Tuesday, November 21, 2006

 

Kramer versus Kramer




Better to break laws than taboos. There is no law against having sex with your grandmother or your great aunt but if you do and are caught you will never swim back from the tidal pool of social ostracism to the mainstream of an intolerant society.
Michael Richards ain’t funny in a quick witted way, he was a body language pratfall Seinfield guy, a program that most black people found totally unfunny. And so “Kramer” apologizes via satellite on Letterman for calling black Hecklers and Jecklers "niggers" but most black people I know hate Letterman also because basically he ain’t funny either and if Letterman ever did standup in a club with black people in the audience he would get “housed.”
Richard Pryor’s first stand up on the tonight show Carson invited him to the couch.
”So Richard, is that what your friends call you Richard?”
“No, mostly they just call me skinny Nigger, ”Pryor said, and Carson couldn’t speak for the next minute.
Anthropologists refer to joking relationships which are earned over time. They push the taboos but no one is serious about it.But 'taboo is but a sin away' and if you use the word perky you had better be damned sure the 15 year old girl knows you're talking about personality.
The team Doctor of the Oakland Raiders in the early eighties once came onto the field to attend to a hurt player. ‘Get up nigger, you ain’t hurt, ’he said to the defensive back. A Kansas City player standing nearby took offense-or was it defense, it was reported, followed by the requisite back tracking apologies.
The doctor was inside a joking relationship with his players, the humor is in walking the line, but once perceived as over, you can’t explain your way back, because the people who get it, get it immediately, and the others don’t want to get it.
I have stood up in front of lots of audiences. I always perceived the occasion as an opportunity for a career ending comment. My philosophy was “I stand behind nothing I say but I’ll stand it front of it all.” I’d rather lose all future opportunities to “rock the mic” then to snivel and apologize and attempt to explain my entire life of understanding, tolerance and friendship to a bunch of anonymous assholes.
“Kramer” ain’t never getting back, not never, not ever. The game is not fair because they get to heckle you but you don’t get to throw daggers back at them. It’s a matter of losing control and poor taste I think.
Let’s say you’re telling a joke to a crowd and a fat woman eating a cheese steak begins to heckle you in an insulting and nasty way. You look out and instantly see vulnerability and you strike.
“I see the Momma Cass Cheese steak Special is on the menu. Looks like that bitch was baptized at Sea World! When she was in high school the principal walked by and said, ”Hey break it up! She was the only person in group therapy and could only get in touch with her inner self using the roaming feature on her cell phone.”
Trust me if you ain’t ready to play back you will be a road kill on the highway to the stars.
Racist insults are not against the law but they are taboo and only freaks fly publically in the face of cultural taboos which is why violators must go away and stay away. Like my gradmother Rose said,"First cousins don't have deformed children because of genetics, they have deformed children because they are cultural freak shows. LIke when you look at cousin Janet what do you see? I rest my 20 pound purse."

Freddogg

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