Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Comic Eddie Griffin not so funny when N-word gets act axed

IF COMEDIAN Eddie Griffin didn't know the N-word was banned and buried,he found out when the publisher of Black Enterprise magazine pulled the plug on his raunchy standup routine.Griffin who headlined a sold-out show at Black Enterprise's 14th annual Golf and Tennis Challenge in Miami on Friday, was about 10 minutes into his N-word-laced act when publisher Earl Graves turned off the mike.Minutes later, Graves appeared onstage with a card and plug in one hand and working microphone in the other. He told the audience at the posh Doral Golf Resort that Griffin's mikecrophone had been turned off because he repeatedly used the N-word.Graves, a prominent business-man whose Labor Day weekend event attracts corporate sponsors like Aetna,Pepsi and FedEx, got a standing ovation.He said Griffin, 39, would be paid.Attendees said Griffin ---who has appeared in "Deuce Bigalow" "Male Gigalo,"Undercover Brother" and "Scary Movie 3" --sauntered onto the stage smoking a cigarette. He yelled " F--y'all " before walking off, they said. " We at Black Enterprise will not allow our culture to go backward," Graves said. The NAACP held a public "burial "for the racial slur during it's annual convention in Detroit in July. Griffin's publicist, Jeff Abraham, declined to comment. nydailynews 9-5-07 p 6