Halle Berry Apologizes For Edited Anti-Semitic Joke

[gatorboy]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10232007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm

October 23, 2007 -- HALLE Berry was apologizing last night after she'd made an apparent anti-Semitic joke while taping "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Friday afternoon.

The Oscar-winning star, on the show to promote her movie "Things We Lost in the Fire," was showing Leno and his audience images of herself on her computer using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.

According to one audience member, "She introduced the first photo by saying, 'Here's where I look like my Jewish cousin!' - it was a picture of her with a huge, distorted nose. No one laughed, and Jay nervously said, 'I'm glad you said that and not me.' When the show aired, they cut out her 'Jewish' comment and added a laugh track to the bit."

Another guest in the audience told us, "If you watch the clip, you can see Halle saying the word 'Jewish,' though obviously there is no audio. NBC covered her a - -. Ms. Berry should know how unbelievably inappropriate her comment was . . . She should be ashamed of herself."

Berry, 41, who sounded like she was near tears, told Page Six last night: "I so didn't mean to offend anybody - and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did."

[Midlodemocrat]

1. "after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive"

What a dumbass.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. Self-Delete. nt

[cali]

3. I didn't know she was Jewish,

but I tend to agree that it wasn't done maliciously- just stupidly.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. I just self-deleted it. I took the word of another DUer from a post a few

weeks ago, did the research and it doesn't seem she is Jewish. It doesn't matter though, I don't think she did it maliciously either.

[gatorboy]

5. Haven't heard that one.

I looked and couldn't find any info on her being jewish. :shrug:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Please see my now self-deleted post! nt

[Cha]

6. Halle's mother is Jewish, huh?

I'm, no doubt, sure she didn't say it in meaness..we can't say anything anymore because we might offend someone. What's wrong with "big noses" is what I wanna know..does anyone remember "the Schnozzola)" Jimmy Durante? Italian..oh well.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Please see my post #4. I made a mistake. Sorry. nt

[Cha]

11. That's okay...It doesn't matter to

me..I don't get so friggin uptight about things like..I thought maybe she was and so what if she is or isn't..that's my query?

[cali]

9. What's wrong with it?

Do you feel the same way about comments about blacks supposedly all having big lips?

[Cha]

10. Big Deal, I have big lips, too.

Don't try to make some outta this.

[cali]

12. I gather you didn't care to answer the question

Let me just put this simply: Stereotyping people by ethnicity just sucks.

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[cali]

14. How sad that you

stereotype. Sadder still that you defend it and claim it's looking at individuals.

[Cha]

15. Don't cry any tears

for me, cali.

[Booster]

16. Who among us has not made a similar stupid remark.

Cut the lady some slack.

[cali]

19. I have never in my life mad a similar comment. n/t

[Booster]

20. Is that you, Mark Furman? Just kidding. Good for you though.

[gatorboy]

21. You've got me curious, though.

What remarks have you made?

[Booster]

22. Oh, right. Like I'm gonna answer that question.

[NorthernSpy]

17. Halle Berry had a nose job years ago, by the way...

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/000903.html

http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/005386.html

[FredScuttle]

18. Hey, she looks just like Raymond Luxury-Yacht!

Boy, ain't racial stereotypes fun? :sarcasm:

[regnaD kciN]

23. So, Jews don't "make her feeeeeel goooood"...?

:evilgrin:

[moez]

24. It'll be "OK" because it was Halle

If it was some less popular, fat pig she'd have been crucified....