Well, it's only been a few months since Mel Gibson was caught by on tape cursing & spewing ignorance at LAPD while "drunk driving". Mel's excuse at the time was that he was drunk & didn't mean any harm in his anti-Semitic, misogynist rant. He quickly darted off to rehab because, you see, alcohol seems to bring out the racist in all of us. Thoughts that we would never verbalize when we're sober. It wasn't until his public embarrasment that he realized that he's an alcoholic.
Just over the weekend another celeb has found himself embroiled in a similar debacle. After the pixie dust has settled after Tom & Katie's wedding, news & video broke of Michael Richards ( a.k.a Kramer) flipping out on a few African American hecklers at a comedy club in LA. Once again, tmz.com was able to supply the video. In addition to being an idiot, Richards proved that he isn't funny because he lacks what every comedian needs: timing. Michael Richard's stand up meltdown occurred the weekend prior to a Season 7 Seinfeld dvd being released. I am a huge Seinfeld fan. This weekend, when I saw the commercials, I was thinking about buying the dvd even though I could probably catch about 3 or 4 episodes on any given night between Fox & TBS. Even with this knowledge, I feel that I need to own the dvd for the episodes that they don't air when I want to watch them. However, this incident has tainted the way I view the show and Jerry Seinfeld.
Last night, Jerry Seinfeld started doing the rounds on various shows to promote the latest dvd. While he just happened to be on the Dave Letterman show, Michael Richards coincidentally enough was live via satellite to apologize. He said that he's not racist & he just lost it. Jerry came to Michael's defense & said that the whole incident was a "mistake". Which begs the question, which part is a "mistake"? Showing one's true colors & it was caught on tape or the statements? In this instance, poor Michael doesn't have alcohol to blame his previously unbeknownst to him racist side on.
Whatever the vice is...Anger, Alcohol...that brings out someone's true personality... Ignorance... is So Unpretty.
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do you think he would have ever apologized to those guests in particular if he wasn't taped?
Probably not. Then it would have been his word against the audience members. If he weren't caught on tape, he probably would've said it was part of his act. If you've seen or heard his tirade, it's pretty vile
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