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Kramer in hot water UPDATE
“WARNING: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS PROFANE AND RACIAL” warns TMZ.com next to the video clip of Michael Richards going mental during a recent set at the Factory in Los Angeles. (The video clip rolls after an advertisement for a video game based on “Flushed Away.” How appropriate!)
From the TMZ.com transcript of Richards’ tirade:
Richards continued, “You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He’s a nigger! He’s a nigger! He’s a nigger! A nigger, look, there’s a nigger!”
The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, “They’re going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger.”
One of the objects of the tirade summed things up nicely, saying, “That’s un-f***ing called for, you cracker-ass motherf**ker!”
Perhaps Richards is just a reeeeeally big Lenny Bruce fan. (The Sarcasm Light is flashing!)
The TMZ folks filed the posting under “Train Wreck.”
One of our new favorite phrases– “Audibly confused!”
Our every move is being recorded. Big Brother is watching? No… Little Brother is in the back of the house and he’s got a cellphone that can capture video! Fascinating times these are. When a comic loses his cool, or bombs, or gets booed, it’ll show up on the WWW. It matters not if the incident occurs in Manhattan or Missoula, in Los Angeles or Lake Charles, it can pop up on the WWW in a matter of hours. The implications are enormous.
UPDATE: Former co-star Jerry Seinfeld has weighed in on the incident:
Seinfeld issued a statement saying he was “sick” over the “extremely offensive” statements.
“I’m sure Michael is also sick over this horrible, horrible mistake,” he said.
“It is so extremely offensive. I feel terrible for all the people who have been hurt.”
The number of articles on Google news is past 400 and no doubt growing hourly.
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“When a comic loses his cool, or bombs, or gets booed it’ll show up on the WWW.”I think it’s a little different when a no name comic bombs in Pennsylvania as opposed to Kramer going on a wild racist rant. In the former, no one really cares- in the latter he deserves to only get booked on the White Supremist Circuit.
The crime is that they keep calling Richards a stand-up comedian. He may be a funny comic actor, but he is more actor and barely a comic. and if you want to drop the N-bomb, fine — damn sure make it funny or you’re dead. He was just floundering and, clearly, hadn’t dealt with chatterboxes in a crowd before. He panicked… but in that situation, why go racial? < HREF="http://www.dougfun.com/blog_view.cfm?id=14" REL="nofollow"> Something to think about! <>
Tom1115 commented:“I think it’s a little different when a no name comic bombs in Pennsylvania as opposed to Kramer going on a wild racist rant.”A little different, but not much. We’re seeing clips of a not-so-famous comic being accosted onstage in Seattle, a clip of a famous comic being booed onstage in Camden, NJ, a comic klonging a patron over the head (off-camera) with his guitar (admittedly an old clip, but the WWW doesn’t care about the timeliness of a an image or an incident) and we’re seeing a clip of Jamie Foxx trashing another comic during a cable television broadcast. The whole gamut. It is fascinating that the world in general (and along with it, the comedy world) is shrinking and virtually every live appearance can potentially be a “broadcast.”
I’m pretty sure Michael Richards has done standup plenty. Wasn’t he known as a standup before he got the spot on Fridays back in the day?Plenty of comics have lost it on stage. I know I have. You’re never proud of it, but now you have to worry that someone’s going to try to make their YouTube bones at your expense.Anyone ever see the old Hicks set where he snaps and drops about 100 c-bombs in five minutes? I put Richards’ tantrum in that category.
While we’re reluctant to cite Wikipedia as the final word, their bio of Richards says that he worked up a standup set in 1979 and got a break nine months later, landing a spot on a Billy Crystal special (doing exactly what, we’re not sure).In 1980, he was on ABC’s Fridays, where he did sketch comedy. He has done a lot of standup appearances since the Seinfeld series ended. It’s a good way to keep your name/likeness out there.
Word, Timmy. I just read the letters section on Salon.com where people are commenting on the incident with comments such as “stand up comics and sketch performers are needy and unbalanced.” Another wrote that they always heard rumours that Richard’s is an angry, angry man and it finally showed up in his act. And the last one alludes to the Richards-Seinfeld-David “axis” as “disturbing”. Great. Comics are evil, evil people.I wondered about Richard’s stand up experience as well and while being too much of a chicken to defend him, I can sympathize. I know you aren’t supposed to blame the audience but some nights you get a bunch of bastards that are there to abuse the performers. Shocking, I know. What professional in any other field has to put up with that crap? He may not have meant it to come out the way it did and couldn’t bail himself out of a failed experiment and commenced with a bad spoof on racism schtick. I don’t know how to word this without sounding like an aplogist for Richard’s, but I am interested in his version of events as a comic because we know the language. After writing that, it sounds kind of morbid in way so maybe not.As the media tends to prefer disturbed edgy comics, little surprise that comics might try to shock people into shutting the “f” up. But that said, using that word is going over the line and I would have just walked off the stage if I couldn’t bring it back around. Who’s going to tape and post that?Now, as a <>disturbed, obsessive and paranoid<> comic, I am terrified that I will accidently say the N word on stage. Thanks, Kramer.