Jon Lovitz recently signed a rather Faustian contract with Jamie Masada, the owner of the Laugh Factory comedy club that will require Lovitz to appear on stage at the Los Angeles club every Wednesday for the rest of his life. In addition, Lovitz will write a blog for the Laugh Factory in which he'll offer advice to young comedians.
Really? The rest of his life? That seems so depressing. Will he be bound by his contract to simply sit on the stage in a wheelchair for a twenty-minute set that consists of nothing more than drooling and an occasional story about wars he never actually fought in?
If you've been following the Michael Richards apology tour, you know that the
actor made an appearance on the Reverend Jesse Jackson's
Keep Hope Alive radio program in which he claimed to be "shattered" by his own remarks. That wasn't good enough for the Rev. The day after Richards' appearance,
Jackson called for a boycott of the recent seventh season
Seinfeld DVD release to punish the actor where it really hurts - the pocketbook.
How boycotting the
Seinfeld DVD set would actually hurt Richards is beyond me. Between syndication points and a series-run as Kramer, I think Richards is pretty set financially. As a symbolic act or even one motivated by publicity, I suppose a boycott makes a bit more sense -- but not much seeing as Richards' words were spewed without the consent of the entire cast and crew of
Seinfeld. (I've linked to it in
the past, but if you want a better reason to hold
Seinfeld suspect, check out hip-hop artist
Danny Hoch's monologue about his scheduled appearance on the show.)
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