Who played Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld?

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Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor, three-time Emmy Award winner, writer, producer, and comedian, Master Freemason. best known for playing Cosmo Kramer on the television show Seinfeld, which ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, on NBC.

Michael Richards was born in Culver City, California, to William Richards, an electrical engineer, and Phyllis Nardozzi, a medical records librarian. Richards was brought up with no specific religious tradition. He attended the California Institute of the Arts but received a BA degree in drama from The Evergreen State College in 1975. He also had a short-lived Improv act with Ed Begley, Jr. during this period. Enrolled at Los Angeles Valley College, he continued to dominate student productions. He later said: "I am grateful that the public schools introduced me to the performing arts." He was drafted during the Vietnam War and stationed in Germany as one of the co-directors of the V Corps Training Road Show. He produced and directed shows dealing with race relations and drug abuse; "This was a successful, educational operation, boosting the morale of our men and incorporating the arts into the service." He then spent two years in the Army developing educational skits and a couple more years "finding himself" at a commune in the Santa Clara Mountains; he drove a bus and developed a stand-up comedy act in 1979

In the same year, he was cast as Cosmo Kramer (based on the real-life Kenny Kramer) in the NBC television series Seinfeld, which was created by fellow Fridays cast member Larry David and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Although it got off to a slow start, by the mid-1990s, the show had become one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. The series ended its nine-year run in 1998 at #1 in the Nielsen Ratings.

Richards recently found himself in a hot water over racial epitaphs during a recent standup routine at an LA comedy club (video at tmz.com).

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.

During a November 20, 2006, satellite appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman (with Jerry Seinfeld as the pre-booked guest), Richards apologized, saying, "For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry... I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this." He described his outburst as one of "pure rage." Richards told Letterman that he was trying to undermine the hecklers by being more outrageous, but his approach backfired. Richards also stated that he returned to the stage to apologize but, by that time, most of the audience had already left.

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Michael Richards

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Michael Richards

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Michael Richards

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Michael Richards

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Michael Richards.

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His name is Michael Richards

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Michael Richards the guy who was recently in the hot seat for making racial slurs at audience members who were talking while he was doing stand-up. He made a so-called apology on David Letterman when Jerry Seinfeld was there.

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michael richards. the rest of the cast was jerry seinfeld, jason alexander, julia louis-dreyfus and wayne knight (newman)

Answer 10

If you don't know you had to have been in a coma for the last two weeks. That's about the only thing that has been on the news.