Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Saturday, February 23, 2019
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
Kathy Griffin Blows It Again
Kathy Griffin Drops Racial Rant, Says Black Man Who Didn’t Attack Trump Is a ‘P******’
Inasmuch as any individual can be rehabilitated from holding up the bloodied, effigial head of the president, I think Kathy Griffin may be going about it the wrong way.
Here’s a quick recap. First there was the “sorry, but can’t you guys take a joke?” initial apology. Then there was the tearful, inchoate press conference. Then she began the “Laugh Your Head Off” tour (I’m assuming the only offensive thing wasn’t the name, although it was probably the funniest and most knowing).
As that tour neared the end of its first leg, Griffin posted a morose video of herself complaining that she was the victim of a Hollywood “blacklist,” all from the confines of what looked like an exceedingly expensive hotel.
Later, during an appearance on “The View,” she retracted her apology to the president and his family (this is not an uncommon feature of such Trump-related amendes honorable). And now, she’s back at full bore, telling a black comedian who won’t go after the president that he’s a “p—-.”
“I do feel like this is such an anxiety-ridden time for everyone that there is a thirst for all kinds of comedy,” Griffin said in an interview with USA Today.
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“And look, if you want to not hear about Trump at all, go see Kevin Hart. He doesn’t even mention Trump. I personally think that’s a p—- move because he’s a black man. But I guess he’s selling more tickets than I ever will.”
Listen up, black comedians. A white woman is about to tell you what every comedian of color should be doing with their routines, which is clearly not at all racist.
You listen and you listen good, lest you be labeled cowardly by a woman.
While USA Today didn’t print the expletive, the newspaper confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that was the word that Griffin used.
Do you think Kathy Griffin’s remark was racist?
As for why Griffin may have gone after Hart, he seemed to take a mild shot at her last year as the controversy unfolded.
“You’re just looking at comics being comics. We always take risks, but sometimes it can be distasteful,” Hart said during an appearance on “The View.”
During the interview, Griffin also seemed to imply the fake beheading put her in the company of people like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
“One of the things that’s great about being a comedian is you really do get to be a whistle-blower. I like to do it through comedy,” Griffin said.
“People love to hear these stories, so I’m not going to walk away from it.”
A “whistle-blower?” What you do is stand on stage for 90 minutes and bravely repeat to the audience their prejudices in a humorous form. I’m genuinely curious how that counts as whistle-blowing.
Of course, I’m genuinely curious how Griffin more or less has some semblance of a career back roughly a year after she seemed to incite the beheading of the president. Perhaps that was an example of whistle-blowing?
Well, whatever. If the assassination of the president wasn’t enough to sustain the media’s attention, perhaps her racist patronization of African-American comics will be.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
It's Ok To Mock Black People By Liberals--Not Conservatives
Watch: Kimmel Used Blackface, Mocked Black Man But Still Has ABC Show
Roseanne Barr is out of a job — as well she should be. What she had to say about Valerie Jarrett was insensitive at best and beyond disgusting at worst. Apologizing was the very least she could do.
However, one thing rang clear after Barr’s firing — namely, the media’s hypocrisy when it comes to Jimmy Kimmel.
Kimmel is one of the most celebrated men in late night, in part because he’s very much a member of the liberal elite. He says what they think, and says it from one of the biggest stages in Hollywood. He says it on his nightly monologues. He says it during interviews.
Yet, Kimmel has a very different past — one that he’s never apologized for. Before he landed his late-night gig, he was one of the hosts and people behind “The Man Show,” a turn-of-the-millennium program that hasn’t aged well in the era of #MeToo and political correctness.
We’ve highlighted some of Kimmel’s other cringe-inducing antics before, but on this occasion, we’d like to point out yet another skit — this one done in blackface — which he’s never been held to account for.
The skit involved Karl Malone, then a player for the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
Malone was known to speak his mind on a number of subjects, often without a filter, and that provided the media with a but of humor.
However, this bizarre sketch involving Malone and what he believes about aliens — and namely, where they probe — goes a bit too far in mocking not only Malone but also his manner of speaking in a way that could very obviously be considered racist.
Has Kimmel apologized for it, though? Of course not, even though it’s minstrelsy through and through.
Take a look:
Yes, “white people being deducted by alien” and “that’s a d— thing.” Hilarious. And by hilarious, I mean racist.
Do you think Jimmy Kimmel should apologize for this skit?
Kimmel, by the way, gets paid $15 million a year, according to CNBC. Yet, he hasn’t apologized for this kind of thing, or for any of the sexual harassment he engaged in on the old show.
In fact, it’s not like he’s stopped this kind of behavior. Earlier this year he was forced to apologize after using homophobic remarks in a debate against Sean Hannity on Twitter.
At no time did Kimmel face any official censure for any of this. ABC didn’t suspend him or dock his pay, despite the fact that what he did was pretty awful and seemingly worthy of an official response.
So while Barr was vilified for her remark — perhaps deservedly so — Kimmel got off scot-free. It just goes to show that in Hollywood, what you do isn’t as important as what your politics are.
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