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Have you guys seen this video of Kramer this past weekend?
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index....pmmsid=1772645
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index....pmmsid=1772645
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Did you guys already see this?Comment
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heard it on the radio this morning....can't belive they let him back on stage the following night....Comment
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It was very Andy Kaufman like...If any of you guys saw Kaufman in his hey day.....
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They did? I didn't know that, I thought he might have left for a foreign country. He is just laughing this off?Originally posted by tashComment
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WowComment
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Who gives a fuck? Chris Rock has tons of bits about white people. He calls them crackers. Another double standard I guess....Comment
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According to Drudge, he's gonna appear on Letterman tonight and issue an apology (Seinfeld is one of Dave's guests, btw)
Must be a REALLY slow news day for this to be at the top of all the headlines todayComment
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Originally posted by BigMike
YEAH WHATS THE BIG DEAL ANYWAY? IM SURE HE JUST SAID WHAT YOU AND A LOT OF OTHERS THINK ANYWAY, RIGHT? I COULD TRUST SOMEONE LIKE HIM MORE THAN SNEAKY PEOPLE ANYWAY WHO LAUGHS WITH YOU AND CALLS YOU NAMES BEHIND YOUR BACK. AT LEAST WITH HIM I WOULD KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.
P.S CHRIS ROCK DOESNT INSULT PEOPLE'S HERITAGE AND MAKE FUN OF THEM IF THERE ANCESTORS WERE RAPED MUTILATED AND PILAGED...............FYIComment
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Richards Apologizes for Racially-Charged Rant
By LYNN ELBER, AP
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 21) - He called two black hecklers the "n-word" and enthusiastically referenced a time when blacks were often victims of civil rights abuses, but Michael Richards said his verbal barrage during a stand-up routine was fueled by anger and not bigotry.
"For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry," the former "Seinfeld" co-star said during a satellite appearance for David Letterman's "Late Show" in New York.
"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself.
Richards described himself as going into "a rage" over the two audience members who interrupted his act Friday at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood.
His explanation was reminiscent of Mel Gibson 's assertion that he wasn't anti-Semitic after he let off a barrage of Jewish slurs during a traffic stop last summer: despite what came out of his mouth, that's not what is inside him.
Industry colleagues were in no hurry to accept Richards' apology.
"Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining," comedian Paul Rodriguez, who was at the Laugh Factory during Richards' performance, told CNN. "Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations."
Veteran publicist Michael Levine, whose clients have included comedians George Carlin , Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, called Richards' remarks inexcusable. Comics often face hecklers without losing their cool, he said.
"I've never seen anything like this in my life," Levine said Monday. "I think it's a career ruiner for him. ... It's going to be a long road back for him, if at all."
His Laugh Factory tirade began after the two clubgoers shouted at him that he wasn't funny. A videotape of the incident was posted on TMZ.com.
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.
Moderating his tone at one point, Richards tells the audience, "It shocks you, it shocks you" and refers to "what lays buried."
While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and people respond with "ooh" after Richards uses the n-word.
Eventually someone calls out: "It's not funny. That's why you're a reject, never had no shows, never had no movies. `Seinfeld,' that's it."
Jerry Seinfeld, who had issued a statement saying he was "sick over this horrible, horrible mistake" and calling it offensive, was scheduled as a Letterman guest Monday. He encouraged Richards to make a satellite appearance to talk about the incident, a CBS publicist said.
Richards deserved the chance to apologize, Seinfeld said on "Late Show."
"He's someone that I love and I know how shattered he is about" what happened, Seinfeld said.
At one point, however, Richards grew flustered and expressed second thoughts about appearing on the program when his use of the term "Afro-American" caused some audience members to laugh.
"I'm hearing your audience laugh and I'm not even sure that this is where I should be addressing the situation," he said.
Richards, 57, who played Seinfeld's eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit 1989-98 sitcom, hadn't spoken publicly about his remarks before "Late Show."
Associated Press Writers Jacob Adelman in Los Angeles and Erin Carlson in New York contributed to this report.Comment
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Wow, Kramer lost control there. That was bad, in this politically correct society we live in you cant do that.
His career is done, not that he needs the money but he is thru. Sad, he is one of the most beloved charactures on any show that i have ever seen, in an instance he is now a racistQuestions, comments, complaints:
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We see nothing wrong with what Cosmo Kramer said during his standup...
Sincerely,
The KKKComment
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I was at that same show and i thought it was funny. Kramer is my hero...
Regards,
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