Quote of The Day

Posted on October 23rd, 2007 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Halle Berry, News, Quote of The Day

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Halle Berry is under fire for making some questionable comments on Jay Leno:

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.”

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  • don

    1st biatches…

  • don

    I’d like to thank my mon, dad, my brother and all my fans for allowing me to be first. Above all, id like to that the man upstairs (God) for giving me this opportunity to come 1st. Thanks you, this means a lot to me.

  • meena

    @don

    haha

    well…its 2007 and you can joke about almost everything , but god forbid you use the J word.

  • ;)

    thats mean.

  • ;)

    btw she can’t be racist if she is part Jewish, right???

  • Minneapolis Lady

    She had have said “that’s how I looked like before my nose job.” I think that would have got a lot more laughs.

  • don

    @ meena,

    i had to say that, everytime i post something im like the 66th person or somethin, lol.

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  • LezBeyon-ce

    @ ;)

    if she is part jewish, then that means she looks Jewish EVERYDAY!!! So why would that pic be any different?

    She played herself in the worst way by making that “joke.” She’s lucky that they threw her a bone and edited it out of the show.

  • Shay

    I do not agree with Al Sharpton on everything but he said something on his show that makes so much since. You say something about Jews, it’s a hate crime. You say something about gays it’s a hate crime. You say something about blacks, it’s freedom of speech.

  • LezBeyon-ce

    shanna…

    You need to get your drugs outta here! Nobody, and I mean NO-BAH-DEE cares!!!

  • Mahogany

    lol @ LezBeyon ce

    And to Halle…

    Mazel tov!

    :)

  • http://www.lovingmeansaol.com 1TruDiva w/The PlatinumVocals

    lol @ don!

    Back to Halle–

    I guess she was shouting out her “other side”.

    And a Bar Mitzvah to you too! Or should I say Bat Mitzvah!

  • Setting the Record Straight

    she is half black half jewish. i dont get it.

    i love how people think that Halle Berry is 100% black. her mother is white for gods sake.

  • Setting the Record Straight

    she is half black half jewish. i dont get it.

    i love how people think that Halle Berry is 100% black. her mother is white for gods sake.

    the man who left the family and failed to be a part of her life, was black. marinate on that!

  • Royal

    well if she said I look really black in this picture and they showed her with a massive nose, I bet the audience would have laughed till they peed on thmeselves, yeah I need this society to check themselves.

  • mina

    ooh i wanna see that clip :D

  • Common Sense

    Halle =not in any way Jewish. That’s the problem.

    Lenny Kravitz, Lisa Bonet, hall of famer Rod Carew….all Jews.

    Halle Berry=Pretty girl with big heart and empty head

  • La. Finest

    Cosign with Shay and Tanisha

    But Halle should have thought before she spoke, I know she is not racist or said it to offend anybody.

  • RICKY2009

    I honestly do not believe she thought she was saying anything offensive. She just doesn’t strike me as being very intelligent. If this “joke” was edited out, then it looks as if she may get a pass THIS time.

  • John

    My only comment is Halle is beautyful absolutely Beautyful!!!!!

  • Tasha

    That wasn’t cool. She definitely should have thought before she opened her mouth.

  • kelis

    Black folks have big lips, noses, butts, etc and that is known. Italians and Jews have big noses. Ppl talk about us, but u can’t even fix your mouth to say anything about someone who is Jewish. Umm big freakin deal–I don’t see her comment as racist. Maybe not the smartest thing to say though. And perhaps her mom is Jewish?

  • nahnah

    the man who left the family and failed to be a part of her life, was black. marinate on that!

    __________________________________________

    yeah, it sucks because tamia, faith evans, bob marley, and several others had to deal with an absent white father.

  • LezBeyon-ce

    Well at what point is it okay to say something rude about your own race or not? People are gonna have words to say on both sides no matta what!

    She more classy then this though… and it’s too bad it had to come out like this.

  • Anonymous3

    I am in no way Jewish and I take offense to her showing a distorted picture of herself and likening it to her Jewish cousin….

  • crest

    halle better not piss of the jews in hollywood or she will never work again i dont care how good she looks. she better hurry up and so some movies with some jewish directors and actors where she is slobbing them down

  • nahnah

    Jay nervously said, ‘I’m glad you said that and not me.’

    ___________________________________

    hahahaha! jay leno is hilarious! hahahahahaha!

  • yeah
  • Smartie

    Looking at the pic it doesn’t look like her Jewish cousin. It looks like her before her nose job. Google her Miss Ohio pic from 1986 and compare then to now.

  • RICKY2009

    She’s been profusely apologizing, saying she later realized she could see where “some people may have been offended.” It’s always been my understanding that she’s never had contact with her white family – her mother was disowned for marrying a black man. She says she got the idea for the joke from her three Jewish girls who work for her – they were looking through pictures for the joke segment when one said: “This could be your Jewish cousin.” It sounds like she was set up – she took the bait….

