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...equal opportunity racism must admit that contemporary culture grants a special leeway to public figures who mock their own ethnic group. It is hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character did, it landed him a hit TV show and an Oscar-nominated film...
...gods have trumped Rosie O'Donnell: she's announced her resignation from The View, citing a contract dispute with ABC. Vocal O'Donnell basher Donald Trump, with whom the outspoken comedian has conducted a colorful public feud, shared a different theory with FOX NEWS: "Barbara [Walters] is the happiest person in the world that Rosie's been fired." SCORE...
TIME's interview with the actor and comedian continues on Time.com. Read these extra questions with Chevy Chase...
...feel a comedian with such tremendous success initially in his career, like yourself, becomes better at their craft over time or do you think they lose their touch? -Daniel Iampieri in Ellicott City, Maryland I think the answer is one does not lose touch. One only gets better at their craft through work. It is a tricky question. The answer is also that as one gets older the core audiences are younger and their reference points are different. What they laugh at and find funny, as those opposed to me, who came out of the '60s and '70s, is different...
...talk ... You're brave now, motherf___er. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger." MICHAEL RICHARDS, comedian, to a heckler AFTERMATH: Cell-phone video of the tirade was posted on TMZ.com and Richards apologized but became the object of many protests and jokes. OUTRAGE FACTOR...