Merv Griffin makes a racist remark (in a comedy)

Yes, the we'll-be-right-back talkshow giant had his low moments, one of them being in this Steven Paul 1982 adapation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slapstick of Another Kind." It is unique in its awfulness.

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Here's some text about the movie from the former Funhouse blog, written by yrs truly:
Writer-director-producer Steven Paul made in Slapstick a film that attempts to visualize some of Vonnegut's craziest, cartoon-like images, and fails in a really amazing manner. In the process, a really dazzling cast of comic actors do their damndest, but only provoke groans and open-mouthed wonder. Jerry Lewis and Madeline Kahn play a couple who give birth to mutant giant twins (also Jerry and Madeline) who become a joint mastermind when they put their heads together (literally). Marty Feldman does a Peter Lorre impression as their guardian, Merv Griffin and Virginia Graham are on hand, Pat Morita plays a miniaturized Chinese head of state, Jim Backus is the president, and yes, that's the voice of Orson Welles as the alien leader. It's one rough ride, even at a mere 85 minutes, but it truly does have to go down as one of the worst pics ever made.

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[scalabration]

I don't say zipperhead any more. It pisses off the chinks, the gooks, and the nips.

[Atomicflash500]

What in Hell ...What is everything racist to you people ?...

[9162vb48]

Featuring Pat Morita -- who still hasn't apologized for Pearl Harbor.

[WSenator1]

Jesus! This is TERRIBLE!!

[ClintDuza]

@Atomicflash500 nothings racist to me, to me its all character building lol, cos only weak characters cry and get offended by words

[kakadoodoo3000]

zipperhead is particularly offensive bec. of its violent origins: "It is said to have been coined during the Korean war by frontline troops whom had run over enemy troops in jeeps. The soldiers claimed that the tire tracks from the jeeps left a pattern resembling that of a closed zipper along the corpse."

[skirandour]

@Atomicflash500 what do you mean YOU PEOPLE???

[Zack13arod]

Zipperheads is a rascist term used by soliders in the Korean war. It was said that if u shot them in the head it would split open.

[ftsjr]

What is a "zipperhead?" I never heard that expression.

[blg1330]

I don't get it. What's racist about "Zipper Heads"?

[Jillamed]

The racist comment was "Zipper Head."

And, no, Merv was not Jewish.

[Rico8458]

was he jewish?