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  • JaliliMaster

    Oh please, Judaism IS NOT A RACE! It is a religion. So if Halle converts to Judaism, I guess it will be OK then, eh? If a white person had said it, it wouldn’t matter much. All this is just white folk trying to make out that “see, a famous hollywood BLACK chick is racist, blsck people can be racist too, whites are not all bad, blah, blah, blah”!

  • Just Sit And Be Pretty

    Oh lawd…don’t let that get out or she’ll never work in Hollywood again!! Y’all know Jew control that industry!! She had a dumb moment.

  • saucefry

    To this day I still don’t understand why you are perceived as a BIGOT if U say anything anti-jewish. People say & do things to Black people everyday (negative) sometimes it’s called to the “carpet” most times it’s not, but if U hate on jews—you are the worst person ever? Tell me the logic in that—-PLEASE

  • The Real Essence 1

    Funny how when she made the nose comment the story say’s “No one laughed”

    Yet, when ole boy who played ‘Kramer’ went on his tirade @ the Laugh Factory in LA he straight started calling folks the N word & the video clearly show some audience memebers laughing & chuckling at first.

    It wasn’t til black audience members got up & started to leave that the whites realized “this ish is going to be trouble” & began heckling him!

  • Is a Ten=)

    I swear she needs to sit down somewhere! She is only pregnant for publicity-because if not that movie would surely bomb-Its the worse ever!!!

  • Anonymous3

    tell that to the Jewish community (it’s only a religion)…that is one case where the religion is a way a life and almost becomes a race….although we know that Jews come in all shapes and sizes, blondes, red heads, partrician noses, brown blue eyes…etc…and the occasional convert ala Sammy Davis Jr.

  • RICKY2009

    The jews in Africa (approximately four million) don’t have the same rights to Israel as the white jews of the U.S. and Europe.

  • The Real Essence 1

    From the files of Media Takeout:

    ————————————————

    October 23, 2007. Today Show host Al Roker was one of the first public figures to call for Don Imus to be fired for his racially insensitive comments. He’s also been outspoken critic of hip hop artists who use the N Word. But MediaTakeOut.com has learned that privately Al Roker is a lot more accepting of racially insensitive remarks – especially when the people making them are his friends.

    On Friday, the Friar’s Club in New York City sponsored a roast of comedian Pat Cooper – with Al Roker a guest of honor. And during the roast, MediaTakeOut.com spies were shocked when comedians began openly used the N word.

    But there’s more. Not only did Al, who sat on the head table during the roast, condone his pals’ use the N Word – he actually enjoyed it. According to an attendee at Friday’s roast, Al Roker laughed uncontrollably when the comedians used the dreaded word. The witness told MediaTakeout.com, “[Comedians] Gilbert Gotfried, Pat Cooper, and Lisa Lampenella repeatedly used the N word … and every time they did, Al Roker seemed to laugh harder and harder.”

    And another attendee was equally disgusted with Al Roker’s blatant hypocrisy. That onlooker told MediaTakeOut.com, “White [comedians] were using the dreaded ‘N word’ and [Al] just sat there and laughed. He showed his true character.”

  • Traydayz

    Well if black women are known for big butts we need to put an APB out for bothe my sister’s asses cause they sure can’t find them!

  • ROB-B

    Abner, cut it out!! (LOL)

  • nono

    smart media people. a lot of these celebs say dumb things but they cut them out when the show airs!

  • jazzyphile

    Nobody really wants to see Halle’s movies. They all pretty much have bombed since she won an Oscar.

    Y’all women folk may not like this, but most guys could care less about Halle’s acting–we want to see her naked! Get naked Halle, your movies might go somehere instead of to video in a hot minute.

  • I’m Jewish

    I’m Jewish and wasn’t offended by Halle’s comment. It may be perceived by some as tacky but I don’t think she meant anything by it.

    Jewish/Judaism is a religion, ethnic group, culture not a race.

    Since when is Halle’s mother Jewish? She could very well have a Jewish cousin, Whoopi and others do. Who knows it could be her Jewish cousin Shaniquah Shottenstein from Shaker Heights.

    I think folks are overreacting and crying wolf. Agree that there is a double standard and with Yo. Well said.

    For the Yiddish lesson the word is goy not goya (gentile;shyksa or shiksa-female gentile; shagut-male gentile). The other is scvartza/h or schwartz not schwatza (N word)—I do give you serious points for trying.

    Ashkenasi Jews are from Western Europe. Liberal/Reform Jews. Sephardic Jews are from Eastern Europe or the Mediterranean area. Predominantly Chasidic, Orthodox some Conservative.

  • I’m Jewish part 2

    Agree she had a dumb moment and in her own way apologized.

  • Move on…

    The ADL has accepted Halle’s apology, why can’t the rest of us?

    http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/10/berrys-jew-joke-not-worth-a-plotz.php

  • Muff Diver

    You know what would be funny if her bastard kid grows up to be a mullato hitler

  • DC Tap Water

    So what?! We been called nigger for so long. To hell with a jewish nose!!

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