everyone makes mistakes.

wow, it's really really
strange
how the current Michael Richards getting in trouble for his racist comments controversy reminds me a lot of how Joey Leung got in trouble for secretly dating Queenie incident last yr...also almost around the same time! joey got caught kissing queenie in a car around October 2005. michael just got in trouble on the night of nov. 17.

and 4 both of them, a famous friend of theirs (though hacken is much much closer friends with joey than jerry is with michael. jerry and michael just worked together 9 yrs, but i don't think they keep in contact after the show ended in 1998. but hacken and joey had been close friends for around 15 yrs in 2005) went on a show and helped them out by saying good things about them. and they both apologized on the show (though joey's was by a phone call, and i think that was also a couple days after the incident).

in both cases, there was an event coming up that their bad press could affect. in michael's case, i think the Seinfeld season 7 DVD is going to be sold soon. in joey's case, he was supposed to be one of the hosts for the TVB 38th Anniversary show. but he was still able to host the show. i think being teased and yelled at on that show by the other hosts and in general, all he went through when he was being followed by reporters everywhere....all that stuff...he was punished enough. and now, a year later, no one really remembers the incident anymore, and he has been working for tvb...all is ok again.

i was really mad at joey for cheating on margaret. but seeing how hacken said everyone should give him another chance (just like jerry said about michael), and he really seems sorry about what he did...so i've forgiven him since last yr.

but what michael did was a totally different matter....i feel sorry 4 him, cuz i really don't think he is a racist. from what i know about him, which is not much, but still....he is a very focused performer, and if ppl R doing something that distracts him, he will go CRAZY. and comedians in general curse all the time, so....maybe he was already having a really bad day...

those 2 ppl he cursed at are planning to sue him.

PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES. please give him another chance!