Don't get discouraged. I hope and believe that the idiots here defending Kramer are a small minority of conservatives. What Michael Richards did was disgusting on a human level, and stupid and idiotic on a professional level. It was even wrong from a comedic standpoint, as it wasn't funny in the slightest, and only made him seem unskilled at handling hecklers and being quick with the wit. Richards will be known forevermore as a moron.
When you are being heckled about being a bad comedian, you respond to the heckler as a man, not as a black man, unless you are a racist who believes that black men are not allowed to have opinions about white comedians. To bring lynching into it, not just epithats, was horrible. The heckler's response, "that's uncalled for", seems measured, and his tone remained calm throughout most of it, compared to Richards', who sounded like a lunatic.
Too bad. I love the Kramer character in that show. It will be hard to separate him from his disgusting real world person from here on.
"Too bad. I love the Kramer character in that show. It will be hard to separate him from his disgusting real world person from here on."
I thought the show was hilarious, but I always sensed that I wouldn't like any of those actors in real life. Larry David, the co-creator, also seems to be a very prickly type.