Oh, Kramer
As anyone who reads the celebrity gossip pages knows, this is video of comedian Michael Richards, Kramer from Seinfeld, exploding into a racist diatribe during a performance at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles Saturday night. Richards, who, apologized on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, said he became incensed when a group in the audience heckled him and he "took it badly." He then awkwardly tried to put the incident in sociological perspective, saying "he was concerned about the hate and rage," and "the great deal of disturbance between blacks and whites after Hurricane Katrina."
While we're saddened and disturbed that this favored icon of our youth would exhibit such intolerance, we're also slightly amused by the fall-out. For example, any incident that gets a video titled "Kramer is a Racist Motherfucker" on YouTube has to make you chuckle. We also think this video explains why it's been so hard for Michael Richards to establish a post-Seinfeld career. Even as he spews some of the most hate-filled words in the English language, we expect him to snap his fingers, wink, dance herky-jerky across the stage and blame the whole thing on a roofy Bob Sacamano slipped him.
And while we don't in any means condone this type of behavior, we still think there are worse things in which a washed-up, former superstar comedian from NBC can engage.
DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK.
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Why couldn't Michael Richard have fended off the hecklers with his 'cue the Kramer shuffle, cue the opening the door as you stride in, cue the bemused facial expression, cue the 'gagajhkkghrgh' sound?' That would get em every time.
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