OH, laughing out loud. Or, maybe my sense of humor is weird, but, this sort of tickles my funniest of bones. I’ve discussed Michael Richard’s hate speech on this site with a very serious analysis, but, of course, the natural compliment to intellectualism is humor: as humor is, undoubtedly, a high-level form of intelligence.

One thing that really cracks me up is when the victim (so-to-speak) flips the script on the bigot. We recently saw this with Senator George Allen who famously referred to a dark-skinned American, S.R. Sidarth, as macaca in August of this year. Macaca is a type of monkey, so, you know, it’s not a very nice thing to say to a dark-skinned fellow ….. well, soon enough, I noticed scores of web writers were referring to Senator George Allen as Macaca Allen, and, that’s just the sort of thing that cracks me up good and proper.

I love that sort of linguistic script-flip. I love using humor to spin things about, and, in the case of Senator Allen, he was spun right out of his job, and, that’s a beautiful thing. That gives me renewed hope in the future of America! Truly.

So, with that said, here’s the Michael Richards interview footage, which, obviously is a joke, and, which I find funny.

I know you’re thinking, “Katie, can’t you just paste the damn video in without the long-winded preamble.” But, you know, that’s just the sort of girl I am… oh, the ridiculousness of being an academic… but, it is fun! Here you go:

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