Author Topic: 'Kramer' Shocks Los Angeles Comedy Club Audience by Spewing Racial Slurs (Read 13139 times)

Dos Equis · « **on:** November 20, 2006, 10:01:16 AM »

I tell ya. Get someone angry and their true colors shine through.

'Kramer' Shocks Los Angeles Comedy Club Audience by Spewing Racial Slurs
Monday, November 20, 2006

Actor Michael Richards, known for playing 'Kramer' on 'Seinfeld.'
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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230727,00.html

Diesel1 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:22:50 AM »

Sounds like it was a right laugh

Here's the vid but it won't work for me
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1772645

Earl1972 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:25:16 AM »

when you put down somebody's passion and what they do for a living don't cry when they put you down

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Option D · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:42:09 AM »

i think the hecklers were wrong but for his first comeback to be racial was tasteless. He could have gotten back at them a different way. The first thing out his mouth was racial.

K-1 · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:52:10 AM »

Damn!

Kramer shut that bi*ch down didn't he.

Havenbull · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2006, 11:24:23 AM »

Quote from: K-1 on November 20, 2006, 10:52:10 AM

Damn!

Kramer shut that bi*ch down didn't he.

hahalaolololol he sure as hell did, damn!!

Diesel1 · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2006, 11:26:18 AM »

Here we go

Grundle · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2006, 11:29:52 AM »

Michael Richard's live act sucks. He seems like a bitter dude because in spite of his money and past success, his "Kramer" persona prevents him from ever getting another gig.

Cavalier22 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2006, 12:17:35 PM »

it also keeps his royalty checks coming in at a large and regular pace

Camel Jockey · « **Reply #9 on:** November 20, 2006, 12:57:34 PM »

Sometimes you just fucking lose it... it happens to every person.

Dos Equis · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:12:21 PM »

True. On the other hand, people tend to say things in anger that they truly believe, but otherwise wouldn't say if they weren't angry. I would imagine "Kramer" uses this kind of language in private all the time.

On a somewhat related note, I talked to someone who worked in a nursing home and she told me that some of the white residents who suffered from dementia would routinely use racial epithets when talking to some of the workers.

Colossus_500 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:30:25 PM »

$:-\$

Wow. I wish I hadn't watched the video. Everyone has their low points. I hope this is just one of those days for Michael Richards. Dag, I feel bad for him. The hecklers were wrong too though. Were the people getting up and walking out? It look like it.

Al-Gebra · « **Reply #12 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:45:28 PM »

Quote from: Diesel1 on November 20, 2006, 11:26:18 AM

Here we go

wow. that was a meltdown.

kinda sad to see that he has so much bitterness in him, despite having enjoyed more success than most people ever see.

danielson · « **Reply #13 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:51:18 PM »

He just misses Newman $:-\$

K-1 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:51:23 PM »

Quote from: Colossus_500 on November 20, 2006, 01:30:25 PM

$:-\$

Wow. I wish I hadn't watched the video. Everyone has their low points. I hope this is just one of those days for Michael Richards. Dag, I feel bad for him. The hecklers were wrong too though. Were the people getting up and walking out? It look like it.

My man was just having a bad day man. We all have them. I know I've had mine before. Gotta check that sh*t though man.

Yeah he went overboard on that "release" there, but honestly if he was one of my boys later on I would have been like damn man you o.k? I feel he just lost it. I would have just rolled out (probably laughing my a$$ off thinking this mofo has lost his mind) had I been in the crowd though.

He DID shut that ENTIRE mofo down though. I give him that. He closed the show!

You could tell after he was done, he was like "it's over man!"

Nordic Superman · « **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:56:54 PM »

Quote from: Beach Bum on November 20, 2006, 01:12:21 PM

True. On the other hand, people tend to say things in anger that they truly believe, but otherwise wouldn't say if they weren't angry. I would imagine "Kramer" uses this kind of language in private all the time.

On a somewhat related note, I talked to someone who worked in a nursing home and she told me that some of the white residents who suffered from dementia would routinely use racial epithets when talking to some of the workers.

True.

The racial slurs got some giggles out of the crowd tho

Parker · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2006, 02:28:40 PM »

Why did he have to go that route. I seen guys deal with hecklers before, hell some stand comedians heckle the audience.

I wonder what "Kramer" had to say to the suits who shut his show down after a couple of airings...

He couldn't say anything then

240 is Back · « **Reply #17 on:** November 20, 2006, 02:52:49 PM »

yes, meltdown. He looked a little pill'd up.

And yes, he does feel those things deep down. With wine or anger comes truth.

Dos Equis · « **Reply #18 on:** November 20, 2006, 02:56:41 PM »

He may be frustrated because his career has been stagnant since Seinfeld? Still, no excuse.

Parker · « **Reply #19 on:** November 20, 2006, 04:25:06 PM »

Michael Richards will apologize on David Letterman. Just saw a preview on the CBS Nightly News. Jerry Seinfeld asked him to be on. Michael admits to going into a rage, and "lost it"

He says, the dreaded, "...I'm not a racist."

Remember the "You might be a Redneck if..."

Well, "You might be a Racist if...you get angry at a heckler and called the person a racist name"

Parker · « **Reply #20 on:** November 20, 2006, 04:25:47 PM »

Michael Richards will apologize on David Letterman. Just saw a preview on the CBS Nightly News. Jerry Seinfeld asked him to be on. Michael admits to going into a rage, and "lost it"

He says, the dreaded, "...I'm not a racist, that's what is so insane."

Remember the "You might be a Redneck if..."

Well, "You might be a Racist if...you get angry at a heckler and called the person a racist name"

bmacsys · « **Reply #21 on:** November 20, 2006, 04:57:48 PM »

Quote from: Colossus_500 on November 20, 2006, 01:30:25 PM

$:-\$

Wow. I wish I hadn't watched the video. Everyone has their low points. I hope this is just one of those days for Michael Richards. Dag, I feel bad for him. The hecklers were wrong too though. Were the people getting up and walking out? It look like it.

Yeah, it was painful to watch. Both for Richards and the hecklers.

24KT · « **Reply #22 on:** November 20, 2006, 05:31:05 PM »

Quote from: Grundle on November 20, 2006, 11:29:52 AM

Michael Richard's live act sucks. He seems like a bitter dude because in spite of his money and past success, his "Kramer" persona prevents him from ever getting another gig.

That's why actors demand royalty & residual payments for the continued use of their images in TV, Film, & commercials.

A successful commercial can kill a career in it's tracks! $:-\$
I'm a happy camper today, ...cause I just got another residual cheque for a movie made 8 yrs ago.

24KT · « **Reply #23 on:** November 20, 2006, 05:32:13 PM »

Repost from the other thread:

I could see Russell Peters saying what Richards did, and pulling it off. He'd have a smile on his face,
and probably so would the entire audience, including the loud people he was heckling in return
It looked to me like Richards was having a meltdown, and he DID go too far.
We all saw what happened to Mel Gibson after his bigotted tirade, ...lets see what happens to Richards.
The best part of the video for me, was watching all the audience members getting up and walking out.

blinky · « **Reply #24 on:** November 20, 2006, 08:12:45 PM »

Quote from: Grundle on November 20, 2006, 11:29:52 AM

Michael Richard's live act sucks. He seems like a bitter dude because in spite of his money and past success, his "Kramer" persona prevents him from ever getting another gig.

was just gonna post the same thing. a bitter man because he has had no success after "kramer".

yes the hecklers shouldnt have started but he went over the line with the racist stuff.