronounces the m-word.
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