I do love a well-crafted headline… today’s winner is “This racism is making me thirsty.“, Ms Fits’ post on Michael Richards’ racist outburst from stage during his stand-up routine. I *still* haven’t been able to watch this on video. The link to AOL Video that Ms Fits has doesn’t work for me – you guys able to see this? Or find it on YouTube?
best blog headline of the day
by cameron | Nov 21, 2006 | Uncategorized | 11 comments
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7uKvpzVXI
Nice meltdown. Back in my misspent youth, I watched a few comics – usually people who were coasting on their reputations and thought the crowd would forgive them anything- just lose it. The best was a guy in Toronto who threatened to stick a fork in a heckler’s ear and pull his brains out and eat them in front of his girlfriend. but this is one for the record books.
“Just Kidding” isn’t much of a defense unless you’re funny at the same time. Maybe Michael Richards can join Screech from “Saved By the Bell” in making porno videos….. or not.
I wouldn’t say that he was just kidding but I don’t think he meant what he said.
It looks just like when teenage girls scream at their mothers that they hate them and wish they’d die. It was just an unfortunate tanty that got caught on tape.
Wow good find Mim. I think he was trying to be funny, to use “bad words” to show the audience how much we react to them, but it go way outta hand. That clip is never going to die.
Okay team, PR question – if you were MR’s manager, how would you recover from this? Go on Leno and do a mea culpa Hugh Grant-style?
I spend far too much time on youtube 🙂
I’d probably get him to make a public apology and then keep a low profile until some other celebrity makes a fool of themselves. Hollywood has a very short attention-span.
How about go on Letterman and do a segment with Jerry Seinfeld?
Total and utter brain fade.
Well, there’s one angle- “out of context”. Though how that will fly with the youtube video out I can’t say.
Perhaps the old Anthony Morgan line “sometimes in comedy you say something and it’s really funny, other times, you say something and it’s just a sentence”. In this case, an offensive sentence.
…and leave it at that
thomasr
PS you gonna blog about the wonderful games explo? No me neither.
tom i mentioned it on today’s show.
Michael RIchards apologizes live on Letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJWPuzpZy0
When you screw up that bad and that publicly, words are not enough to prove you’re really sorry, or that you didn’t mean it. The public has zero trust in you.
Whether he lost it or not, words like that don’t come from nowhere.
After 5 years community service in various ethnic communities, then I *might* believe him. But even so, he could just be trying to cover up being an asshole and getting busted.
That one’s a career killer.
Hmmm… I have to point out the obvious Bill Hicks reference. Bill’s reaction’s to hecklers was interesting…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Il-sA_NYA
and much more hostile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ1fXTx0-uk
(language warning)
Maybe that’s what he was going for…
I’m not sure about letterman being the right place to apologise though. It’d be very hard to be sincere on Letterman