I'll comment on it a little more later, but you'll want to check out what happened. You can see the video of it at TMZ.com. It's pretty raw. He screams...
The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass."
Richards continued, "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger!"
The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger."
One of the men who was the object of Richard's tirade was outraged, shouting back "That's un-f***ing called for, ain't necessary."
After the three-minute tirade, it appears the majority of the audience members got up and left in disgust.
Here's a CNN video of the experience. WARNING: It has some pretty graphic language, so watch with an amount of discretion, please.
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Thanks for the transcript. I couldn't watch the actual thing because I didn't have some AOL plug in.
ReplyDeleteAlways knew something was wrong with Richards. Did you ever see the clip of his reaction when Andy Kaufman pulled a prank in the middle of the SNL sketch?
I really thought he would say he had too much to drink, a la Mel.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't seem so much drunk as purely angry, and it's hard to tell, with the quality of the video that's playing on the internet feeds. It's from a cell, after all.
ReplyDeleteAlso, to go on a tangent for a moment, I think that Jerry Seinfeld did a pretty good thing by putting himself out there, so as not to get any flak from this, because one of the first questions after they were done with Richards would be, "Well, what about Jerry Seinfeld?" Eventually, it would have happened, so I think he deflected any collateral damage very well.