That clip was hilarious. I had a feeling someone would do something like this. When I first saw the clip of Richards' exploding over a week ago: the thing I though was that it was a joke a la Andy Kaufman or something. I know he used to like to get the audience riled to the point of anger. In fact both Kaufman & Richards once did a scene for the Friday's live show which people though was real but was really just an act. I at first thought that the now so called Richards "Meltdown" was just another put on as that Friday's scene was in the past.
Richards would have come out of this much better if he had insisted that it WAS part of his act--a "botched joke" if you will. Hey, it worked for Jon Carry.