[VaSteve]

Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Upodate: The two African American citizens who were involved in this issue were on the Today show this morning. Apparently they have hired a lawyer who is "challenging" Richards to meet with the two men in front of a retired judge and see if Richards thinks he owes these two money or not. She says that once he sees the trauma he caused he will feel compelled to given them money.

Lauer asked her what her legal recourse was if Richards refused and she dodged the question.

My opinion is that either there is no case here since it was verbal abuse or (more likely) on the ticket to the Laugh Factory there is some sort of disclaimer that says you cannot sue the performer or the comedy club if you are insulted by the performance.

Course leave it to a lawyer to try and squeeze some cash out of any situation.

They should get two tickets to the laugh factory to see a repeat of Michael Richards' act. (He actually performed the next night).

I watched the tape. I was expecting to see something funny, but it wasn't. It was more like a 4 year old hurling the same insult over and over again. To see how to really deal with hecklers, do a search on Bill Burr in Philadelphia who launches a 10 minute tirade against the city and actually turns them around.

As far as the term MR used....hmmm, I'm not qualified to say if it hurts *me* or not, but I do notice a lot of people use it mostly in comedy and music (listen to Snoop or Patrice O'Neal...all the time). Is it still offensive in 2006? I don't know... Maybe if you mean it... probbaly definitely to older folks...but perhaps it's still "marketed" as still offensive as hell or else it would lose it's sting when someone else uses it.