It seems Halle Berry likes to tell a Jewish joke every now and again. While apearing on the Tonight Show w/ Jay leno, Berry could not pass up the oppertunity make a racially charged remark, which seems to be in vouge in Hollywood these days.
Berry, who’s out promoting the unfortunately titled, Things We Lost in the Fire was showing off how she spends her free time, which strangely involves warping her perfect features with Mac’s Photo Booth program (hmmm, could this have been a product plug gone awry, as well?).
“The machine morphs your face to look like all these silly other people,” she explained. “And whenever I’m feeling really down about the world I do this and crack myself up.”
Halle then proceeded to point out a pic that featured her with a schnoz that would make W.C Fields wince in sympathy, and she opined that she looked like “my Jewish cousin.”
After the comment, Leno said he was glad it was her and not him would made the comment. NBC ended up editing the footage before it was shown to the public. People need to be able to laugh at themselves and not take everything so serious. Halle shouldn’t have told the joke knowing Americans would be up in arms over the comment, but it wasn’t really all that bad. Lighten up America.
On a side note, I thinks it b*llsh*t for NBC to edit out the comment before the show was aired. She should have to deal with the consequences of her actions/comments. W/O the good ol world wide web, society would ever have found out about the comment. Score 1 for the web.
Original Article: MSN Entertainment
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Could we get a remake of Swordfish?