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Written by Celebitchy
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8 Responses to “Bernie Mac and panel of black comics to roast Michael Richards”
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What Richards did was like joking about murdering the president. Of course you can make fun of the man, but if you joke in a public forum about murdering the president, the Secret Service will show up at your door soon afterwards. We’re not talking about the use of a forbidden word to get laughs or make a point, he made a reference to killing people for a minor offense because they’re black, and he meant it.
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Oh please. Its not as if the man raped children or anything. He’s a funny sitcom comedian but he obviously isn’t a talented stand up comedian and his lack of experience showed in his reaction to a heckler.
It’s so easy to point fingers at other people’s faults and mistakes. Every everyone who is trying to bury this man should learn a little forgiveness.
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it’s called white privelege…and sure he and Bernie Mac are ‘friends’…they hang out together at the Country Club. sounds my mother-in-law calling her maid Ruby her good friend but she still makes her come in through the back door. I’m sure this is a business arrangement and Bernie Mac is all too happy to ‘roast’ MR.
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you know, he didn’t call all black people niggers, he only said it to one specific guy. at the time, he was trying to say the worst possible thing he could to this man, and that word was “nigger”. name me a worse word to use against a person of african decent if you’re trying to actually demoralize the man.
that said, he’s only been funny as Kramer, and Kramer was only funny because of Seinfeld.
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I agree with rat, he was mad and came up with the worst thing he could think of to call that guy, who deserved to be retaliated against. Kinda like when I called my step father a goddam mother fucking son of a bitch. It was the nastiest thing my brain could spit out on short notice.
I don’t anger easily or often but I’ve certainly said things I didn’t really mean when angry. I’ve called someone a faggot before, and I love gay guys. He was an asshole and it fit him. Doesn’t make me anti-gay, just anti-that guy. -
Sort of reminds me of Mel Gibson telling a woman in his audience to “f” off. Not exactly done tactfully. What Richards did was loose his cool and become a spectacle. He made a mistake but nowadays you cannot get away with anything, we all should learn a lesson from this. That said, get over it.
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Hear, hear, celebitchy - the lynching reference was particularly horrific. Why are all you people apologizing for him?
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come now, you’re being way too hard on the man. he’s not a racist, and not a bigot… although i freely admit that he’s not funny either. he was great in seinfeld, but obviously isn’t cut out to be a stand-up comedian. i’ve seen the video footage, and he was trying to shock the audience, he was winging it and tried to get shock laughs. it was stupid of him, and it wasn’t funny on any level… but he didn’t mean any harm. if he’s good friends with bernie mac than he’s obviously not a racist! if he was a bigot than he wouldn’t want to be close with bernie, nor would bernie want to be close with him. cut him some slack. besides, the 1st amendment, freedom of speech, is what makes america so great, and if gloria aldridge has it her way, that will go out the window… it’s a slippery slope. what’s next, not being able to make stupid unfunny jokes about president bush?
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