In the latest example of a celebrity sticking his foot on his mouth, Michael Richards stunned a comedy club audience, shouting racial epithets at people who heckled him during a stand-up routine.
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The 57-year-old actor-comedian, best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit TV show Seinfeld, was performing at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood recently when he went into the verbal rampage.
A video posted on TMZ.com shows that the tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny.
He paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.
While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and various people "ooh" after Richards uses the n-word.
Eventually someone says: "It's not funny. That's why you're a reject, never had no shows, never had no movies. `Seinfeld,' that's it."
Richards performed the next night at the Laugh Factory without incident. Calls to Richards' representatives were not returned Monday.
He refused to comment on-camera when reached by CNN, but the network reported that he said off-camera he felt sorry for what had happened and had made amends.
Seinfeld issued a statement saying he was "sick over this."
"I'm sure Michael is also sick over this horrible, horrible mistake. It is so extremely offensive. I feel terrible for all the people who have been hurt," Seinfeld said.
And www.betED.com is giving bettors a chance to wager on what Richard?s next move will be, and whether any of his Seinfeld colleagues will follow suit with their own rant.
Among the many Proposition bets available at betED.com is ? Who will be the next Seinfeld star to be racist: Larry David (50/1); Jerry Seinfeld (150/1); Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2/1); Jason Alexander (5/1).
The 57-year-old actor-comedian, best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's eccentric neighbor Kramer on the hit TV show Seinfeld, was performing at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood recently when he went into the verbal rampage.
A video posted on TMZ.com shows that the tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny.
He paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show, peppering his speech with racial slurs and profanities.
While there is some chuckling in the audience throughout the outburst, someone can be heard gasping "Oh my God" and various people "ooh" after Richards uses the n-word.
Eventually someone says: "It's not funny. That's why you're a reject, never had no shows, never had no movies. `Seinfeld,' that's it."
Richards performed the next night at the Laugh Factory without incident. Calls to Richards' representatives were not returned Monday.
He refused to comment on-camera when reached by CNN, but the network reported that he said off-camera he felt sorry for what had happened and had made amends.
Seinfeld issued a statement saying he was "sick over this."
"I'm sure Michael is also sick over this horrible, horrible mistake. It is so extremely offensive. I feel terrible for all the people who have been hurt," Seinfeld said.
