I’ve been hearing about the alleged “Seinfeld Curse” for years now, but I never really paid it any mind, since all of those folks are rich. Despite the fact that Elaine is the only person from the show consistently working right now, I doubt any of them are missing any meals. So they’re not really cursed. Just…unable to adapt or reinvent themselves.
I had to give the curse theory a second thought today though. I just heard on the news that Michael Richards, aka Cosmo Kramer, dropped the “N” bomb while being heckled by audience members at a stand up comedy show.
By the “N” bomb, I mean the word “n*gger”. Not “n*gga” with an “a”, but “n*gger” with an “er”. For some reason, more and more white folks have been getting away with using the “a” version now. I’m still not comfortable with that, but since a lot of black folks are calling themselves “n*gga”, one can get only so mad at simple minded white people trying to mimic what they see black people do to each other without taking some responsiblity for it. That’s the price you n*ggas have to pay for saying it so much. Don’t blame hip-hop either. Lil’ Wayne was not your elementary school English teacher.
Back to the topic at hand. Upon getting booed and heckled while onstage, Kramer allegedly said “n*gger” and “50 years ago, you’d be hanging from a tree” or something along those lines to somebody in the audience. It’s pretty safe to say that this was not a taping of “Def Comedy Jam” or “Comic View”. If it were, I’d probably be writing Kramer’s obituary right about now instead of just making fun of his ignorant racist comments.
Richards must be taking this “Curse of Seinfeld” thing pretty hard. To go from one of the most famous and highly paid people on sitcom television, to getting booed offstage and turning into the stand up comedy version of the Soup Nazi…That’s a pretty steep fall from grace.
So today, I am giving out the Pookie Award for Crackhead Excellence to Michael “Cosmo Kramer” Richards, for sticking a nail in the coffin of what was left of his career. I hope your daugher gets pregnant by Flavor Flav. Also, I hope Lil Jon moves in next door to you and keeps you awake every night yelling “YEEEAAAAAAAAAH!” into a megaphone.
Oh yeah. I also hope that you find out your wife once slept with Wilt Chamberlain.
Now, time for a public service announcement.
To all people who work in the service industry: If you want someone to give you a tip, you must first do your job in a competent, timely manner. I say this, because I almost had to throw a delivery man from Eastern Carryout down the stairs yesterday after he asked me for a tip. Normally, I would have just given one, but this guy arrived almost an hour and twenty minutes after I called, my food was cold, and as I found out later, he put the wrong drinks in the bag. Maybe I’m just a jackass, but in my mind, that’s more than enough reason to tell someone to get the hell off my porch and beat it after getting my food.
Well, the guy who delivered my food didn’t feel that way. I asked him for my change, and he said “No tip? I have to put gas in the car.”
So I said, “You took over an hour to get here, and the resturant is 15 minutes away WALKING!” I decided to toss him a dollar and shut the door in his face, but as soon as I saw that one of the drinks was wrong, I immediately regretted even giving him that one extra dollar. I started to call the resturant, since this is the 3rd time they have taken their sweet time bringing food over to my place. Instead, I just decided to never eat there again and blow up their spot via the blog. So to everyone: DO NOT order from Eastern Carryout on New Hampshire Avenue in the Silver Spring area. If you do, please make sure to NOT tip the 40something Asian delivery man. If he says something about it, tell him that Leon said “Go to Hell.” Thank you, loyal readers. I trust that you will do the right thing!
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no comment. i’m pretty sure now that’s why they weren’t any black on the show. EVER.
wait… that episode where they had the Nigerian running the New York city marathon.
As far as the carry-out food.
Yeah. no comment on that either.
I swear those Carry out people can be such ASSholes sometimes. I once ordered food and they wouldn’t get out of their car and come on my porch, I had to walk to the car and give him the money….
P.S. Try ordering from Golden House next time…lol.
Thanks for the update I wouldn’t have believed it if you had not have provided the link. Even the white folks up in here are shaking their heads!!!
That’s a damn shame that boy lost his mind like that. I mean come on you’re a comedian, people are going to have mixed reactions to your show. That’s no reason to go off the deep end and start calling niggas, niggers…lol
About the carry out, yeah Eastern’s suck ass! But, on the subject of tipping I am a FIRM believer in giving tips, even when the service is not all that, I still tip.
I don’t think Richards put a nail in his career coffin because blacks don’t control Hollywood. However, if his comments were anti-Semetic then he would be a goner. A few months or years from now, with the right role this whole episode will be forgotten.
