Wow, did you see that clip of Michael Richards totally losing it at the comedy club in Hollywood? I thought maybe he just let slip a racial slur and that was it. But no, he was using the F word and N word quite liberally. When I watched the clip (easily found on YouTube), I was kind of waiting for the moment when it turns out it was just all a performance piece (he was involved in an infamous Andy Kaufman meltdown that was indeed staged). But there was no punch line, just the site of this guy on stage yelling out racial slurs.
He can't say he was drunk like Mel Gibson. He can't say that "the tape didn't tell the whole story." I mean, it's all there. He's yelling at two blacks and saying how he's lucky they aren't being hung upside down with a fork stuck in 'em, like they would've been 50 years ago. He then went on David Letterman via satellite and that had to be one of the most uncomfortable moments I've ever watched. He was just so uncomfortable, and then his apology went off in a different direction and he started talking about Hurricane Katrina (ah ha, it's all Bush's fault!). Pretty lame. Not that Michael Richards really has a career to worry about, but he'll have a hard time recovering from this one. Of course, I'm sure he's doing okay collecting those royalty checks from Seinfeld being in syndication and the DVD sales.
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