Comments on: Kramer?

By: Buck

Buck — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:06:25 +0000

we become unsensitive and this outburst the result

I guess it could be easier to explain at a comedy club than say in a macaca situation like Allen was in.
I am more disturbed by the stupidity than I am the insensitivity.

By: Bill Baar

Bill Baar — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:37:10 +0000

…embedded bigotry lies dormant…

Maybe, but I’m more inclined to think he learned it, and recently… We have crude comedy, a crude culture; this is just a small leap… we become unsensitive and this outburst the result

By: Joe Lance

Joe Lance — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:38:45 +0000

I did like “Seinfeld,” but have come to understand that a goodly portion of its genius came from Larry David. See “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

I’m intrigued by Sharon Cobb’s theory that embedded bigotry lies dormant in a great many who grew up in a time when such attitudes were more plainly expressed, and that this bigotry, of whatever stripe, can be triggered by some circumstance.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:11:03 +0000

Always have and always will love Kramer. I don’t know Michael Richards.

My first reaction was, “why is a guy who is probably worth countless millions messing around in a two bit comedy club anyway?”

The person most hurt by Michael Richards was Michael Richards. Only Chris Rock can get away with that kind of thing.

By: Bill Baar

Bill Baar — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:36:01 +0000

I haven’t paid much attention although I did play the clip on the net. American Comedy has gone to the gutter and I think that’s what were seeing. It’s corrosive. It’s corroded this man’s soul.

By: h sofia

h sofia — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:36:37 +0000

I have never been a huge fan of the show, Seinfeld, but my interest waned even further after listening to the audio CD recording of Jails, Hospitals and Hip Hop, the one-man show of Danny Hoch. In one of the chapters he describes his experience trying to convince the producers and other actors of the show to not cater to racial stereotypes. According to him Michael Richards (Kramer) urged him to do the character that he felt very uncomfortable with with a rationalization along the lines of, “Pretend that you’re not really doing it.” Also, my opinion of Seinfeld the comedian pretty much tanked after hearing Hoch’s piece.