Actually, I thank Richards for being so honest because what he says is on the minds of many non-black folk. Racism is alive and kickin’ in 2006 and just because a black person “made it” don’t mean dog sh*&! You don’t think those white corporate execs don’t call Jay-Z the N-word? Please!!!
Thank God I was never into Seinfeld and never even wasted my money buying that crap on DVD.
As for take out dude, you shouldn’t have gave him a dime.
damn damn damn…i wrote a long ass comment and it got deleted when i logged into my beta blogger…im so mad i switched over!!!grrr anyways…
kramer-speachless
on tips- i have been bitched at over a tip…i wanted to spit on dude
I don’t even have the words to express how I feel about Kramer. He’s just a reminder of how they really feel about us.
About the delivery serivce, I only give tips when I get good service, I wouldn’t have given that guy jack! Everyone wants a tip today, everytime I get some coffee or Jamba Juice, etc. I have to have some tip jar in my face. Shoot I’m about to set up a tip jar on my desk. I accept Paypal too!
Kramer just said what he normally says when not in the company of darkies and/or liberal whites.
As for the delivery guy, you do know you can ruin their business by telling your readers not to go there. I’m reading this book called The Tipping Point. One of the things the author talks about how word of mouth can make or break and idea, a business, or even someone.
Yo! It looks like Kramer lost it there. The people he was yellin at might have been wrong for talkin during his show, but a comedian should know how to come back better than that. We all know that people are still racists but he just put it out there for them. He gets the “Mark Furman” award this year for sure.
I feel ya on the tip thing.
this has nothing to do with your post, but i was curious have you upsated to the new blogger?
I wanted to know what it does to the posts if it deletes them and what the benefits are..
sialor moon!
“Lil’ Wayne was not your elementary school English teacher.”
Um, I’m pretty sure Lil Wayne IS in fact the English teacher at Bertie Backus Elementary School (AKA Dirty Bertie) on South Dakota Ave, NE. You ever meet those kids?
You have a point though, I think we have made it quite easy for white folks to “slip up” and drop the N-bomb nowadays. If anyone should know better, WE should. How do we look expecting them to respect us more than we do? Nonetheless, Kramer is an asshole.
Am I the only one who feels like I shouldn’t tip the carry-out drivers? I do it anyway, but I also ignorantly assume that because the drivers are always Asian, that they own the store in the first place and the tip is overkill. Who would hire a 50 year-old Asi……uh, let me stop there.
Did anyone see Letterman last nite? Kramer used Seinfeld to get a spot on the show to “apologize” for the comments. He said some ish about soul searching and wishing he could find the people so he could tell them that he’s sorry.
That goes to show you what some of America’s “favorite” celebs are really thinking…
Actualy dee-lish, that Kenyan marathoner wasnt the only black on the show. Although they screwed him over because Jerry set the alarm clock wrong and he was late for the race. Cosmo Kramer consulted a lawyer on several instinces during the run of the show and that dude was black.
I found it funny that last night Mr. Richards took the time to explain that he wasnt a racist. I thought to myself that geez if he is not then who in the hell is?
@ woodrow.
yeah the laywer Jackie Childs.
i remeber now.
Kramer is still a LOSERABAGS though.
yeah…Michael Richards is a real life example of when keepin it real goes wrong… he should have just kept his mouth shut but good thing he didn’t as he shows his real character.
as for bad service…I believe the same thing..I went out to lunch with my friend once while we were at work, we had the worst servers so he didn’t get a tip and sad thing he let him keep the 6 cents for change but I felt like I should have ask for that back as that bastard didn’t even deserve that.
ITs the thing that even sports radio is talking bout…it was on since i came in to work @ 7 and left @ 4 they talked about his ‘career suicide” and to top it off everybody saying he’s not even funny. Its hard for an actor to become a stand up comedian and thats his weakness and a seasoned comic woulda known how to handle hecklers.Sucks to be him
Thats why I go get my food. I would rather waste gas than give out a tip. U are doing your job, u aint going out of your way or doing anything extra. U are a DRIVER. I work hard for my money and i dont just like to give it away.
Waldorf Eastern is nice, friendly personable, 20 minutes through the traffic, if not they usually warn me theyre gonna be a bit, dont lump all the eastern’s in on glob, my carryout is run by hard working peeps just making a living and they do it well, best wishes michael bridlepath