Kramer snaps

LOS ANGELES - Michael Richards stunned a comedy club audience, shouting racial epithets at people who heckled him during a stand-up routine.

The 57-year-old actor-comedian, best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit TV show "Seinfeld," was performing at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood Friday night when he launched into the verbal rampage, according to video posted on TMZ.com.

The tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny.

Richards retorted: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f------ fork up your a--."

He then paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.

"You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now mother------. Throw his a-- out. He's a n-----!" Richards shouts before repeating the racial epithet over and over again.

While there is some audible chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and various people "0oh" after Richard uses the n-word.

Richards performed the next night at the Laugh Factory without incident.

Calls to Richards' representatives were not immediately returned early Monday.

He refused to comment on-camera when reached by CNN, but the network reported that he said off-camera he felt sorry for what had happened and had made amends.




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yeah, looks familiar to the post I put up an hour ago in the laughs and games section

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Originally Posted by Kolba

His eyes must go red like that whenever he's saying something bad about Jews.

or when he has to make another apology

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

either way, it's funny how he tries to apologize like nothing's his fault, why can't these people just come out and say" yeah you know what I said it, and I don't deny it, so blame me as you will for my stupidity

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

So shut the fuck up if you don't know.

Was it funny? Not really. The interrupting the white man line was pretty good, but over all it was pretty fucking unfunny. But that's mostly because Michael Richards is mostly unfunny. However, the black guy did call him a cracker-ass. That's a racial slur too. Someone yell at that ignant ass nigga.

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dude, calm the fuck down. I didn't steal anything, I was intro'd to this site by a friend here, and just chose something at random. I'd have to be pretty bored to search through a forum just to steal someone else' av and sig

I was speaking idiomatically.

in all honesty, richards said that he did it cause he had a lot of anger at the time. I myself never support using that word period for what he used, but it really would've made better sense for him to find a different outlet for that anger before the show, to avoid the aforementioned incident

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

yeah, it's sad knowing you're such a comedian that you can't be taken seriously anymore

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here's an update on that story:

Men Seek Apology From Ex-'Seinfeld' Star


LOS ANGELES - Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, one of the men and their lawyer said Friday.

Frank McBride and Kyle Doss said they were part of a group of about 20 people who had gathered at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory to celebrate a friend's birthday. According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, they were ordering drinks when Richards berated them for interrupting his act.

When one of their group replied that he wasn't funny, Richards launched into a string of obscenities and repeatedly used the n-word. A video cell phone captured the outburst.

Richards, who played Jerry Seinfeld's wacky neighbor Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," made a nationally televised apology on the "Late Show with David Letterman" earlier this week. He has since apologized to the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, both civil rights leaders.

But Doss, 26, said Friday he wanted a "face-to-face apology."

"To have him do what he did to me ... I can't even explain it," Doss said. "I was humiliated, even scared at one point."

Richards' publicist said his client wants to apologize to both men, who are black, but hasn't been able to locate them.

Allred, speaking by phone from Colorado, said Richards should meet McBride and Doss in front of a retired judge to "acknowledge his behavior and to apologize to them" and allow the judge to decide on monetary compensation.

"It's not enough to say 'I'm sorry' on 'David Letterman,'" she said.

She did not mention a specific figure, but pitched the idea as a way for the comic to avoid a lawsuit.

"Our clients were vulnerable," Allred said. "He went after them. He singled them out and he taunted them, and he did it in a closed room where they were captive."

The video of Richards' outburst shows several people getting up and walking out as he shouts at the audience.

Richards' publicist said the comic wasn't considering any demand for payment. "He's not dealing with that," Howard Rubenstein said. "He wants to apologize to them directly and then see what happens."

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Originally Posted by Rita the Carpet Cleaner

I love how Nancy Grace gets so self-righteous that people cannot move on with their lives without her permission.

yeah, but at least they make life entertaining with their antics

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well, in either case, apparently the apology is set.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ory?id=2693606

you know, this is completely fucking sad. he said this racist shit, claimed it was because he was angry (like that's any fucking reason), and then goes off, acts all sympathetic, but mostly just pathetic, and now had to talk to his lawyers in order to see if he could apologize. Excuse me Mr. Richards, you got a little brown coming out of your ears now, here's a tissue to plug it up with.

this is just typical of celebrities. they completely fuck up in in the worst possible way, try to act all sugary sweet and apologize in a cutesy way, like a 3 year old who just broke some dishes, but yet have to go to a lawyer first to make up for their mistakes. then there are those who never apologize and just outright run off, like the lindsay lohan/paris hilton incident, when lohan called paris a cunt on camera, and then quickly gets in the car, makes a shitty excuse, then drives off as fast as she can, as seen in exhibit B here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqKhT41Wx6U

why is it so hard just to say "you know what? yeah I fucked up, and badly"

anyone else have any thoughts on these?

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