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Perhaps we can never get rid of the lying in Christmas cards. After all, it’s hard enough to get rid of Christmas cards already. As Jerry Seinfeld once observed, there is no clear time limit on how long you need to keep them, so people oftentimes will store them indefinitely, or at least for several months, on a mantle or refrigerator...
Richards, who played Kramer on the hit ’90s sitcom “Seinfeld,” was caught on video saying some very nasty things to two black men who supposedly interrupted his act at the Laugh Factory. (The men claim they were just ordering drinks.) Instead of using a witty line to put the hecklers in their place, Richards used a racist...
...difference with Richards is that he is white and he said something white people are not supposed to say. Jerry Seinfeld released a statement in which he called the incident a “mistake.” And maybe it was a mistake. When a white performer shouts the n-word at a black audience member and then explains, “This shocks you, it shocks you, to see what’s buried beneath…” it’s hard to believe that that’s part...
...Richards seemed to be going for that onstage: "It shocks you, to see what's buried beneath you!" Yet he was not entirely wrong--there is ugliness buried in people--and it's our responsibility as culture consumers to ask where he might be right. Some people swore off Seinfeld reruns after Richards' explosion. I say watch them again, and think about how the comically ugly characters reflect him, and you. You might find that looking at Seinfeld this way--learning, if not hugging--makes the humor deeper and maybe even funnier. Look to the cookie, indeed. But look...
GLORIA ALLRED, attorney for two comedy-club patrons who endured the racist rant of actor Michael Richards (Seinfeld's Kramer) and want a face-to-face apology--and a retired judge to decide on compensation...