“Kramer” Gone Coo-Coo, but How about if the Hecklers Take Some Responsibility? … Uhhhohh, Yeah!
“Kramer” Gone Coo-Coo, but How about if the Hecklers Take Some Responsibility? … Uhhhohh, Yeah!
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What the hell got into Richards to make him lose his nut that way?Was it his doppelganger? And who would that evil twin be, really, Kramer or Richards? |
I’ll tell you what got into or to him to make him start hurling invectives…including the “n” word. Hecklers. The insidious, insipid, intrepid absurd ass—-s whom teachers and comics alike find part of the job but painfully so: the big mouthed buffoon who thinks he is class clown, or competing comic, or bigger authority, that’s who.
According to TMZ, LBN, NBC, ABC, CBS, and probably CNN any minute now, Michael Richards, aka Cosmo Kramer of the best TV show to ever come and go, Seinfeld, was performing onstage at West Hollywood’s Laugh Factory.
“Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully [my italics] heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.”
Hecklers suck.
And what the hell are hecklers good for, anyway? Who in their right minds pays money to see a celebrity comic (one much bigger and better at comedy than the hecklers to begin with), and then spends that time doing all the talking/interrupting?
This isn’t the Shakespearean era, where you go with your flagon of ale and your pile of chestnuts and interact with the performers as you drop your nut shells, swill your beer, and piss right where you are standing.
The hecklers claim they were tossing out some “innocent” remarks. But I can only imagine that for a seasoned and much-adored performer like Richards (for many of us our favorite show is Seinfeld and our favorite character is and always will be Kramer) had to have been more than burdened by the heckling. The heckling must have gone on and on and on–intrusively, invasively, distractingly….
And what about respect for the other patrons? You do realize, you pains in the ass, that they paid to see and hear Richards, not Kyle Doss. Kyle Doss. Who in the hell is that?
Oh, he is the new Rodney King, apparently, for once the news hit that Richards lost it and starting hurling that most controversial of racial epithets—one which many are allowed to use and many others are not, by the way—the Black/African American newscasters, pundits, social scientists, politicians, and others had to start discussing the consequences and contradictions and complications of being black, being a heckler, being called a n—, etc., etc., etc., blah, blah, blah….
For God’s sake: the call and response of the church service, leaked into the movie houses, and making its way into the comedy clubs, is severely misplaced.
When you go to a comedy club, keep your mouth shut—save to step up to the ticket counter and say “two cheap seats, please.”
Dear Kyle and friends, Richards has apologized, now don’t you think you ought to?
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I think the best solution to ease the pain and suffering would be for Richards to pay money to anyone that may have been offended. The more offended the larger the payment. Maybe a million each for each person offended. They can set up a web site that offended people could register, something similar to a bridal registry.
Comment by webmaster — November 30, 2006 @ 10:45 pm