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#75 · (Edited)
so the guy behind the Kramer character turned out to be an ignorant pig. so ignorant that he continued to insult people even while apologising.

and i'm not saying he didn't care, but Jerry Seinfeld seemed more motivated by how all of this was going to hurt the release of his new DVD if you ask me.
 
#78 ·
More stories come out the woodwork.....

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1164235813193

`Kramer' also ranted at Jews, woman
TMZ details another blowout
Woman says C-word was used
Nov. 23, 2006. 01:00 AM
LISA DE MORAES
THE WASHINGTON POST

African Americans apparently aren't the only targets of comedian Michael Richards' comedy club wrath.

The man heretofore best known as Cosmo Kramer, Jerry Seinfeld's lovable weirdsmobile made-for-TV neighbour, appears to have cut a much wider swath in his comedy-club slurring, also taking in Jews and women.

TMZ — the AOL Time Warner gossip website that brought us Richards' N-word marathon — yesterday introduced a video interview it conducted with two people who say Richards went on a similar room-silencing screamfest about Jews during an appearance at another Hollywood comedy club last spring.

And an L.A. comic named Jeremy Beth Michaels has written for the Web about the time she says Richards tried to break the world record for most uses of the C-word in one conversation at a comedy club when she may or may not have accidentally knocked over a recorder he was using to tape his performance.

Yesterday on TMZ, you could watch Carol Oschin and J.P. Fillett as they described their visit to the Improv on April 22.

Oschin said Richards "said something derogatory to a man sitting close to the stage" and when the man retorted, Richards said, "`You (expletive) Jew! You people are the cause of Jesus dying!' And he just kept on blurting out derogatory statements about the Jews. And the entire club got very, very quiet. We didn't know if it was part of the act or did this guy lose his mind. He got very violent and very agitated."

She says Richards' tirade about Jews went on for several minutes, after which he stormed offstage — just like last Friday after his tirade about African Americans.

TMZ managing editor Harvey Levin told the Washington Post that Oschin and Fillett contacted the website after seeing the video of Richards' verbal attack on black patrons. The two had a receipt for the April performance and "great detail" but, Levin said, TMZ folk were wary because "people come out of the woodwork and make claims'' when stories like this break.

But when TMZ called the Improv and "they were very cagey" and gave a "no comment" on the date of Richards' gig, "we started realizing there might be something to this," Levin said.

Then they called Howard Rubenstein, Richards' spokesman.

Rubenstein told the Post yesterday that Richards acknowledged having made the derogatory comments about Jews at the Improv.

Richards told him it was all an act. Rubinstein says Richards told him, "I'm not anti-Semitic. I was playing a role and poking fun at the ********."

And besides, Rubenstein said, Richards "himself is Jewish."

"He also says `I'm a hothead' and he acknowledges he says inappropriate things from time to time. But he's certainly not anti-Semitic."

Okay — how about misogynistic?

According to comedian Michaels on the website Moron Life, she and Richards both performed at an L.A. club in October. As she was picking up his tape recorder, which had somehow fallen and come apart at the end of his performance, she writes, he came up to her and said, "You're a (expletive), (same expletive), (still the same expletive), dirty little (sticking with that expletive), on and on ... "

She writes that after about an hour of "Kramer" talking to the manager, "Kramer and I ended up talking outside. He asks me, `Are we okay'? I kind of stared at him and after a brief, what the (expletive) is wrong with you pause, said, `Yeah, we're okay.'"

Back to Rubenstein: "I talked to him about that," he said. "He got into a verbal argument with her and they had it out ... both used some harsh language and he thinks he made peace with her. They were quite friendly the next day.

"He says `I'm a hothead,'" Rubenstein added, again.
 
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Geez Louise, these two black guys are really exploiting this to the max. What a sickening farce. They're just using this stupid episode to play the race card in the most openly crass manner to enrich themselves at Richards' expense. And since have when Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton become paradigms of racial harmony. I can't think of two people who are better at playing race cards to their own advantages. Richards is getting mugged. :rolleyes:

Men want apology and more from Michael Richards
Saturday, November 25, 2006

After allegedly bearing the brunt of Michael Richards' racially charged rant last week at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, two men in the audience that night say they now want a personal apology and possibly some money from Richards, the actor who shot to fame as Kramer on Seinfeld. According to a statement made by their lawyer Gloria Allred on Friday, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss claim they were in the audience at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood for a birthday celebration when Michael Richards unleashed a racist tirade on them for interrupting his act as they were ordering drinks. According to the Associated Press, "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."

On Wednesday, however, two days prior to the Friday statement, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss appeared with Gloria Allred on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 where the two men shared their thoughts with interim host John Roberts. When asked by John Roberts whether they felt the incident was a societal issue or a legal issue and whether they should receive compensation, Kyle Doss replied, "Both. I felt threatened, you know. I felt completely embarrassed, not only me; my family does, also. Like I said before, my mom was calling me, asking about this, and I have a little 4-year- old cousin asking me why is this man saying this, and what does this stuff mean?" Roberts then asked whether he feels Michael Richards owes him something beyond an apology, to which Doss responded, "Oh, yes. Of course."

When the issue of money was presented, John Roberts then turned to Gloria Allred and asked whether Michael Richards needed to apologize with his wallet, to which Allred responded, "Well, we'd like him, first of all, to sit there and apologize, face to face, man to man. We think he should do that in the presence of a retired judge. And the retired judge can make a recommendation as to whether he thinks compensation is due, and if so, in what amount. My clients have pledged to accept whatever the retirement -- retired judge recommends, and we think that Mr. Richards should do likewise."

In an attempt to do damage control over the incident, Michael Richards appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman early last week to apologize and try to regain his shattered reputation. Richards appeared via satellite on The Late Show and was clearly shaken and nervous as he apologized for what he said, "I lost my temper on stage. I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled, and I took it badly, and went into a rage and said some pretty nasty things to some Afro-Americans, a lot of trash talk."

As the fallout from Michael Richards' racist rant continued throughout the week, Richards hired New York publicist Howard Rubenstein to help him make amends. Soon after hiring Rubenstein, Michael Richards reached out to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton to make amends to the black community, but as Jackson accepted Richards' apology, Sharpton rebuffed the comedian. As the New York Daily Newsreveals, Sharpton wasn't as forgiving with his words, ""I cannot accept his apology. He called me yesterday to say sorry, but it's not my place to accept that on behalf of all blacks. I can forgive, but I'm not the victim here. What he said hurt a lot of people." Sharpton did, however, go on to reveal that Richards' apology was a step in the right direction.

In the wake of recent events concerning compensation and money, Howard Rubenstein recently revealed that Michael Richards wasn't dealing with that end of the issue and wants to apologize directly to McBride and Doss and and see what happens.

Michael Richards began his stand-up comedy routine in 1979 and caught his first big TV break on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. Richards went on to have roles in Fridays, Miami Vice, Cheers and a film role in "Weird Al" Yankovic's movie, UHF. In 1989, the same year as UHF, Richards landed the part of Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld. Richards was also the focus of the short-lived series, The Michael Richards Show in 2000.
 
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