i want to know exactly what he said, i have been hearing about this for a while and i am dying of curiosity!!!
2006-11-28 02:55:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
i just saw it, wow, what a racist bastard!
2006-11-28 03:05:44 · update #1
Dogboy i feel for you, that must have been some show!
2006-11-28 03:10:59 · update #2
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3s24kB7IM
Bad bad move by this guy... and then he did the "dug a hole, and ended up digging it deeper trying to get out"
2006-11-28 02:57:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
During a November 17, 2006, stand-up comedy routine at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, California, Richards responded to a black heckler with racially charged comments, yelling, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside-down with a ******* fork up your ***" (a reference to lynching ) and repeatedly shouting "He's a ******!" The heckler responded by repeatedly saying "That was uncalled for!" before calling Richards a "******* cracker-*** ************" and "******* white boy." The incident ended when Richards walked off of the stage, leaving an employee from The Laugh Factory apologizing afterward. Although Richards performed at The Laugh Factory the following night without incident , the company has since stated that Richards is no longer welcome at the venue.
2006-11-28 10:58:51 · answer #2 · answered by epbr123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
from the clips I saw, he used the N word, in a very negative way.
Its not ok to do that. He is paying for it now and she should be, he might not work as an actor again. Maybe he deserves it too.
Even in a comedy club, hate speech is not OK.
Slavery times were not that long ago and racism is still very much alive here in the US. No excuse for it.
2006-11-28 10:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kramer pipes up with the n-word
Former Seinfeld star Michael Richards stunned a comedy club audience, shouting racial insults at people who made fun of him during his performance, it was reported.
The 57-year-old actor-comedian, best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's eccentric neighbour Kramer on the hit TV show, was performing at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles on Friday night when he started the insults, according to video posted on entertainment website TMZ.com.
The tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny.
Richards answered: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f--king fork up your ****."
He paced across the stage taunting the men for interrupting his show.
"You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now mother-f--ker. Throw his **** out. He's a ******!" Richards shouted before repeating the racial insult over and over again.
An audience member heckled back: "That was uncalled for, you f--king cracker-*** motherf--ker."
Richards retorted: "Cracker-***? You calling me cracker-***, ******?"
While there was some audible chuckling in the audience, someone could be heard gasping, "Oh my God."
Another audience member is heard to call out: "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 immediately returned early today.
He refused to comment on-camera when reached by CNN, but the news network reported that he said off-camera he felt sorry for what had happened and had made amends.
Former co-star Jerry 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.
Comic Paul Rodriguez, who was at the club, said he thought Richards' remarks crossed the line.
"Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining," he said.
"Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations."
Comedian George Lopez told Los Angeles television station KTLA that he thought Richards' lack of stand-up experience may have been a factor.
"The question is you have an actor who is trying to be a comedian who doesn't know what to do when an audience is disruptive," Lopez said.
"He's an actor whose show has been off the air, he shouldn't ever be on a stand-up gig."
2006-11-28 10:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by wvucountryroads 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Go to www.youtube.com and search for Michael Richards. It has the whole thing taped.It was ugly. But both sides are to blame. Good luck.
2006-11-28 10:59:01 · answer #5 · answered by looloo1122 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He viciuosly used the N word. Yes, that one.
2006-11-28 10:57:27 · answer #6 · answered by lolabunny 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically he just threw whatever little bit of his career that he had left...
2006-11-28 10:59:45 · answer #7 · answered by .·:*¨♡ Mz Independent ♡¨*:·. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he said "STFU, if this was the old days, we would hang you and stick a fork up your ***" then, called the heckler ****** several times.
2006-11-28 10:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by gr 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he said the "n" word, referring to people of color
2006-11-28 11:08:17 · answer #9 · answered by Dogboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
here's a link to a video
http://www.filecabi.net/video/kramer-racist.html
2006-11-28 10:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