The nu-ILX Michael Richards thread: Can you sue a comedian for ranting at you?

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I was thinking of posting on the RealILX thread and then I thought - no leave it - but then I saw this...
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/22/not-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank/
And wondered whether there was a precendent for it? And what was the legal position? And why would a retired judge be involved? So many questions I know...

― Ned Trifle, Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I know you probably had the best of intentions but seriously if I see or hear anything referring to Michael Richards and/or racism and/or stand-up comedy for that matter I'm setting the fucking chimps loose.

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

There should be an "again" in there somewhere but I am bitter and have no admin to flex here.

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"omnipresent publicity hound"

i love that.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

why would you click on a thread with the words Michael Richards in it if you never want to read about him again?

― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe he was wondering if he was going to hold out kuyt and bellamy

http://www.4thegame.com/media/00/03/16/micahrichardsprofile.jpg

― ricky doncaster, Friday, 24 November 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link

THAT'S UNCALLED FOR!

― grady (grady), Friday, 24 November 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Redneck uncle at Thanksgiving: "I don't get what the big deal is -- he was just calling a spade a spade."

Later: "If anything, he'll get a million dollars from this. I sure as hell hadn't heard of him before."

Rest of family: "Sure you have, he was on Seinfeld."

Uncle: "Aw, I don't watch that shit. That Seinfeld is an idiot."

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 26 November 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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There should be an "again" in there somewhere but I am bitter and have no admin to flex here.

"I know you probably had the best of intentions but seriously if I see or hear anything referring to Michael Richards and/or racism and/or stand-up comedy for that matter I'm setting the fucking chimps loose. Again."

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 26 November 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm setting the loose chimps fucking.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 November 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Redneck uncle at Thanksgiving: "I don't get what the big deal is -- he was just calling a spade a spade."

hahahah redneck soon-to-be-step-uncle (for lack of better term) in drunken rant at thanksgiving: "The white male is the minority in this country now"

i had to leave the room.

Thanksgiving: the time for discovering wonderful things about your extended family!

― latebloomer, Monday, 27 November 2006 05:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"I don't get what the big deal is -- he was just calling a spade a spade."

omg I thought my Texas redneck family was bad. This is exactly the kind of thing my mother would say.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My grandfather once slipped out with the n-word when he was talking to me. He corrected himself to "colored guy."

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.billbell.com/images/mild-web.jpg

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 27 November 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

when talking about the war my aunt once said 'sand-n*gger' and seemed genuinely confused when I told her that was the most racist thing I had ever heard.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"The point is that Towel Head and Camel Jockey are perfectly good substitutes."

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 08:20 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF, is it "my family is more racist than your family" day on ILX???

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes it is! My uncle used the term "sand-n*gger" earlier in the day, actually, at which point I had to get up and join my uncle's son and his boyfriend on the patio.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh no you had to hang out with teh gayz? When will the madness cease!

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

j/k obv, towel head

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a Korean friend in high school who, upon learning my Lebanese descent, decided he needed to call me "camel jockie" etc etc type of names, which was kind of ridiculous, since Lebanon isn't exactly in the desert. Or dessert. Also because the other 3/4 of me is not Lebanese.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Naderlicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

inevitable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuE-ddgCLgU

― will(iam), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

My uncle was teasing my Australian wife, asking her what crimes her penal ancestors committed. I tried to shut him up by telling her, "It's okay. Our ancestors apprehended runaway slaves."

Didn't shut him up.

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm faintly related to Jean Lafitte, who's a kind of folk hero in Louisiana, despite having made his fortune dealing in contraband slaves.

WTF, is it "my family is more racist than your family" day on ILX???

Yes.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://captainoftheussinevitable.ytmnsfw.com/

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

My uncle was teasing my Australian wife, asking her what crimes her penal ancestors committed. I tried to shut him up by telling her, "It's okay. Our ancestors apprehended runaway slaves."
Didn't shut him up.

lolz.

my family is proud of the fact that our aussie bloodline began with an ancestor stealing a loaf of bread to feed her starving family.

― grady (grady), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(I don't even know what my ancestors did or didn't do. I'm pretty sure the Russian Jew had clean hands, slavewise, but I'm not sure about those fur traders.)

― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 27 November 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVt6eoKB9sw&eurl=

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://captainoftheussinevitable.ytmnsfw.com/

something very consolidated about that track.

― stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

My family merely enjoyed a moment of quiet, shared liberal indignation over the Richards outburst before moving on to other topics.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

See, all the folks in my family who sound like y'all's relations are dead.

Jesse Jax, a few other lib-fascists call for media to "ban" the N-word (Rev Red Light sez it's "unprotected" by the First Amendment):

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/27/people_crusades/main2211059.shtml

Sounds like time for ILX lib-racist fave Quentin Tarantino to switch to Eric Rohmer-style dialogue.

― Dr M, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Unfortunately the lawsuit and the grandstanding reverends are going to end up overshadowing the wrong done by Richards. I wish they would just issue a brief statement and move on - they'd actually get much more public sympathy that way.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah but they wouldn't get any money.

this kramer bullshit didn't come up once at my thanksgiving, so proud.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

my mother would probably say things like:
"Seinfeld? never eard of it."
"American rubbish then"
"Nothing will ever beat Only Fools an 'orses!"

― Ste, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Roger Lloyd Pack unleashing a torrent of racial abuse at an innocent heckler = money.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, MOST of our Thanksgiving was spent discussing a perennial favorite topic: "OMG, antisemitism is everywhere!"

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

my thanksgiving was spent discussing all the bargains my m-i-l finds at the px. zzz

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://zine.nationallampoon.com/index.php?option=com_jambozine&layout=article&view=page&aid=247&Itemid=32

WIN

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF, is it "my family is more racist than your family" day on ILX???

I heard my grandpops call someone a "cracker" once. I win thread, obv.

― Rodney, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link

This deliberate confusing of Kramer and Richards has lead to "the real Kramer" getting hatemail.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/11/23/2460151.html

― ned trifle, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

During the disco era, Kenny Kramer came up with a piece of electronic jewelry that apparently did so well, it put him in the black for some time.

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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