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[ceebeegee]

Chris came over tonight and hung out while I baked a pecan pie for Thanksgiving. We were watching the news and the whole Michael Richards story was being discussed. CNN had obtained camera phone video of the incident--man, it is just...ugly. It's really ugly. The worst part isn't even the N-bomb, which he just throws out so many times. It's when he says "50 years ago..."--when he makes the reference to something that should never ever be remembered fondly or reminisced about...as in, there are some things worse than the N-word.

Like--where did this come from? We all saw the Mel Gibson meltdown a mile away. But this? Not that I've been following Michael Richard's career all that closely, but that kind of viciousness out of nowhere? I just don't understand.

I'm so sorry those people at the Laugh Factory had to sit through that. Nobody should have to hear that kind of filth flung at them.

His apology (on Letterman) seems very insincere, I'm sorry to say. It just seems mechanical.

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[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but apparently someone was using a recording device in a nightclub without permission.

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I'm curious what you mean by "we all saw the Mel Gibson meltdown coming..."

I, for one, was pretty damn shocked by that one.

He used the N WORD??

[neoscribe.livejournal.com]

Holy shizza! The bits of footage of it I saw on the news didn't include that.
Man, the guy must be out of his frickin' mind! It is one thing to snap in real life on the street or drunk or whatever, but to be on stage, where you have honed your craft and expose yourself as a biggot?
Yeah, Michael- dead career clean up on aisle 4...

[alexlady.livejournal.com]

yeah, he's outta here. the fact that hecklers made him flip out like that made him look sad in the first place, before he even started n bombing. making fun of people in the audience is one thing. but yeah, RAGE! i love that everyone starts walking out on him, and that the guy turns around and says something like, "maybe this is why you haven't gotten a tv show or a project since Seinfeld."

and then he acts like it's no big deal, but you can see he got punched in the jewels.