{"id":144,"date":"2007-10-24T07:24:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/1193228664687.html"},"modified":"2007-10-24T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T12:24:24","slug":"blogentry-halle-berry-to-convert-to-judaismfor-the-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Halle Berry To Convert To Judaism&#8230;.for the jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page straight out of a Seinfeld episode, <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.shotsdaily.com\/events\/halle_berry_apologizes_for_jewish_slur.php&#034;>Halle Berry offered a rather telling apology<\/a> for a &#034;Jewish slur&#034; she said on the Tonight Show.  They were doing one of those bits where they take pictures of her and use a computer to distort them, and when she came to one with a big nose she said &#034;And this one is my Jewish cousin.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>Yikes.  10 years ago we wouldn&#039;t have called that Jewish slur, we would have just called it a bad joke.  <\/p>\n<p\/>20 years ago, Don Rickles would have said the exact same thing and followed it up with &#034;Just kidding, I love the Jews, my agent is Jewish&#034; and he would have killed.<\/p>\n<p\/>These days the audience is silent, the Tonight Show producers edit out the segment, and the star offers an apology the next day.<\/p>\n<p\/>The funny thing about her apology, though, is that she claims she was simply repeating what had been said backstage by &#034;the three Jewish girls that work for me.&#034;  So Ms. Berry, in repeating the joke, forgot one of the cardinal rules of the ethnic joke &#8211; you can only tell jokes about the race\/ethnicity\/sexual orientation\/religion that you personally belong to.  Because if you&#039;re not, then you must have meant it in an offensive manner, you see.  (Note sarcasm).<\/p>\n<p\/>In other words, she could have told a black joke and the audience would have laughed.  Or she could have had her people send out a press release stating that she&#039;s converting to Judaism.  Both would have been ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a page straight out of a Seinfeld episode, Halle Berry offered a rather telling apology for a &#034;Jewish slur&#034; she said on the Tonight Show. They were doing one of those bits where they take pictures of her and use a computer to distort them, and when she came to one with a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}