[speeder]

Anyone who does not understand the difference between using a racial slur against your own people and another group is just (???)

Pulp Fiction ruin a career? How so? Tarantino is in love w/ the word nigger, but let's face it; he's a juvenile talent to the core. I do not really equate this "comedy" routine w/ Tarantino, though, more like just a meltdown of a really unstable entertainer. Is he a racist? Who knows; sure isn't very smart or funny. That audience member cut him to the quick w/ the *has-been* remarks, a pro comic is never supposed to let a heckler get the better of him like that.

I used to go see a lot of stand-up and spoken word performance in L.A. and have known a lot of comics over the years. Shock is definitely a big part of comedy and sometimes we laugh hard when we know it's a little wrong, but I cannot imagine how this tirade could have "worked", he was just losing it on an ostensibly rude audience member or two who talked through his routine. The Laugh Factory normally has a pretty black audience, he must have gone in there w/ a chip on his shoulder about the way that room treats his boring act. Pretty freaking sad, really....