Hasbeen trend

When your ratings go low, dig deeper. Mel Gibson -- drunken rage wrecks car and spouts anti-semetic comments. Michael Richards, spouts racially offensive comments.

Both attempt to apologize with their fingers crossed, not for good luck, but to counter their lies. "Gosh. I didn't mean it. I really don't have those feelings ...", blah, blah, blah.

Unfortunately the right person wasn't around the Laugh Factory to offer Michael a "drink from the fire hose"+, which would have suited him very well.


+ allusion to his role in UHF, where the kids' program had a highly-charged host who let a kid "drink from the fire hose" sending the kid flying from the hose to the wall.

Howard beamed

Defendant Howard was in court being charged with multiple murder. During arraignment, family members of the victims got by the police and started punching him. They got in quite a few punches. In the end, there were three arrested for assault. There appeared to be about twelve others who would have jumped in and punched Howard too, but the cops protected him. I think clearly, if the case goes sour, they can simply release him, letting the victims' families know well in advance of where and when so they can help him out.


"Somebody oought to help him out."
"That's what we did; we helped him out."+

+ Dave Chappelle's "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" on Rick James, where Rick is punched because he intentionally ground mud and dirt into a suede sofa belonging to Eddie Murphy.