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Monday, November 27, 2006Crybabies
The same lawyer that's representing the frat boys who were "victimized" by Sascha Baron Cohen in the Borat movie is also working for the two guys who were called names by Michael Richards. Y'know, this is just wrong.
Let me be clear: there's no excuse for the crap that Kramer was spewing on that stage. If he was attempting some kind of Andy Kauffman-esque Comedy of Discomfort, he did a piss-poor job of it. If he really was just angry and racist, then he's simply a giant asshole. Whichever of these is the case, I think the man should be shunned as a performer. Unless he's willing to do a nightclub act wherein the audience gets to hurl pigshit at him, he should be banned from the stage. But a fucking lawsuit? That's ridiculous. These guys were hecklers at a comedy club. The comic they heckled flipped out and said some awful things. This means they should get some money? Fuck no! If they find themselves still unable to move on with their lives, they should wait outside his house and slap the shit out of him. That, I'd understand. This abuse of our legal system makes me want to puke. Why are there ten thousand pending lawsuits aimed at the Borat flick? Because it's made a shitload of money and some greedy people want a piece. Are you honestly telling me that those frat boys' lives have been substantially impacted by this shit? What, now, when they date-rape a sorority girl, she wakes up just enough from her Roofie slumber to make fun of them for looking like idiots? These guys are comedians. You can find them funny or find them repulsive, but their speech is protected by the constitution. You remember that, right? It's that document that George Bush and Co. are trying to get rid of. Again, I agree that telling someone that you're filming them for Kazakhstani television when you're actually going to use the footage in a feature film is ethically shaky. Repeatedly hurling the N-bomb because you weren't funny enough to keep potential hecklers at bay is fucking pathetic. But it doesn't mean that the "victims" of this behavior should be given a winning lottery ticket. These douchebags need to dry their teary eyes, put forth a stiff upper lip and go fuck themselves.
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