This racism is making me thirsty.
Oh dear.
To quote:
'Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.
Richards, who played the wacky Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show "Seinfeld," appeared onstage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.
The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass."
Richards continued, "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger!"
The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger."
One of the men who was the object of Richard's tirade was outraged, shouting back "That's un-f***ing called for, ain't necessary."
After the three-minute tirade, it appears the majority of the audience members got up and left in disgust.
Attempts to reach Richards' reps were unsuccessful.'
Yeah, I bet they were.
So what does this mean now for all those home-fried dorks who have that crooked-smile tilty hair picture of Kramer* framed above their bed? Do they even give two-thirds of a monkey's knuckle? Do you?
354 days til the next election.
*nb. if you ever give this to me for Christmas I will be forced to kill you.
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Oh God, I got given that exact picture for my fifteenth birthday.
I thought it was charmingly absurd at the time. Now it turns out I was supporting hate mongering racism. Innocence lost.
I haven't been able to check out the video yet, as it seems half the planet is trying to download it.
I wondered what it was I didn't trust about you tex, YOU RACIST FIEND.
When Kramer was cooking his shirts in the pizza oven he said "That's a big oven!" I think that's when all this started. Loving this internet immediacy however...we can look forward to much more of this type of fun video stuff in the future and it is great.
My Kramer T shirt said
'He is a loathsome, offensive brute and yet I can't look away.'
I think perhaps now I will be looking away permanently.
tis available on other sites
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3159127191960661978&q=kramer+racist&hl=en
It is pretty intense,
Thanks anon, that was amazing, these actors have a hugely distorted view of their importance in the world. By the way love the blog's title Ms Fits
Thank you, Donkey. I live to give.
so maybe he really does keep cubans in his drawers?
Wow, I wouldn't have expected that from Michael Richards at all. I guess with such a strong character like Kramer, you do associate the real person with their character, even though they might be nothing like that in real life.
To be fair, he probably did the silly walk when leaving the stage. You just couldn't see it past all the furious audience members standing up and storming out.
i give a whole monkey's knuckle, actually.
[puts richards on list with gibson]
cockspank, end of.
non sequitur moment: i was wrong about n. juster, btw fits – he was a seppo architect. sorry/oops. text the editors, stat...
anon?
ah, you knew who it was – contextual intercourse and all.
as you were.
So... am I the only person who found Seinfeld itself to be repugnant, classist and fairly racist in itself and is therefore utterly unsurprised?
Dr Nic - I just found Senfield tedious and unfunny, and so never watched more than a few episodes of it. *shrug*
dr nic, calling seinfeld [the show] repugnant, classist and racist is like saying the same thing about the office. it's satire.
But isn't Michael Richards a Jew? And doesn't the Jew use the Nigger to help it dominate the world? Somehow. I'm confused. It must be a trick.
ok, now i've watched it. it's really bad. and there are even people still laughing a minute into it, thinking he's being funny. it's part of the act, har-di-har.
seinfeld was a great show, and michael richards is a racist prick. two completely different things.
Hey Marieke,
How's it going? I've just found your blog, it's great. Read your piece in the Green Guide a while ago and saw you on First Tuesday not long ago, good to see you active. Absolutely shattered that they cancelled LMS for today, I love the show. Is there any way I can buy a box set? I missed it on the first run, but being buried in a Creative Arts course studying story beats, rythym and characterisation will do that. I'm moving onto Pro Screenwriting next year at RMIT and was wondering if you were still interested in developing televisual narrative?
(PS Pardon my boring blog, there's no time to stop in 'Coaters)
dr nic, calling seinfeld [the show] repugnant, classist and racist is like saying the same thing about the office. it's satire.
Not really – one's clever, funny and, if not subtle, at least thoughful; the other was a tawdry sitcom based on catchphrase comedy that became inexplicably popular with otherwise intelligent people.
dr nic, calling seinfeld [the show] repugnant, classist and racist is like saying the same thing about the office. it's satire.
Not really – one's clever, funny and, if not subtle, at least thoughful; the other was a tawdry sitcom based on catchphrase comedy that became inexplicably popular with otherwise intelligent people.
Richard's was on a guest spot on The Cage (Tripple M) one time. At the end of the year Tim Smith was leaving and they did a retrospective. When asked "Worst guest ever" the response from all the Cage members was Richards.
Apparently he is an unfunny snob that resents being linked to Kramer and feels he's too good to discuss anything related to the show.
He was out here to promote Seinfeld coming out on DVD.
I've heard interviews with other cast and they were fantastic, the Richards interview was like a car crash in slow motion.
Nice to know I was not the only one who found Seinfeld unfunny.
Just picking up on donkey's earlier throwaway...
Is anyone else becoming confused by the semantic fluidity of the word "blog". The noun meaning a web log, well, I'm down with that. And the verb "to blog" (eg, "I blogged that dance class HARD, y'all"), I'm right with that too.
But the use of "blog" as a noun for what I have previously called a "blog post" is confusing me. Can we go back to "blog" = web log, and "post" = the written components of said web log? Because calling posts "blogs" (as most commenters on the Smage blogs do) is kind of like calling an article in a magazine a "magazine". And that would be confusing.
