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Griffin cut off, check clears

A NYDN gossip item tells of Eddie Griffin getting the hook at Black Enterprise’s 14th annual Golf and Tennis Challenge in Miami last weekend. The event is run by publisher Earl Graves, who got a standing ovation when he told the audience that Griffin was cut off after ten “N-word-laced” minutes.

Graves, a prominent businessman whose Labor Day weekend event attracts corporate sponsors like Aetna, Pepsi and FedEx, got a standing ovation. He said Griffin, 39, would be paid.

This is twice in the last ten days that we’ve heard of a comic getting yanked– but paid! Nice trend! It seems it’s possible to work the corporate and college circuit with a dirty ten! You go up, do your filthy ten, get asked to leave and get a check! All this time, we thought we needed a solid, squeaky 45!