Kanye West Made a Laughing Stock at Toronto Film Festival

UPDATE 9/20/09: Taylor Swift might want to move forward, but industry folks can't stop talking about the now-infamous Kanye West VMA's outburst, according to E! Online.

During the Cadillac People's Choice Awards held at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday night, White Stripes Jack White frontman re-enacted West's notorious interruption of Swift's acceptance speech. Just as the director Emmit Malloy of the concert documentary, "The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights," began explaining the inspiration for the film to the audience, White snatched the mike and said: "Imma let you finish—but Orson Welles made the greatest movie of all time!" He even closed his  tribute to the Chi-town rapper  with a shrug of indifference causing raucous laughter from the crowd.—KNB

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Swift Wants to Forget Kanye Fiasco

UPDATE 9/20/09: Country songbird Taylor Swift wants everyone to get over Kanye West's outburst at last week's MTV Video Music Awards because she most certainly has.

The singer, who accepted West's apology after he called her following her "The View" appearance, has forgiven and forgotten and wants media hounds to back off once and for all with the inquiries.  

According to WENN, Swift immediately switched gears during a radio interview in Tampa Bay, Florida, on Thursday when they inquired about the incident.

"You know, honestly, I'm trying not to make it into a bigger deal than it already is. It's kind of become more of a bigger deal than I thought it would be," Swift said. "I would just like to move on a little bit. I didn't know what to think, but I think we should talk about something else. It's nothing I feel like we should talk about."—KNB

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Radio Stations Pull Kanye's Music

UPDATE 9/17/09: Taylor Swift might have forgiven and forgotten about Kanye West's tirade, but those who control the airwaves are still holding a grudge, according to Fox40.com.

Despite making a public apology to Swift on the Jay Leno show and picking up the phone and calling her after her appearance on "The View," San Joaquin Valley Radio station 95.1 has removed the Chi-town's rappers music off its playlist on Monday.

Allegedly, three additional websites for Miami radio stations have followed suit.—KNB

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Kanye Calls Taylor While She's at 'The View;' All Is Forgiven

UPDATE 9/14/09:  Just minutes after telling the hosts of "The View" that Kanye West hadn't reached out to her, the rapper called the singer to ask for her forgiveness, according to EW.com. A representative for "The View" tells our partner Web site that West called Swift before her interview was even done airing.

"Kanye did call me," Swift revealed to ABC News Radio's Andrea Dressdale. "He was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology." Is she totally cool with the megaproducer after all this? "Yeah, definitely," Swift says.—ZH

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Taylor Swift: Kanye West Hasn't Reached Out to Me

UPDATE 9/14/09:  Taylor Swift wouldn't mind receiving a personal apology from Kanye West. In an appearance on "The View" today, the young country star says the rapper has yet to reach out to her, according to People.com. "He has not personally reached out or anything," she said, "but if he wanted to say hi..."

Swift shared what she was going through on Sunday night during that now infamous, dreadful incident.

"My overall thought process went something like, 'Wow, I can't believe I won. This is awesome. Don't trip and fall. I'm going to get to thank the fans, this is so cool ... Oh, Kanye West is here! Cool haircut! What are you doing there? And then, ouch. And then, I guess I'm not going to thank the fans.'"

The tirade happened just minutes before she was scheduled to perform, but Swift says she couldn't let it affect her performance. "I'm not going to say that I wasn't rattled by it," said the MTV Moonman winner for Best Female Video, "but I had to perform live five minutes later so I had get myself back to the place where I could perform."

West said on "The Jay Leno Show" last night that he'd like to apologize to Swift in person. We'll wait and see.—ZH

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Who You Callin' a N****R? Tirade Backlash Gets Ugly

UPDATE 9/14/09:  Did Kanye West's recent remarks at the MTV Video Music Awards lead to an increase of racist comment online? It may seem that way. Since his outburst during country singer Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video on Sunday, it appears that there has been a flood of racist remarks on Twitter.—NH

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Kanye Gives a More Remorseful Apology on 'The Jay Leno Show'

UPDATE 9/14/09: Holding back tears, Kanye West offered a more heartfelt apology before his performance with Jay-Z and Rihanna on the season premiere of "The Jay Leno Show" on Monday night.

"Dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away from a talented artist...I only wanted to help people, you know, my entire life, and I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong...it was someone's emotions that I stepped on. It was rude. Period. I'd like to be able to apologize to [Taylor Swift] in person," Ye said on the show. 

Things got emotional when Leno—who said he was fortunate enough to meet Kanye's mother, Dr. Donda West, several years ago before her sudden death—asked the hip-hop A-lister what he thought his mom would have said about the incident. The question helped to shed light on West's behavior. His eyes welling, Kanye was at a loss for words. "Would she be disappointed in this? Would she give you a lecture?" Leno asked.

After a long pause, Kanye answered: "Obviously, I deal with hurt. And so many celebrities, they never take the time off, and I've never taken the time off to really... I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt. And I don't try to justify it because I was in the wrong,  but I need to take some time off to analyze how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve."—ZH

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Mathew Knowles Arranged for Taylor Swift to Have Her Moment

UPDATE 9/14/09: After Kanye West's tirade at the MTV Video Music Awards, Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's dad, went backstage to comfort Taylor Swift's family and arranged the moment in which Swift was able to give her acceptance speech, according to People.com.

"Let's try this again," joked the young country star after Beyoncé welcomed her on stage during her win for Video of the Year. Many of Swift's fellow industry peers have reached out to the singer. She's been overwhelmed by all the "kindness, support and generosity," said a spokesman for Swift.—ZH

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Kanye Releases Another Apology

UPDATE 9/14/09: As blogs and twitterscope continue to flog Kanye West for storming the stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, the rapper has issued another apology on his website.

"I feel like Ben Stiller in "Meet the Parents" when he messed up everything and Robert De Niro asked him to leave... That was Taylor's moment and I had no right in any way to take it from her. I am truly sorry."—CJ

Do you think Kanye will learn his lesson?