"It shocks you what lays buried." - Michael Richards
Michael Richards suffering a mind blowing meltdown onstage. From TMZ.com.
YouTube video of Richards aplogy on "The Late Show." -- Notice the people laughing at the beginning before Jerry Seinfeld asks for quiet. Actually, he had to tell the idiots that "This isn't funny." Even Letterman's audience has fucking morons in it? We weep.
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New York times ran an AP story today about Richards apology on Letterman. The story included a couple of reaction quotes from actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez and publicist Micheal Levine, author of "Guerilla PR" (Funny title):
''Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining,'' comedian Paul Rodriguez, who was at the Laugh Factory during Richards' performance, told CNN. ''Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations.''
Rodriguez has made a tremendous living playing the Hispanic this and the Hispanic that in addition to his standup. Fine. There are extremely limited roles for non-whites in Hollywood, certainly. But for a person of color to be the first to throw Richards under the fucking bus is a bit off putting. Why so holier than thou, Rodriguez? Your "Hispanics R Funny Too" tour, or whatever it was, played on racial stereotypes. There is no doubt about that.
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Is he my client? No? Then he's a fucking asshole." -- Michael Levine, post Richards tirade. Or something like that.
More from the AP article --
"Veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included comedians George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, called Richards' remarks inexcusable. Comics often face hecklers without losing their cool, he said.
'I've never seen anything like this in my life,' Levine said Monday. 'I think it's a career ruiner for him. ... It's going to be a long road back for him, if at all.'" -- Didn't Mel Gibson do something similar like two months ago? You don't remember that, Mr. PR hack?
More on Levine -- From IsrealInsider.com:
"'It's a nuclear disaster for him,' said publicist Michael Levine, who has represented Michael Jackson and Charlton Heston, among others. 'I don't see how he can restore himself.'" -- Michael Jackson? Enough said. And Mr. "...Mixed Ethnicity (in the US causing tens of thousands of gun related deaths)" (from Bowling For Columbine") Heston? Give us a break.
More holier than thou.
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For the hundreds of folks attempting to boycott Amazon.com for selling OJ and Judith Regen's sick joke of a book, we ask you: Do you even think about what you are doing? Boycott a bookseller for selling a book you disagree with? Would you have Amazon and Barnes and Noble ask you personally which books are acceptable to you and your church/ACLU group/Habitat for Humanity club? Give us a big goddamn break.
For the many thousands of eager Americans who actually signed up to read "If I Did It" on Amazon, we say, as with other topics discussed here on Apartment404's blog, that living your life must be punishment enough.
For the hundreds of thousands of hypocrites who wrote off Michael Richards after hearing about, then seeing, a man lose his mind for six minutes, we say, as he did during his rant, "It shocks you what lays buried."
Sometimes it ain't buried so very fucking deep.
And for Mr. Richards, who was clearly in tremendous pain during his Letterman appearance in trying to understand and vocalize his confusion at to how he could have said such offensive things, well, one screwup does not define a man's life. And we won't let it define how we view his work. Since Mr. Richards has only visited Apartment404 as "Kramer" during his 9 year run on "Seinfeld", as well as in the cute "Unstrung Heroes", we will continue to welcome him and laugh when he's funny. Which is often.
YouTube video of Richards aplogy on "The Late Show." -- Notice the people laughing at the beginning before Jerry Seinfeld asks for quiet. Actually, he had to tell the idiots that "This isn't funny." Even Letterman's audience has fucking morons in it? We weep.
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New York times ran an AP story today about Richards apology on Letterman. The story included a couple of reaction quotes from actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez and publicist Micheal Levine, author of "Guerilla PR" (Funny title):
''Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining,'' comedian Paul Rodriguez, who was at the Laugh Factory during Richards' performance, told CNN. ''Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations.''
Rodriguez has made a tremendous living playing the Hispanic this and the Hispanic that in addition to his standup. Fine. There are extremely limited roles for non-whites in Hollywood, certainly. But for a person of color to be the first to throw Richards under the fucking bus is a bit off putting. Why so holier than thou, Rodriguez? Your "Hispanics R Funny Too" tour, or whatever it was, played on racial stereotypes. There is no doubt about that.
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Is he my client? No? Then he's a fucking asshole." -- Michael Levine, post Richards tirade. Or something like that.
More from the AP article --
"Veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included comedians George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, called Richards' remarks inexcusable. Comics often face hecklers without losing their cool, he said.
'I've never seen anything like this in my life,' Levine said Monday. 'I think it's a career ruiner for him. ... It's going to be a long road back for him, if at all.'" -- Didn't Mel Gibson do something similar like two months ago? You don't remember that, Mr. PR hack?
More on Levine -- From IsrealInsider.com:
"'It's a nuclear disaster for him,' said publicist Michael Levine, who has represented Michael Jackson and Charlton Heston, among others. 'I don't see how he can restore himself.'" -- Michael Jackson? Enough said. And Mr. "...Mixed Ethnicity (in the US causing tens of thousands of gun related deaths)" (from Bowling For Columbine") Heston? Give us a break.
More holier than thou.
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For the hundreds of folks attempting to boycott Amazon.com for selling OJ and Judith Regen's sick joke of a book, we ask you: Do you even think about what you are doing? Boycott a bookseller for selling a book you disagree with? Would you have Amazon and Barnes and Noble ask you personally which books are acceptable to you and your church/ACLU group/Habitat for Humanity club? Give us a big goddamn break.
For the many thousands of eager Americans who actually signed up to read "If I Did It" on Amazon, we say, as with other topics discussed here on Apartment404's blog, that living your life must be punishment enough.
For the hundreds of thousands of hypocrites who wrote off Michael Richards after hearing about, then seeing, a man lose his mind for six minutes, we say, as he did during his rant, "It shocks you what lays buried."
Sometimes it ain't buried so very fucking deep.
And for Mr. Richards, who was clearly in tremendous pain during his Letterman appearance in trying to understand and vocalize his confusion at to how he could have said such offensive things, well, one screwup does not define a man's life. And we won't let it define how we view his work. Since Mr. Richards has only visited Apartment404 as "Kramer" during his 9 year run on "Seinfeld", as well as in the cute "Unstrung Heroes", we will continue to welcome him and laugh when he's funny. Which is often.
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