It was the alcohol talking. Whether it was malt liquor or not I don’t know.
Can’t wait for the E True Hollywood story.
How great would it be if the next Surreal Life involved Richards, Rush Limbaugh, and Mel Gibson.
I say an addiction to Kenny Rogers’ chicken.
We should start a pool.
Alcohol: 2 to 1
Painkillers: 3 to 1
Raped as child: 4 to 1
Raped by Newman: 25 to 1
Raped by an alcoholic, on painkillers Newman as a child: 2000 to 1
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As we all know, “addiction to painkillers” is code for $200-a-day coke habit.
I guess somebody will have to kick open a bathroom door an take a polaroid snapshot to get to the bottom of this. (there is a Seinfeld episode reference for every possible joke on this topic)
Has anyone seen his act before? I can’t imagine it’d be very extreme.
I really think he just lost it here- even though he is a racist douchbag. It’s hard for a comedian when they’re bombing on stage, or having people talk over them. I’ll always remember that glorious time when Jim Norton was bombing horribly at the Comedy Cellar (as he often did before he got famous) and yelled at a bunch of interupting women- calling them whores and saying he hoped they died in a house fire.
I would have thought Richards’ excuse was pretty airtight…
Listen closely at the start of the tape and a voice clearly belonging to Entertainment Tonight hostess Mary Hart tells Richards “you suck.” This seems to trigger some sort of involuntary reaction which causes the comic to go beserk at some innocuous heckling from a couple of the club’s black patrons.
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| Originally Posted by swedish miyagi How great would it be if the next Surreal Life involved Richards, Rush Limbaugh, and Mel Gibson. |
And the rest of the house? Liberal, black Jews.
Maybe he did it to honor Bette Midler.
Okay, I’m done now. Probably not.
This thread is the new Wesley Snipes tax evasion.
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| Originally Posted by 70sCinema And the rest of the house? Liberal, black Jews. |
All they have to do is dig up Sammy Davis Jr. Liberal, black, Jews with Parkinson’s! Sammy used to shake his head around a little bit, close enough. I’d also like to throw in Corey’s Haim and Feldman, they’re like the salt and pepper to a great surreal life meal.
As if burning the Puerto Rican flag wasn’t bad enough…
I’ll shamelessly jump into this:
Maybe the pretzels were making him thirsty?
At least he didn’t say that all the black people looked like Sugar Ray Leonard. Oh wait, nevermind.
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| Originally Posted by Devincf A) I don’t think it was racist - he was trying to be the most offensive that he could be. B) Even if it was racist, so what? He’s a fucking comedian, not the president. I don’t give a shit that Gibson hates Jews, either. |
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| Originally Posted by Slater Thanks for taking time to let everyone know that you don’t care. |
Much funnier than Michael Richards’ rant.
Kramer apologizes on tonight’s Letterman.
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| I’m told arrangements were made by none other than Jerry Seinfeld himself for Michael Richards to go on Letterman by remote satellite feed tonight. “Kramer” made a major apology on Dave’s Late Show which had Seinfeld scheduled as a guest already. Richard’s appearance during Seinfeld’s interview was treated as a surprise. Kramer “apologized and expressed remorse at his own behavior. He seemed genuinely upset and embarrassed,” said a source at the taping. |
Okay, so that’s where the plug for the season 7 DVD set will be heard.
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| Originally Posted by jonvoight’s car As we all know, “addiction to painkillers” is code for $200-a-day coke habit. |
Hey, you kill the pain your way, I’ll kill it my way.
Well that’s disheartening. It’s never any fun to find actors you consider cool are actually flawed in uncool ways. It shouldn’t be surprising … but it always is.
He should have just hollered some sort of generic insults instead like other comedians do all the time. You can get your point across to hecklers in any number of ways that don’t involve racial slurs.