What do you think about Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld) yelling the N-word at his comedy show?
922043
I think he's brilliant.
872934
I watched a special on the life of Richard Pryor last night (Because I love him!)\n\nbut I noticed how all of the comedians kept saying things about white people that aren't true...  They generalized and made public assumptions that we are all; rich, white, socially oblivious, nerds, geeks, and hold down and abuse blacks, that we own everything, control everything and keep every good thing from them intentionally...  \n\nI am white...and I have never once in my life done any of the above.  \n\nNot all of us are rich, not all of us are even pure white, not all of us are socially oblivious and not all of us are any one thing really...\n\nSo my point is stating this here is;  \n\n"Look what you get when the pot calls the kettle black."  \n\na bunch of people being ignorant and feeling that they are somehow justified in doing the very same thing that they hate in return,  to feel better about the fact that a narrow minded margin of white people first did it to them... YEARS AGO!\n\nYou can't expect people to forget and move on from a tragedy if you keep constantly reminding them of it...\n\nLet's move on now... If they can let go that is and start to live above the influence of the past?  I honestly believe that it is manipulative and incendiary...\n\nI for one... will not forget how an innocent white man just happened to wander into down town LA during a riot and was almost beaten to death by 6 men with a brick for NOTHING!  He was on his way to WORK!  \n\nThat... is what comes of people not allowing the past to be the past and let it go!  RIOTS and hatred for those who are innocent... but guilty because they are the same color...
872007
I dont know but of course they arent accountable for their actions. Apparently its ok to harass someone when they are trying to give a performance. Im not a fan of the comedian or of the Seinfeld show and its former characters but I do think Richards wasnt the only jerk in this.
878252
Sincere? yes.  Is it something he had to do? yes. is he racist? yes. does he want to be racist? No! ..........let the heeling begin.\n Should black comics use the N word? No! they have a moral obligation to stop also.
944630
I too wanted to defend him because I loved him on Seinfield, then I watched the tape, and I gotta say, those remarks were uncalled for, he could've went about that a different way.  And also African Americans are very mature, we all don't resort to violence because someone wants to be an ahole, that is their problem.  Those hecklers were wrong, but what comedian don't have to deal with constructive Criticism? He appeared to be a racist in my book because people really do say what they mean when they are angry--their true colors show.  at first I didn't care about him sayng the N word but when he said the lynch speech I had to turn it off because I couldn't believe he stooped that low... sucks for him right now...
1004339
I would say ''thats for  being racists your crackers!!'' and laugh my ass off
866665
I think there is always two sides to every story.  I also think the real Michael Richards came out, but I will not  crucify him forever, so he is a racist, he vented it out. This will not affect his career, because his career has been affected since Seinfeld ended, Michael Richards will never be able to pair up a Kramer again, this having nothing to do with his outburst at the club.
1104570
nope, but i agree with you - he and Eddie Fatu will be better if they were babyfaces.  I loved that part:\n"(Cuban statements)... Everybody listen (remove shades) haha to me.  My name is (crowd joins in) Armando Alejandro Estrrrrrrrrrrrrrada. Let me introduce to you my Samoan Bulldozer, Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumaga (crowd boos)."\n\nHehe LOL
923969
i think he went over the line with the comments, but i understand them. i don't think he said them because he has these deep-seeded feelings though. i think he said them out of anger, he unwisely chose the terms that he figured would hurt the heckler the most.\n I understood the anger. Comedians HATE hecklers. Why? they are getting paid for a monolgue, 99% of them have their act scripted out for them ahead of time, they only have so much time on stage, so when they have to deal with a heckler for ten minutes is screws up their act. Some people don't understand this at all. here is a great video that illustrates the point http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/09/comedian-heckled.html\nthe comedian uses the term "towel-head" and a do-gooder liberal lady in the audience is offended by the term. She will NOT let the comedian move on with the joke or his act. he tells her numerous times to shut up and it ends up with her running up on stage and assaulting the comedian. Who is she to stop the show? What is going on in her head? Does she think everyone in the audience agrees with her and it's her duty to stop the show? Apparently that's the case. People wuld never dream of doing this in a movie theater. if the movie isn't to your taste, you get up and leave. Comedy performers and the audience at a live show deserve the same respect.\n That doesn't excuse michael richards' racial tyrade though. he should have handled it better.
