by Ice Cream Jonsey » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:03 pm
Holy shit, the Letterman apology is hilarious.
"Stop laughing, it's not funny." -- Jerry Seinfeld
Haha, why is Seinfeld even out there? What the hell is that? Who booked them both?
00:47. Letterman doesn't ask a follow-up question and Richards is sitting there waiting. Everyone laughs. Everyone should laugh! For at least the following reasons:
1) We have, as a culture (especially the section of the culture likely to be at a fucking Letterman taping) been conditioned to laugh every time this guy is on TV. To the people who don't watch tv or hated "Seinfeld": great, not you. Everyone else, though.
2) He hasn't been on TV since that show ended, so we're all looking at him thinking this is another wacky Kramer moment whether we want to or not.
01:03 OK, Jerry was going to say the same thing I just came up with. We are used to Richards being funny. I'm sorry, but nobody can take this guy seriously.
"I'm really busted up over this." Hahahahah!
01:39: "Not just me but... uh... uh..." I think he wants to say "White Comedians everywhere."
Katrina? Did he just blame Katrina? It's the new 9/11!
2:20: "The force-field of this hostility." Wow. WOW.
3:13: He is speaking of The Rage as if it were a paying audience member. Excellent.
3:25: "I am not a racist!" Look, I don't judge people... I think that's one of the many reasons I get along with everyone who posts here... but if you uncork what he did, even if you're just trying to push the envelope, you're kind of a racist. At least a little one.
4:00: "I tried to jujitsu that." Aces.
What can you say. I don't know what I would do in that situation, so I am not giving him a hard time on this backwater BBS. It's just that there are certain people who don't do "sincere" well. It hits a little close to home. I don't mean along the lines of, "When I am out race baiting I find it very difficult to later -- " but as human beings we all screw up. Society expects certain ... I don't know, facial expressions or a tone or something when people go to apologize and there are people out there who can't mimic that perfectly. What they say is no less honest, it just looks fake.
That being said, the Letterman of 20 years ago would have had planted black audience members so they could heckle him during his teleconferenced apology.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dufHYw-W6j4
Holy shit, the Letterman apology is hilarious.
"Stop laughing, it's not funny." -- Jerry Seinfeld
Haha, why is Seinfeld even out there? What the hell is that? Who booked them both?
00:47. Letterman doesn't ask a follow-up question and Richards is sitting there waiting. Everyone laughs. Everyone should laugh! For at least the following reasons:
1) We have, as a culture (especially the section of the culture likely to be at a fucking Letterman taping) been conditioned to laugh every time this guy is on TV. To the people who don't watch tv or hated "Seinfeld": great, not you. Everyone else, though.
2) He hasn't [i]been[/i] on TV since that show ended, so we're all looking at him thinking this is another wacky Kramer moment whether we want to or not.
01:03 OK, Jerry was going to say the same thing I just came up with. We are used to Richards being funny. I'm sorry, but nobody can take this guy seriously.
"I'm really busted up over this." Hahahahah!
01:39: "Not just me but... uh... uh..." I think he wants to say "White Comedians everywhere."
Katrina? Did he just blame Katrina? It's the new 9/11!
2:20: "The force-field of this hostility." Wow. WOW.
3:13: He is speaking of The Rage as if it were a paying audience member. Excellent.
3:25: "I am not a racist!" Look, I don't judge people... I think that's one of the many reasons I get along with everyone who posts here... but if you uncork what he did, even if you're just trying to push the envelope, you're kind of a racist. At least a little one.
4:00: "I tried to jujitsu that." Aces.
What can you say. I don't know what I would do in that situation, so I am not giving him a hard time on this backwater BBS. It's just that there are certain people who don't do "sincere" well. It hits a little close to home. I don't mean along the lines of, "When I am out race baiting I find it very difficult to later -- " but as human beings we all screw up. Society expects certain ... I don't know, facial expressions or a tone or something when people go to apologize and there are people out there who can't mimic that perfectly. What they say is no less honest, it just looks fake.
That being said, the Letterman of 20 years ago would have had planted black audience members so they could heckle him during his teleconferenced apology.