Comments on: 'Seinfeld's' Richards Spews Racial Slurs

Jerry Seinfeld Speaks Out On Former Co-Star's Derogatory Remarks At Comedy Club

[czarhezar]

Lets face it, there's prejudice in every single human being regardless of race.

[hermit22]

Rap guys have been spewing the n-word across this nation for ages, and when someone uses the word they taught, they beat on him for it, what is crazy about this picture?

If all the vulgar foul mouths of Hollyweird were lined up and forced to appologize to the world for 29 seconds, we would all be here until 2042.

[candytee]

The whole situaton is very upsetting

I Dont thnk he is racist at all , He just has a very ,very ,very bad ANGER PROBLEM & took the heckling very personal

Remember the last time you were very angry with anyone ? , When you are that mad, Your only UNCONCIOUS goal is too hurt the other persons feelings

I know most people who dont know the RAGE of true anger will just say he is racist & that was his true colors

If you dont want to believe it was anger , Take this example AND THINK ABOUT IT REALLY GOOD:

Most people who kill a human do it out of some anger (Jealousy, Disrespect, Etc)


And we all have that in us as humans when are are RAGING MAD

[candytee]

The whole situaton is very upsetting

I Dont thnk he is racist at all , He just has a very ,very ,very bad ANGER PROBLEM & took the heckling very personal

Remember the last time you were very angry with anyone ? , When you are that mad, Your only UNCONCIOUS goal is too hurt the other persons feelings

I know most people who dont know the RAGE of true anger will just say he is racist & that was his true colors

If you dont want to believe it was anger , Take this example AND THINK ABOUT IT REALLY GOOD:

Most people who kill a human do it out of some anger (Jealousy, Disrespect, Etc)


And we all have that in us as humans when are are RAGING MAD

[candytee]

The whole situaton is very upsetting

I Dont thnk he is racist at all , He just has a very ,very ,very bad ANGER PROBLEM & took the heckling very personal

Remember the last time you were very angry with anyone ? , When you are that mad, Your only UNCONCIOUS goal is too hurt the other persons feelings

I know most people who dont know the RAGE of true anger will just say he is racist & that was his true colors

If you dont want to believe it was anger , Take this example AND THINK ABOUT IT REALLY GOOD:

Most people who kill a human do it out of some anger (Jealousy, Disrespect, Etc)

[intelectual-2009]

George Lopez said it best: "He's no stand up comedian, He's an actor. He shouldn't have been there in the first place". But I know if someone is heckling me on stage I'm gonna call them every name in the book. He's a human being and he is entitled to make a mistake. Besides if your name is kramer you will be saying stupid things and calling people unmentionable names. soon all this will be forgotten and life at seinfeld land will be back to normal. Ask Newman if he got my mail, while your at it.

[dexbyte]

I just caught his segment on Letterman. The man took responsibility for his actions and apologized and will have to deal with the consequences for the rest of his career. Enough said, this black man says let's move on....

[usmcf4j]

I never found Kramer to be very funny, or the Seinfeld Show in general, to be very entertaining.
But, most people who go to comedy clubs should realize that today's so-called comedians usually result to vulgarity and shock to get aplause. I'm not defending his comments, they were obviously insensitive and offensive. However, if someone is going to heckle a "so-called" comedian, they should be prepared to suffer his or her rath, as ignorant as it may be!!

[kailumego1]

You're right, but this guy is a racist, comedians make jokes about each other, different races etc., but there is a line you don't cross, i.e. the Holocaust, lynching, etc. But he crossed the line, I am not sure what his nationality is, but if he's Jewish, he would have been in an uproar if a black, white, etc. comedian made an insidious and insensitive comment about the Holocaust, i.e. what if the gentleman in the audience replied, yeah, and if you were back in Nazi Germany the only jokes you would be able to tell is behind a barb wire fence or gas chamber. I'm quite sure if Dave Chappell included this type of insidious humor in his comic routine, he would be boo off the stage. I heard a white comedian on HBO make comments about 50 cent, he said blacks can't shoot, because if had came to an Italian neighborhood it wouldn't have taken nine shots, two and he would be dead, plus he mentioned the n#$## word and people laughed, it was funny. The crowd was predominately black, and they loved him, big difference, he didn't go below the belt.
And I'm quite surpised at the number of whites who rationalize this type of behavior, it just demonstrates that nothing has changed.