705411
i'd hate to be in this shoes right now.I guess he has a lot of ANGER issues and exploded.REAAAAAAALLY BIG MISTAKE.He's not even that famous except when he was on Seinfeld.Being a comedian like himself,he should know better how to deal with hecklers and tried hard to restrain his emotions and ignore them,if the hecklers were truly out of line,security or even other crowd members would have down something about it.But to be so stupid and react like that was sooooooo UNPROFESSIONAL just showed the world a mean ugly side of him that will make everybody just forget about him much more than before.Poor guy.\n\n that's KARMA: you get what you throw out into the world!
851508
I think it's a double standard due to the fact that rappers say the "N" word (No I don't use it!!) every other word!! And you hear all these little hip hop clowns refer to themselves as it again every other word...I have no problem with the fact that he snapped and called them something they probably refered to themselves as all day long anyway....It was the comment that precipitated it\n\n"If it was 50 years ago you'd be hanging upside down with a fork in your a*s" That blew my mind...\n\nSomething like that just doesn't roll off your tongue unless you've thought about it before..That was unbelievably offensive and crossed every there was to cross in my mind!! The dudes career has been dead for years. So I can't even say he buried himself with that comment...But he sure let people know where his mind lies..He's racist no if's ands or buts about it.
723751
This was the shot in the arm that black America needed. Unfortunately it took an incident like this but now we see what it is like for someone of the opposite race to use the N word in the same manner that some blacks use it. When black comedians use it, it is accepted by most blacks and they don't realize how ugly a word it can be. In a way, we should thank Michael Richards for what he did, he put it in our faces and now we know how it truly feels. I hope that this would pressure black performers who use it on a regular basis to end the practice of that word. If they continue to use it after this then they are nothing more then hypocrites, but who knows maybe in a year or two some other white comedian will remind us once again how ugly the N word really is.
910038
Yes, and I don't really understand why you're defending him. When people get angry or drunk their true colors come to the surface. Him using the "n" word wasn't even the big point, it was the context in which he used it. If saying the "n" word doesn't mean you're a racist then why is the "n" word a racial slur?
1060300
Do you agree that people have the right to use profanity at pizza hut? \n\nOf course they do.....last week  Marg brought her youngest child Billy Wayne, who is 5, to work. Seems the babysitter had another nervous breakdown. ...but that's another story\n.\nAnyway.... Billy Wayne crawled under a booth by the door and  every time someone in sweats or shorts  went by...\nHe yelled "London Bridges falling Down" and then he'd give a big tug on their pants or shorts.\n\nThe other customers loved it. Marge was horrified. Diego the cook thought it was hilarious too, until Billy Wayne jerked his pants down to his ankles...that was when Diego started after Billy Wayne with a butcher knife,  and calling that child horrid names in Spanish .....oh well.....the gang down there always has something going on don't they?
949179
A. Responding to people like this only gives them power.\nB. It isnt your job to forgive or not forgive Kramer. First of all, you don't even know him, and besides, that's god's job\nC. Why would you try to punish the other actors, writers, etc . . . for the bad behavior of Michael Richards?\nD. Seinfeld is over, and the repeats are immensely popular, so there is probably nothing you can do\nE. In this country, we have been given the freedom of speech. In order for you and I to be able to say the things that WE want to, we must also, sadly at times, allow all others to say the things that they want to say, even if we dont agree with them. It's not freedom of the speech we agree with, its freedom of speech, period.\nF. If you have to force someone to apologize, its not a real apology anyway. My thought is that he wouldnt have said those things if he didnt mean them in the first place, so any apology at this point would be insincere.\nG. The man is a washed up actor. What he thinks doesnt matter.
843210
Sure, I believe him..\nAND..\nI don't care a bit about his having made these remarks ...\nI am so sick of this inane insane double standard political correctness I could puke...\nHave you ever watched the comics, black & white, at the Apollo \non HBO ???....Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, on and on and on...\nTotally racist profanity and not one word of complaint from anyone.
1131502
Yes hes super funny...\n\nI heard somewhere that hispanic people DONT like him...\n\nI hope its a rumor