Tramedy... The Fall of "Kramer"
Witizens,
In a world filled with hate, we could all use a little bit more comedy. However, a group of laugh-seekers found themselves being inundated with hate at a comedy club of all places, and there was nothing funny about it. Michael Richards, most notoriously known as Cosmo "Kramer" on the acclaimed television series Seinfeld, had a blow up and breakdown during his stand up routine at the comedy club "The Laugh Factory". (If you go to Youtube.com and search for Richards, you too can bear witness to his undoing.) Apparently, some of the audience members, who coincidentally were black, were interrupting his act by talking, and may have heckled him on top of that. Richards thought the best way to deal with the situation was to become the most racist and antagonistic comedian ever to be born; the audience members and America does not agree. I was shocked to see him lose it like that, and more so, what he was harboring in his heart. Ultimately, I was shocked and appalled that people continued to enjoy a show and comedian that were clearly unraveling before their eyes.
I am well aware racism is alive and well, and perhaps, will never die. I have accepted this. I also accept that Michael Richards may be a racist. What annoyed me about the clip I watched was that some audience members laughed through the whole incident, as if "Kramer" was just being crazy, spunky "Kramer"; rather than noting that Michael Richards was being an angry bigot. The word nigger has too much weight and power for my liking. Fuck saying "The 'N' Word"; nothing is too horrible to say. Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger... there. It's silliness. Richards screaming nigger over and over wasn't as big an issue for me as the maliciousness he was going for by screaming the word. Ranting and screaming about what would have happened fifty years ago to blacks, with a notion that it's a pity that it's not currently still in practice, is fucking outrageous. If we are to get past, well, the past, then in the present, that kind of ignorance is a huge setback to getting over it. Michael Richards isn't "Kramer", and if "Kramer" was as racist as Richards, then Seinfeld wouldn't have lasted a season, and he wouldn't have been the lovable character we know so well.
An apology was made to "Afro-Americans" (shakes head) on Letterman after the incident (which can also be viewed on Youtube.com), but I could care less. I'm not convinced. Neither was the Letterman audience who continued to laugh as if wacky "Kramer" was at it again, couldn't take him serious; Seinfeld, Richards, and Letterman tried to stop the giggles. I do believe that he is truly sorry he won't get much work, the public thinks he's a dick, and now his career will be overshadowed by his outburst. However, do I think he is apologizing to niggers, I mean Afro-Americans? Again, I'm not convinced. I'm only convinced that that man needs cue cards at ALL times, and should not speak unless his PR clears his statements. "I'm sorry" won't take anything back, and in most cases, it only serves as insurance it won't happen again... in public, at least. But what's done is done, and our idea of wacky "Kramer" is done. As that heckling nigger so eloquently put it, "You're done... all you had was Seinfeld... that's it"; I too agree that Richards is finished. One way to become Hollywood poison and America's most mocked is to have a racial outburst before the masses. True enough, comedian Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia incorporate a lot of racial jokes into their routine, but it's not one group in particular; they are equal opportunity racists. They also don't deliver their jokes with hatred and malice oozing from every pore. I would have been disappointed and appalled at whatever ethnic group Richards spazzed on, but condoning what the Klan would and should do to niggers is like a comedian joking that Hitler had the most brilliant idea of what to do with the Jews. See... it'll never be funny. Perhaps that talk is better left at the rallies, Mr. Richards, not at comedy clubs. Tsk tsk.
Truly,
Not~So~Cosmo ("Kramer")
P.S. When were forks stuck up upside down niggers' asses? Did I miss that in history class?
In a world filled with hate, we could all use a little bit more comedy. However, a group of laugh-seekers found themselves being inundated with hate at a comedy club of all places, and there was nothing funny about it. Michael Richards, most notoriously known as Cosmo "Kramer" on the acclaimed television series Seinfeld, had a blow up and breakdown during his stand up routine at the comedy club "The Laugh Factory". (If you go to Youtube.com and search for Richards, you too can bear witness to his undoing.) Apparently, some of the audience members, who coincidentally were black, were interrupting his act by talking, and may have heckled him on top of that. Richards thought the best way to deal with the situation was to become the most racist and antagonistic comedian ever to be born; the audience members and America does not agree. I was shocked to see him lose it like that, and more so, what he was harboring in his heart. Ultimately, I was shocked and appalled that people continued to enjoy a show and comedian that were clearly unraveling before their eyes.
