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"Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

WARNING: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS PROFANE AND RACIAL

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.



Richards, who played the wacky Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show "Seinfeld," appeared onstage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.

The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass."

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 men who was the object of Richard's tirade was outraged, shouting back "That's un-f***ing called for, ain't necessary."

After the three-minute tirade, it appears the majority of the audience members got up and left in disgust.

Attempts to reach Richards' reps were unsuccessful.

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151. Comics seem to go ballistic whenever hecklers get to them. Strange reaction. You'd think it would be a ideal set-up for another joke. Looks like MR tried that but the joke flopped.

I wouldn't get too righteous or upset about all this. The guy is still a hoot.

Posted at 11:21AM on Nov 20th 2006 by JoJo Snow

152. Calm down... think about this... the guy is on stage and living in a video world. No one acts out like that ON STAGE, unless they're clinically insane or promoting himself for the phone cameras.

You don't like him? Don't give him the light. Let him blow away like dried poo.

Posted at 10:38AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Tigger

153. Richards is a funny guy and it makes one wonder why he doesn't get more work. I'm guessing he doesn't care much for the American Negro as a whole and from time to time has vocalized it like he did that night and it's hurt him. That's the way it should be but frankly I find less fault with Richards calling a spade a spade than I do the intolerance and double standard of the American Liberal. One fault is that of an individual the other a nasty bit of hypocrisy by those who seek to rule over a free country. Hate has no color though there are those who would have us believe otherwise.

Is Richards a racist? Probably not in the strictest terms? Is Richards prejudiced? Oh yeah, no doubt but so what? Anyone who tells you they don't prefer their own people is a liar.

Posted at 10:40AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Lefty Fucwitz

154. the rich ,white and Washington are using illegal aliens to steal welfare and healthcare entitlements and to demoralize the brothas by putting them in competition with a hard working people willing to assimilate and contribute to society rather than burn it down.

and all we can do is harp over a dumb comedian???

Posted at 10:38AM on Nov 20th 2006 by bill

155. Samantha - "Seinfeld" is the most popular show in the history of television. You didn't find it funny? You just aren't intelligent enough to get the humor.

Posted at 10:38AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Terri

156. Doesn't Jerry and the other one do a lot of schwarzer this and that? I have known jews who constantly do this schwarzer routine. I guess it is normal for Richards, Seinfeild and Jason what's his name. Maybe the Dreyfus chick does the "schwarzer" schtick too. It appears to be a yiddish way of using the N word.

Posted at 10:42AM on Nov 20th 2006 by LQF

157. Who cares. You're in a comedy club for crying out loud. Now-days, Blacks diss whites and whites diss blacks and sexist and racist jokes abound. I have had blacks call me very hateful and malicious names......I don't take it to heart, who gives a damn. Let it go. Those coloured individuals probably dished it out and just couldn;t take it themselves. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, if you can dish it out but can't take it. I'm sick of political correctness and bleeding heart bullsh*t.

Posted at 10:49AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Paul Pleau

158. I think Richards was trying to shock the audience and get its attention. The irony is that he almost certainly learned to talk that way from hanging around American negroes, who often refer to each other as "nigga." However, in today's easily-offended society, only negroes can call each other "nigga" with impunity. White men are evil when they do so.

Posted at 12:12PM on Nov 20th 2006 by Greg Raven

159. It sounded to me like he was exposing the black man as a racist, even though he did lose his cool. Today, they would throw a white man in jail for saying "nigger" but black people can bash white people all they want with impunity. As a comedian who travels the country, I'm sure he has had his fill of loud mouthed, inconsiderate, racist tirades from people all over the country, and if you remove your politically correct censored hood from your head for a moment, it will be abundantly clear that a good 90 percent of those come from black people. You ever go to a movie or eat in a restaruant or go to a club? Who is loud and threatening and obnoxious and uncaring about those around them the majority of the time? Yeah, that's right, black people.

Posted at 3:52PM on Nov 21st 2006 by Alan Shorefiled

160. You have to look at the situation and the context of what happened. The filth that came out of Rhard's mouth was spued in hate. He was looking for the cheapest shot he could take at the hecklers, and he took the racial one. Had it been a fat person, he would have been calling them fat slurs. The point is, that he spued those words with hate and with intent to insult. It was not a comedic skit, nor any type of attempt at making people laugh. You can see that he is clearly trying to cover his tracks after he realizes what he has said. He may not feel that type of hate in his heart, but to allow such moronic, un-educated, simply stupifying idea's to come out of your mouth is unexcusable. Such actions spread hate and widen the great devide that race causes amongst us. Someone should hand him a bible and ask to learn the love Jesus wanted us all to know.

Posted at 10:48AM on Nov 20th 2006 by K. Caldera

161. Let me see if I have everyone's attitude correct in this blog

If you don't agree with me you're stupid

If you don't agree with me you're a hate monger

If you don't agree with me you're racist

Sound like the kind of arguments I had in elementry school

This is the first time I've looked at internet postings in years and I see that the intelligence has not improved any and it is still just a waste of time.

I wonder why people weren't as outraged when andrew dice clay was the big thing.

I'll check back in 20 years, maybe there will be some intelligence out there.

Posted at 10:28PM on Dec 27th 2006 by Scott

162. Your comments: "GEN-X get off your high horse and stop reading into others'
posts and
summing them up with your own interpretations. The poster who quoted
MLK with "injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere" says it all.
Racism is wrong against ALL the races.

I'll get off my high horse if you come out from under your sheet.

Seriously, seems like most of the people who are posting pro-Richards had no problem as long as the people who were the ones making the jokes and killing innocent people in the name of "progress" had the same skin color. It's been less than 50 years since southerners were ordered to take down signs and already the majority, who started PC, are crying "Enough!"

Ultimately all of this is moot because my suspicion is that most of us will be speaking Spanish in another 50 years. Yes, that includes you, white power structure.

Posted at 10:44AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Gen-X

163. Just more racists PCers...when anyone not white makes racist or anti-american statements...thats f##n virtue...but let a dirty white boy say anything and oh hell...we gotta go liberal...ie the worst thing in the world...oh my how terrible and on and on...
My advise to Michael is to just ignore the left they aren't very bright anyway

Posted at 2:31PM on Nov 20th 2006 by BILL

164. #117...to all of you "progressive, liberated and better educated" types who are certainly more enlightened than we bigots, please remember from our friend the turkey that they drown in the rain if they constantly have their noses in the air. Get focused on the real world and purge the disease of PC. Now that's an education for you!

Posted at 10:41AM on Nov 20th 2006 by RC

165. N*gga is used amongst the blacks as a term of endearment. N*gger is a disgusting racial slur used by ignorant whites. This a**hole has zero talent as a comedian and comparing him to Chris Rock and David Chapelle is ridiculous. This is the reason OJ got off, the racist LA cops where exposed and the jury sent a message. It's called jury nullification and white jury's have been sending innocent blacks to jail and letting off guilty White's for decades. No justice no peace!

Posted at 10:41AM on Nov 20th 2006 by Nazeem

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