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."
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Well, it's not like he needs to work anymore.
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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.
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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.
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Besides, honestly...who's even going to remember this in a week or two?
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Da_bang80
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Well, they're still talking about Mr. Gibson...
I saw that on CNN, wasn't impressed.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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"?
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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
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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.
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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.
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