Yours,
Peter
Oh, and Dr Nic, you say "catchphrase comedy" in reference to Seinfeld, but apart from maybe Elaine's sporadic "get out!" and the even more sporadic "Hello, Neuman", I can't think of any. Not any that happened frequently enough to for the show to be based around them, anyway.
It's certainly not Full House ("Cut. It. Out." "Don't touch the Hair!" "How rude." "Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!" "You got it dude!")
Now *that* was some catchphrase comedy.
Hi fits,
Enjoyed your article in last week's green guide.
Just wanted you to see what happens if you attempt to log in to your blog while drunk.
I inadvertently typed: http://reasonsyouwillhateme.blogpsot.com/
- and imagine my surprise. I hadn't popped in for a while and thought 'Mein Gott - das frau!! Nein Nein Nein'.
Hope you're well
Cheers LSD
Yeah I agree with Peter.
I could add Kramer's entrance, but really that was just his general goofiness.
The catchphrases weren't part of the show, they entered the lexicon because of the show's popularity, not repetitive overuse.
- soup nazi was one episode, so was yada yada yada etc
The whole show was about a group of selfish upper west side new yorkers who had no loyalty to anyone else, and barely any to themselves. In that regard it was satire. It was satirising selfish the selfish in all of us - and incidentally was based around Seinfeld's actual life and friends.
It was no "whachutalkin'boutwillis"
end tangential rant (not blog, or post)
I have the loathsome offensive brute on my wall.
You can be racist and funny at the same time except Richards was not.
I still like him though. Fork or no fork.
I did not know that a framed Kramer on my wall constituted me being a home fried dork.
I also have Betty Page. Does she define me too?
No, Chuck A. Your denim defines you. AND ONLY YOUR DENIM.
Thanks. I do look great in my stonewash jeans and leather waistcoat.
*Interesting fact about Chuck. He has no arse and finds it hard to find jeans that don't make him look like he is wearing a nappy or has soiled himself. He once borrowed his sisters jeans which were a perfect fit.
*He also always refers to himself in the third person when talking about his arse.
Frankly I still haven't got over no entry for Monday Ms Fits!Its simply not good enough, this is my only vice! Okay a comment about Richards/Kramer! He f***ed up, he may or may not be a racist but his behaviour and attitude are disappointing! but we live in a Tribal Default World and when triggered or threatened we go on the attack! it's basically to be expected.We are all Racist in my experience, just consider Blues Eyes-Black Eyes on SBS a few years ago! A Label is a Label, nigger is no different then racist, except to those who like to throw the first stone!enjoy drama and see themselves as better then others!
Right now he is probably dying of shame and self destructing! Get over it!deal with it! but don't feed the machine! Hating him is no different then hating blacks!
Blacks! That's worse than using the word nigger.
A clash of egoes in an LA nightclub is a fucking cakewalk in comparison to the rest of the world's race woes. Still, it took our minds off that awful middle east for a day..
Well, I think you're just an anon! So typical!
That was supposed to be just after Anonymous. Otherwise it makes me look like even more of an idiot.
anonymous above, i'm going to call you a grammar-muncher. and i feel threatened by your inability to use "than" properly.
it's only natural that i THEN start in on you.
If anyone saw one of those rakishly tilted portraits of Kramer on a t-shirt at QV Markets and was seriously tempted to buy one (alongside a Stone Cold Steve Austin one) and they WEREN'T an under-cutted twenty-something still voraciously holding onto their Sweathog hoodies and British Knights, surely would have been sitting next to the woman in the audience that (if you shove your ear-hole up to the speaker you can make it out) shouts out "Don't go Kramer!" or some such twaddle (note: uses the name Kramer.. as if she thinks she perches on the actual IKEA couch in Jerry's apartment and not in what must be a Plan B venue watching a Plan D comedian).
Shame on you Michael Richards. Shame on your embarrassingly obvious crack-snorting mania (crack: arse and crack crack). And Shame on your inability to ever be any other 'character'. Ever. May that be your hell you strange, gangly goon.
p.s Ms Fits, a friend 'put me onto you' and I have developed a Lady-Crush. Hoping you're not minding.
This totally freaked me out and upset me and I decided never to watch Seinfeld ever again.
Then I saw this and felt a teeny bit sorry for the guy:
http://www.devilducky.com/media/54087/
But it's still fucked...at least he total admits it.
"totally"...oops.
Fuck. Does this mean I can never again enjoy the cultural commentary and subtle farce that is the "Weird" Al Yankovic classic The Vidiot from UHF?
Damn. The timeless scene where the forces of evil are sneaking past a supply closet, only to have it burst open revealing a small asian fellow wielding a mop as a weapon, and yelling "Supplies!", is one of my fondest memories of the eighties.
I'm with dr nic. and the man about town.
Seinfeld? hate. HATE.
What Susanne said. Never thought we'd have to list him in with Gibbo.
pirate - love. LOVE!
*appears, over the horizon to mskp and the pirate*
hove. HOVE!
i'll get me coat.
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