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To: John Carragher who wrote (7728)	11/29/2006 2:39:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12246

John, it looked very controlled to me. He would do a racist rant, then break off to discuss what he'd said with the audience. Then, launch another one. Then say something else in a highly reasonable way. Then launch again. Then calmly say "Those words, those words, those words". He got the guy going in the way he seemed to want to do. Lucky for Kramer that the guy was racist in return or he would have just looked absurd. If the guy had said, "Oh sorry old chap. Yes, we were talking a bit while ordering drinks. But really, don't you think that you are a bit hideous talking about putting us upside down with cutlery in our derriere", Kramer wouldn't have pulled off his Borat trick. But he did and the guy responded in kind with "F-ing cracker-ass mudder-fudder white boy", which sounded very, very racist to me. I was mortified and need money to regain my equilibrium. Or is it only the melanin-rich who can be mortified by racism? I'd better watch it again to see if I'm still mortified. I have noticed that some comedians are not short of anger and seem to me to use the humour to offset the anger - defuse it and make it funny. Those with a more phlegmatic nature don't bother with humour as they don't need to defuse the anger then feel. That's my theory anyway. Mqurice