Michael Richards Tirade

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:28 pm

What's the big deal? He's just saying what we all feel.

(Link withheld intentionally.)

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:40 pm

What the fuck are you talking about, dick?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:16 pm

Lysander wrote:What the fuck are you talking about, dick?

Kramer was doing some stand-up and unleashed some n-bombs on the people who were heckling him. We don't get to hear the hecklers.

Man.

Racists or hecklers? Who to hate more?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:45 pm

What's racist about it? It's the only guaranteed way to stop a black guy from laughing at his own joke about you.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:17 pm

Um, the black guy called him a cracker ass first. He brought race into the mix to start. If he doesn't want to get called a n!33r don't call white people crackers.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:37 pm

Knuckles the CLown wrote:Um, the black guy called him a cracker ass first.

Great. This is cut out of the video I saw, would you please provide a link?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:38 pm

It is also a lie. "Cracker" doesn't even enter the conversation until people are already starting to walk out of the club in disgust.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:43 pm

pinback wrote:It is also a lie. "Cracker" doesn't even enter the conversation until people are already starting to walk out of the club in disgust.

I'll give it another listen -- hell, I was going to do that anyway -- but I don't remember "cracker" being on the subtitles until well after Kramer had race baited the audience. Perhaps one of the gang said it softly, too soft for our ears to hear but not the ears of a self-styled psychopathic circus felon whose ears are no doubt more sensitive to that sort of thing.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:00 pm

Regardless, I think we can all agree that that tape, as well as the entire apology tape from the Letterman show, is the greatest thing ever recorded.

Oh, I love it so much. So much. For so many reasons.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:07 pm

You all told me Fox news is a lie so I went to CNN and watched their presentation of it. Their subtitiles said cracker ass white guy before n!33r. Also there are 700 evening news people just appalled! The media has turned me into a racist.

co · Post by co » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:21 pm

Knuckles the CLown wrote:You all told me Fox news is a lie so I went to CNN and watched their presentation of it. Their subtitiles said cracker ass white guy before n!33r. Also there are 700 evening news people just appalled! The media has turned me into a racist.

well, yeah, it's pretty obvious cnn cut and spliced that video like crazy. Why don't you just watch the whole thing on youtube before typing something stupid?

co · Post by co » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:33 pm

He did look pretty pathetic when he was apologizing so we ought to let him off the hook and go back to forgetting about him.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:46 pm

I went to CNN.com to see the version of the tirade that Knuckles saw.

Those pieces of shit wanted me to watch the unanimated "TALK TO CHUCK" commercial where the snotty, middle-aged bitch complains because she has too many investments.

No fucking way am I sitting through an ad to watch video on CNN. I wouldn't do it if there were no such thing as Youtube. What a desperate bunch of assholes, CNN. The popup blocker on my shitty browser also went off - this desperation of economy was worse than anything Cosmo Kramer ever did.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post 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.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:04 pm

This is a different age. It reminds me a little of Andy Kaufman. Nobody took him seriously even though he was trying to make a valid point. What that point was we are not sure of, but he was trying to be serious and nobody was having it. Everyone seems to be waiting for him(Richards) to say something goofy. I guess having Seinfeld there only makes the goofiness factor increase.
I'm wondering when Richards will get beaten up.
When he's walking to his car?
Goes out to dinner?
Gets pulled over?
If he does get assaulted, everyone will say, "Serves him right!"
Maybe nothing will happen and all this will go away. He hasn't broken any enforceable laws, no movie of the week out of him.

THE
FORK IN HIS
AARDVARK?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:09 pm

I feel as if he called that guy a n!33r to die for my sins. In three days he will rise from the dead and go on to become the best comedian ever. He's my messiah.

Pinblack · Post by **Pinblack** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:05 pm

pinback wrote:Regardless, I think we can all agree that that tape, as well as the entire apology tape from the Letterman show, is the greatest thing ever recorded.

Oh, I love it so much. So much. For so many reasons.

Name one.

co · Post by co » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:11 am

Pinblack wrote:
pinback wrote:Regardless, I think we can all agree that that tape, as well as the entire apology tape from the Letterman show, is the greatest thing ever recorded.

Oh, I love it so much. So much. For so many reasons.
Name one.

It's great to see the fear in richards' face that he'll never work again. Or that Jerry will be mad at him for hurting his[/h] dvd sales.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:31 am

I think it's awesome because of the white people spilling out of the laugh factory. "My god, we certainly did not come here for this, we came here for laughs." Even if he can't do what he tried to do, even if he is horrible, and obtuse. I love him for the attempt.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:26 pm

co wrote:
Knuckles the CLown wrote:You all told me Fox news is a lie so I went to CNN and watched their presentation of it. Their subtitiles said cracker ass white guy before n!33r. Also there are 700 evening news people just appalled! The media has turned me into a racist.
well, yeah, it's pretty obvious cnn cut and spliced that video like crazy. Why don't you just watch the whole thing on youtube before typing something stupid?

Because I don't go on fucking youtube you stupid maggot