Former Seinfeld goofball Michael Richards is hoping to recover slightly from his career-ending racist heckler tirade at a comedy gig last November. He used the dreaded “N” word repeatedly and made an outrageous serious lynching reference to some people talking in the audience. Multiple apologies and attempts to make amends to the black community couldn’t erase the public’s memory of his angry outburst.
Comedian Bernie Mac, a friend of Richards, is going to hold a Friars Club comedy roast of the unfunny bigot with a team of four other African American comedians. He hopes it will help bring him back in the good graces of the public:
The 57-year-old former “Seinfeld” star – who was publically skewered for berating hecklers with the “n” word during his comedy club routine last year – will be put on the hot seat in a celebrity roast hosted by Bernie Mac.
A huge fan of the classic Dean Martin TV roasts, Bernie has lined up Michael to be the first “guest” grilled by fellow comedians for a new series of Friars club Roasts, which will air on cable and be released on DVD.
“Bernie and a panel of four other black comedians are preparing to verbally torch Michael for his past work and the public furuor he caused with his racist tirade,” said an insider.
Michael’s actually looking forward to the embarassing evening, said the insider.
He’s hoping the public humiliation will help improve his tarnished reputation….
Although you can be sure the remarks by Bernie and other comics will be cruel and merciless, Bernie is actually a friend of Michael.
[From The National Enquirer print edition, April 2, 2007]
That’s nice of Bernie and all, and I think that Richards does need to get a public lashing, but at the same time the guy doesn’t deserve another chance at a comedy career. He blew it royally.
Comedians are supposed to know how to handle hecklers and talkers, and if they don’t keep their cool the least they can do is to swear and throw shit like a normal person having a freak-out. Richards didn’t just use the “N” word, he brought up the shameful strange fruit past of the South as if murder was justifiable punishment for talking a little smack over his act. He said “50 years ago we’d have had you up a tree with a fork up your ass.” 50 years ago a little 14 year old boy was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. You don’t joke about things like that, and the way Richards said it, it wasn’t a joke.
Richards needs to go away for good and live in comfortable shame off the Seinfeld royalties.
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