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.