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Kramer Turns Racist Rant Into a Joke

Posted Nov 17th 2009 12:40PM by TMZ Staff

Three years ago today, Michael Richards took the stage at the Laugh Factory and unleashed the racist tirade that would change his life forever -- but now he's turning the whole thing into a joke ... arguably inappropriate.



Richards made light of the rant on this weekend's episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." During one of the scenes, Richards -- playing himself -- blows his top at an African-American character, saying, "If only there were a horrible name that I could call you ... that would make you as angry as I am."

A group of spectators who witness the tirade instantly whip out their cell phones and begin to record. Richards, realizing the similarity of events, screams and bolts.

Couple of problems here: First off, the original tirade was shot on a DIGITAL CAMERA -- not a cell phone.

Second: Is Richards mocking himself ... or the digital-recording culture that exposed his greatest mistake? In other words, is Richards and "Curb" trying to make a bad joke out of a serious situation?

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Tags: kramer, michael richards, MichaelRichards, seinfeld

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1. FIRST

always wanted to do that

Posted at 12:48PM on Nov 17th 2009 by American

2. Um, that's actually pretty funny.

Posted at 12:48PM on Nov 17th 2009 by Juanschwartz

3. What's inappropriate is airing Harvey's response to Erin Andrews tape that was recently taken.

Posted at 12:50PM on Nov 17th 2009 by biigred

4. Why's everyone always so hard on Harvey? Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny. Richards was trying to make fun of himself. Or so it appeared to me anyway.

Posted at 12:52PM on Nov 17th 2009 by crash

5. Let it go already.oh crap here comes al sharpton!Run white man run,He has another black girl lying, saying kramer raped her while say the n word!

Posted at 12:54PM on Nov 17th 2009 by MANNYYG

6. Tragedy + Time = Comedy

Posted at 12:54PM on Nov 17th 2009 by GBREAD

7. Get a sense of humor. It was great. You have to understand the history of the show and the context. Since when did TMZ and especially Harvey become so self righteous.

Posted at 12:55PM on Nov 17th 2009 by yaya

8. That Kramer be alright!

Posted at 12:55PM on Nov 17th 2009 by Tyrone Jefferson

9. meh, I thought it was funny....the p*ssy thing with the little girl on the other hand, was too gross, I didn't think it was funny at all

Posted at 12:56PM on Nov 17th 2009 by carac82

10.
How can making fun of yourself be considered inappropriate?

I will say this though: Curb Your Enthusiasm is too great a show for this guy and I don't know why he even had to revisit this.

Posted at 12:57PM on Nov 17th 2009 by shuffler

11. Curb is one of the funniest shows on TV and the episode was hilarious. Get the F over it, TMZ...

Posted at 12:57PM on Nov 17th 2009 by Danielle

12. That was hilarious! If he can't make fun of himself, what the heck's wrong w/people. Oversensitive, attention mongering, insincere outrage is inappropriate!! Wasn't it 'curb' that had someone urinating on an image of Jesus? That's WAY more inappropriate than this clip (and WAY more un-funny)!

Posted at 12:58PM on Nov 17th 2009 by MoreToLife

13. LOL!!!! His "greatest" mistake?!?!?!?!!? Are you freakin' douchebag TMZ Nazis really this insane?!?!!?!? Do you really think anyone in their right mind would consider calling a group of rude, inconsiderate morons the APPROPRIATE name, their GREATEST mistake? You quacks sure do hold terminology up to a high regard. Most NORMAL people would consider family or friend decisions they did or didn't make over life, their biggest mistake. Not something this miniscule.

You ridiculous, hypocritical, PC police, liberal nutcases there are TMZ, who only nitpick what you want to try and exploit it so it fits your Nazi agenda, have made me a fan of this guy.

Go Michael!!! Speak your mind, BROTHA!!!

Posted at 1:05PM on Nov 17th 2009 by bawhahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!

14. Just when I thought it would be impossible for the radical inbred kooks at TMZ to do or say anything even more absurd regarding race.

Say, why don't you hypocrites report on Eddie Griffin's FAR more racist remarks he makes regularly?

Posted at 1:06PM on Nov 17th 2009 by hairy

15. I think "Curb" was very funny. One of the funniest shows I've every seen. And Larry David is a brilliant writer...although I've read the cast just works from his outline. The Michael Richards dialogue was very funny.

Posted at 1:06PM on Nov 17th 2009 by Mike Process

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