Andy Dick -- The New "Kramer"?

Posted Dec 5th 2006 12:29PM by TMZ Staff

Andy Dick hasn't learned anything from the Michael Richards incident.

According to sources, the hopped-up comedian hopped onstage Saturday at L.A.'s Improv comedy club and dropped the n-bomb on a room full of stunned clubgoers.

Andy was heckling comedian Ian Bagg during his routine, when Dick allegedly got out of his seat, jumped onstage and began joking with Bagg. The subject of Michael Richards came up, but the two comics quickly moved past it. As Dick exited the stage, he suddenly grabbed the mic and shouted at the crowd, "You're all a bunch of niggers!"

The stunned crowd gasped and stared at each other. Bagg tried to play it cool and move on with his set, but the laughs weren't there.

Calls to Dick's rep were not immediately returned.

UPDATE: TMZ has received a statement from The Improv acknowledging the incident: "The Improv is aware of Andy Dick's behavior on Saturday night. Our policy is that material deemed offensive by both famous and up and coming comedians is judged on a case by case basis. In this particular case, Mr. Dick was commenting on a current event. Was it intelligent? No. Was it funny? No. But was it racist? No. It was not directed at any audience member in particular and although it was in bad taste -- it was a comment on the Michael Richards fiasco."

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1. So this is what the loser does to get attention drawn to himself? Go snort another line

Posted at 12:50PM on Dec 5th 2006 by liz

2. The guy's a moron. Further proof that some people are just innately incapable of learning. It isn't funny. It wasn't funny before, and it isn't funny now. The most important part of a comedic routine is arguably timing, and this is clearly lost on him.

Posted at 12:51PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Reality Check

3.
did andy dick come out of the closet yet?

Posted at 1:00PM on Dec 5th 2006 by ANDY loves DICK

4. F***ing racists!!!

Posted at 1:08PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Traycee

5. I hear ya Diane. Perhaps his behavior will cause people to become desensitized to all of this crap, just like they do to everyday murder and destroying the earth.

Posted at 1:13PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Dawn

6. Sticks and Stones my ASS - you think its ok to be a racist and to talk about stringing someone up from a tree while shouting racial slurs at them? Its not cool and its not funny.

Posted at 1:14PM on Dec 5th 2006 by daGspotblog

7. ANDY DICK..IS A DICK...ENOUGH SAID!

Posted at 1:16PM on Dec 5th 2006 by MS. ROCIO IN THE LBC...

8. Diane, way to defend being ignorant. Its almost as if white trash like you say:

"Learn to live with it, because I am the bigger victim for even having to comment on it."

A contest into who is the bigger victim.... I will have to say it would be your parents, for having to raise a spoiled C*nt like you.

But since you encourage name calling, I wouldnt expect you to write back all offended. You should be over it already.

Posted at 1:19PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Arctic Kat

9. Who cares? Enough with this already. People of ALL races use the N word, I don't know why this is so shocking...It's OK for black people to make fun of whites though, right? People laugh when a black person makes fun of whites. N*gger is not just a black word, look it up in the dictionary...Black people call each other that all the time. God forbid a white person uses it. Who makes up these rules????

Posted at 1:20PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Not Racist...

10. I think it was very funny.

Posted at 1:20PM on Dec 5th 2006 by nuggy

11. Andy Dick is a poster boy for bi-polar disorder. He should talk to Robert Downey Jr. about how it affected his life. Then, he needs to get on some damn meds instead of self medicating with cocaine. That should be good - for a start.

Posted at 1:21PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Jenny

12. Andy Dick is a poster boy for bi-polar disorder. He should talk to Robert Downey Jr. about how it affected his life. Then, he needs to get on some damn meds instead of self medicating with cocaine. That should be good - for a start.

Posted at 1:21PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Jenny

13. ITS A JOKE...Parady of M. Richards!!! get it.... jeez

Posted at 1:24PM on Dec 5th 2006 by Jon

14. DUMBASS LOSER

Posted at 1:28PM on Dec 5th 2006 by shane reynolds

15. I think Andy Dick and Kathy Griffin are really the same person. They're both ugly motherf***ers.

Posted at 1:34PM on Dec 5th 2006 by STEVE

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