[lucasnico]

I have a hard time understanding people who make such harsh racial.....no, hated racial statements, and then stand back and say, oh...that's not me....don't know where that came from. Michael Richards and Mel Gibson...maybe deep down that is you. Maybe you need to get help, and maybe we need to stop making excuses for these people.

[loveplayaboy]

Chapelle uses slurs about every race. He has no limits. And, he is crafty about it, unlike Richards. Chapelle is a good-stand up comedian, but Richards is not.

[kailumego1]

This doesn't surprise me one bit, blacks on one side and whites on another, with those defenders comparing this obnoxious comment to Dave Chappell, an interesting rationalization. If Chappell is using in his comedy act, racial obnoxious slurs about whites then he should apologize as well, however, using his routine to justify or rationalize this %u201Cvileness%u201D is a low.
I was never much of a fan of Seinfeld, so I can imagine the impact it has had on some, but I%u2019m quite sure those who choose to rationalize this type of insidious behavior, should have no problem rationalizing O.J. Simpson%u2019s tell all book.

[loveplayaboy]

BLASPHEMY

[dreyerwolf]

I watched the video of this incident. It really did seem to me that he was going for an "Andy Kaufmann"-like shock comedy bit when the heckler starting in on him. If any of you remember some of Andy's planned heckler confontations, they were raw, emotional, and Andy totally loved getting that kind of reaction out of a crowd. It didn't come off to me like he was really actualy angry, almost like it was actually part of the act, like it was some sort of shock material he decided to try out. Of course it went totally bad from the start and your not going to pull it all out of the flames after that.

[ronniehm]

You're right. It's a double standard. Some might even call it hypocrisy. And no, I don't find Dave's routines very funny, but then I'm not 16 years old.

[loveplayaboy]

Okay, if you have a problem when Blacks do it, I understand. But, I'm cool with it dude. But, everyone should be cool when Dave Chapelle makes fun of people. Dave makes fun of everyone equally. And he is super funny, way funnier than Richards and Seinfeld put together. All I am saying is the to a white guy from the suburbs, Chapelle is an idol. Forget the double standard when it comes to Chapelle.

[ronniehm]

I have no idea who you're arguing with about Richards. There's aren't two sides to it. What he did was wrong. However, if you think it's not wrong when black people do it, you need to start wearing your helmet.

[loveplayaboy]

Well then I guess I'll be stupid, as long as I don't have a problem with it. But, if someone has a problem with me calling them a certain name, I'll just make fun of them some other way. There are millions of ways to poke fun at people without having to inflict anger. Besides, I would miss Dave Chapelle making fun of white folks. Have you watched this guy. He is hilarious. Go to youtube.com and type in Wu-Tang Financial. funny stuff.

[mickeyjay31-2009]

As someone who has spent thirty-eight years doing strand up, what Richards did is not comedy, let alone funny.

[loveplayaboy]

Because I play football, am from the Detroit area, and my school is diverse, I can see both sides of the argument. From an all white perpective, I can see how one can defend Richards and try to put the pasts of slavery. But, from another POV, I see that slavery still exists in another form and bringing up certain stuff is still sentitive. It's not your fault Ronnie, I'm sure you don't want to be accounted for anything. But, the fact of the matter is, there is still a social divide that creates hostility between the different races in America. Blacks are not equal to whites. Many of the blacks on my team live in poorer houses and apartments. MAking fun of how they got to their current state is mean and should make them mad. I know if I were in the same situation, I would be angry. But it's still kind of hard to imagine since I live in a big house.