I am well aware racism is alive and well, and perhaps, will never die. I have accepted this. I also accept that Michael Richards may be a racist. What annoyed me about the clip I watched was that some audience members laughed through the whole incident, as if "Kramer" was just being crazy, spunky "Kramer"; rather than noting that Michael Richards was being an angry bigot. The word nigger has too much weight and power for my liking. Fuck saying "The 'N' Word"; nothing is too horrible to say. Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger... there. It's silliness. Richards screaming nigger over and over wasn't as big an issue for me as the maliciousness he was going for by screaming the word. Ranting and screaming about what would have happened fifty years ago to blacks, with a notion that it's a pity that it's not currently still in practice, is fucking outrageous. If we are to get past, well, the past, then in the present, that kind of ignorance is a huge setback to getting over it. Michael Richards isn't "Kramer", and if "Kramer" was as racist as Richards, then Seinfeld wouldn't have lasted a season, and he wouldn't have been the lovable character we know so well.
An apology was made to "Afro-Americans" (shakes head) on Letterman after the incident (which can also be viewed on Youtube.com), but I could care less. I'm not convinced. Neither was the Letterman audience who continued to laugh as if wacky "Kramer" was at it again, couldn't take him serious; Seinfeld, Richards, and Letterman tried to stop the giggles. I do believe that he is truly sorry he won't get much work, the public thinks he's a dick, and now his career will be overshadowed by his outburst. However, do I think he is apologizing to niggers, I mean Afro-Americans? Again, I'm not convinced. I'm only convinced that that man needs cue cards at ALL times, and should not speak unless his PR clears his statements. "I'm sorry" won't take anything back, and in most cases, it only serves as insurance it won't happen again... in public, at least. But what's done is done, and our idea of wacky "Kramer" is done. As that heckling nigger so eloquently put it, "You're done... all you had was Seinfeld... that's it"; I too agree that Richards is finished. One way to become Hollywood poison and America's most mocked is to have a racial outburst before the masses. True enough, comedian Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia incorporate a lot of racial jokes into their routine, but it's not one group in particular; they are equal opportunity racists. They also don't deliver their jokes with hatred and malice oozing from every pore. I would have been disappointed and appalled at whatever ethnic group Richards spazzed on, but condoning what the Klan would and should do to niggers is like a comedian joking that Hitler had the most brilliant idea of what to do with the Jews. See... it'll never be funny. Perhaps that talk is better left at the rallies, Mr. Richards, not at comedy clubs. Tsk tsk.
Truly,
Not~So~Cosmo ("Kramer")
P.S. When were forks stuck up upside down niggers' asses? Did I miss that in history class?
posted by Not So Cosmo @ 10:27 AM
3 Comments:
At 4:06 PM,
Will Work For Shoes said…
I watched that clip with my mouth open. I think he was trying to be funny at first and then it just got out of hand. And I saw plenty of people leaving on the clip. I like them.
At 4:08 PM,
Will Work For Shoes said…
P.S. I think it was the club is called The Laugh Factory. I tried to edit but it wouldn't let me since it wasn't my post. :-)
At 9:35 AM,
Not So Cosmo said…
Will & Shoes,
I deffo think it was meant as a joke that spiraled out of control. That's why I had little patience for the people laughing while the poor guy was breaking down. For the people that just dumped it, they made me happy. I still don't think I would have gotten into a racial argument with him, like that guy did... Unless I called him a "Saltine Cracker", "Honky" (George Jefferson stylie), or "K~K~Kramer", but only for real humor's sake, not hate. Mostly, I think I would have said, "This sucks..." under my breath and dipped out. Though, we can't all be pacifists.
N~S~C
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