KKKramer
Michael Richards, once the clueless Kramer on "Seinfeld," recently responded to a heckler at a comedy club by launching into a racist rant, including numerous uses of the n-word. (See it and hear it at http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/. )
I just don't get it. I've done stand-up comedy, and I've never been heckled.
Here are a couple of tips:
1.) Pack the room with as many friends as you can.
2.) (This one may only work if you are a Baptist minister): I've found it helps, once you've been introduced as such to drop a fat juicy expletive into the routine as early as possible: it stuns some and makes others laugh quickly, so you're already ahead of the game. (Sorry, Margaret.)
If I ever got heckled, I would go no further than pointing out that the heckler was stupid, rude and quite possibly drunk. If you can't make comeback hay out of stupid, rude and possibly drunk, you really don't belong on the stage.
I just don't get it. I've done stand-up comedy, and I've never been heckled.
Here are a couple of tips:
1.) Pack the room with as many friends as you can.
2.) (This one may only work if you are a Baptist minister): I've found it helps, once you've been introduced as such to drop a fat juicy expletive into the routine as early as possible: it stuns some and makes others laugh quickly, so you're already ahead of the game. (Sorry, Margaret.)
If I ever got heckled, I would go no further than pointing out that the heckler was stupid, rude and quite possibly drunk. If you can't make comeback hay out of stupid, rude and possibly drunk, you really don't belong on the stage.
posted by Michael Riley at 9:21 AM
12 Comments:
"This one may only work if you are a Baptist minister: I've found it helps, once you've been introduced as such to drop a fat juicy expletive into the routine as early as possible..." -- Michael Riley
Yeah, a minister that is gratuitously vulgar -- that ought to leave rolling in the aisles. Riley, you slay me. (Sarcasm off)
leave "them" rolling ... typo
Regardless of whether a Baptist minister dropping a fat juicy expletive is funny or not, what Michael Richards did is inexcusable. This goes well beyond political correctness. It is as bad as Mel Gibson's anti-Semitism.
Mr. Riley wouldn't know funny if it fell on him, Margaret, which is precisely why the APP should give his job to Dave Barry or someone else with talent.
You want funny and/or interesting, Riley? Here's a blog idea that I came up with in about ... oh ... a minute. It's not nearly as funny as "KKKramer" or having the MC at a local comedy club announce that you are a Baptist minister only to have you take the stage and then yell "F__ You!" at the crowd, but then again, I am no pro. Here's my stab at the blog you should have written:
"I notice that Shrewsbury Borough essentially banned hunting within its borders last night."
Shrewsbury Says NO to Local Hunters
"Why they would do this is beyond me. God knows there are way too many deer getting hit on Shrewsbury's roadways already. Besides, I've known a few bad-ass deer in my day that could more than hold their own against, say, some wussy middle-aged man in the woods with a bow -- to wit:
One Bad Ass Deer
Granted, my idea could use a little polishing up, but then again the APP isn't giving me a salary and health insurance to do just that. That said, more than a few that view the above "Revenge of the Deer" video would think it was funny. Many would even send the link to their friends and perhaps even create a little "buzz" about the blog where they found the video. Bottom line: They would show up tomorrow to see what else I had to write. That is, I am afraid, not at all the case with respect to The Michael Riley blog site.
Hey,"anonymous", I just viewed your deer video clip and I'm praying that the man in the video being handed a big dose of whoop-ass is you because your personal tirade(s) against Mr. Riley are borderline creepy/stalkish..get a life chump..
Good-anon: Well, I certainly hope the local police find the guy that put a gun to "Reverend" Riley's head and forced him to create and maintain a blog where he invites or otherwise welcomes the comments of those reading said blog.
You know, I was wondering if the "Anonymous" person who writes all these vitriolic blogs to Riley is really Riley himself. That would make sense because the average reader loves to read garbage like that.
Riley isn't that smart, Menuval.
I keep wondering what exactly is it that anonymous has against Michael Riley being a paid staff writer by the APP. Do I detect a note of jealously there? I think giving an opinion about this second case of an actor "losing it" and spouting racial slurs is more important because we need to decide if said actor can convince us that this bigotry was totally unlike him and for the life of him he can't understand what devil possessed him at the time. Do you believe this- I don't. But listen- seems that Mel Gibson is forgiven already for his anti- semitic tirade. Will the "n" word use be more difficult for the public to excuse?
"I keep wondering what exactly is it that anonymous has against Michael Riley being a paid staff writer by the APP. Do I detect a note of jealously there?" -- OlderAndWiser
Not hardly! I doubt I could support myself, much less a family, on what the APP pays Michael Riley. If anything, I would like to see Dave Barry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, benefit from having the editors of the APP (finally) recognize Michael Riley's lack of talent. Suffice it to say, I am not Dave Barry.
Dave Barry's Official Web Site
Let me assure everyone that I am not anonymous. It would take some serious amount of self-loathing/Sybil-like kink in the old mental garden hose to say those kind of nasty things about myself.
I happen to like me.
It sounds like anonymous has "pen-envy" for Mr. Riley because no one has seen fit to pay anonymous for his self-proclaimed "writing" skills...perhaps his submissions were declined by publishers in the past and he is jealous. Doesn't sound very "catholic"/Christian or charitable asyou try to portray yourself in your daily rantings against Mr.Riley...use your wasted time doing more good for society..donate something/volunteer..harness your angry aggression into some good..Happy Thanksgiving anonymous..
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