Comedy Club Owner: Jackson Should Pay Fine for N-Word
After Michael Richards stunned nightclub audiences by shouting the N-word at black people in the audience, the Laugh Factory imposed a $50 fine on any comic who uses the racial epithet on stage.
Now, club owner Jamie Masada says Jessie Jackson should pay a similar fine. “The man should live up to his own principles,” Masada says. “He approved of the measures we were taking, so he should be subject to the same rules.
It was revealed last week that Jackson used the racial slur during a break in an interview with Fox News in which he criticized Barack Obama. Jackson subsequently apologized.
Richards, who has kept a low profile over the past year, earned a place on the AP/AOL Worst Celebrity Role Models of 2006 – and Jackson may soon be joining him in that dubious honor.
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Comments
Hmmm…who does he suggest will collect this fine? And what should the $50 be used for?
Oh, there’s a charity in LA that promotes racial tolerance . . . that’s were the money goes when comics cross the line. I suppose the money would go there.
Oh, that’s ok then
My first thought was, “don’t they get enough money from those two drink minimums?”