Michael Richards opens up about why he cancelled himself after that infamous club incident and how he is still carrying the weight of it today. I would have folded under that kind of public pressure instantly. Michael Richards: I cancelled myself. You don't need to take me out. I'll... take myself out. I'll save you the trouble. Accountability is rare, even if it took years to get there.show more

The 2006 incident was ugly and rightfully condemned

I thought all is fair in war and comedy? What changed?

@movie_plugs Man, this is heavy. You can really see it still weighs on him after all these years. Respect for him owning it and saying he basically cancelled himself. That takes guts to admit out loud.

@movie_plugs I know other comedians that would have pulled same thing as him but won’t do that to themselves

So people actually hate themselves this much to the extent of destroying themselves

Well you don’t know what he went through after that night

His episode on comedians in cars getting coffee was very sad. You could see how much pain he’s been living with because of that that one moment. I hope he realizes everyone loves him.

Well he brought all that to himself with that outburst that very night

@Geeeeemen Those Ns deserved what they got. Richards did nothing wrong.

@stanleemichaels I wouldn’t say that. He definitely did something wrong.

I think Michael Richards did that rant one night so that he could cancel himself and everybody would leave him alone because he was tired of being in the spotlight. It worked. But now he wants some more money by selling a book. Okay michael, damage control time.

Lol to what end?

I think he was tired of being Kramer in public all the time. Every time anybody saw him they probably walked up and started residing his bits, and quite often did them very poorly. At one point he was probably talking to Jerry about faking his own death.

@stanleemichaels There’s probably a million better ways to stay out of the spotlight than this

@stanleemichaels Yes, there could be a million other ways of doing this but, this is the way that I think he chose to do it. The rest of you want a white man to say he's a racist. You left Wingers are so hung up on that word. Yet, I think that you're all racist.

@nickc2189 @stanleemichaels I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you need to be checked for mental retardation

@nickc2189 @stanleemichaels Oh no, what am I going to do. Let me guess? You need to say that Michael Richards is a racist. You love to be able to call people racist and then hope that you find out that they might be a racist. Did I forget anything?

Soooo, “rape” made him say the “N” word???? If he doesn’t get the fk on!

Oh god, more white self-victimization to bandage racism, show pity to the actual victims

“Turned inward” threw me for a loop lol

Hard to feel sorry for a guy that called a black man a “nigger” multiple times because he was frustrated. Richards literally said years ago the guy would be hanging from a tree. That is as racist as it gets. Then to come out and claim he’s not a racist was pure comedy. He earned his misery all on his own… 🤷

Staged bullshit interview

I love Kramer but I'm pretty sure he actually was cancelled by the public... He can tell himself whatever he wants though.

“He turned inward”

It’s a word. Let it go. So sick of this division nonsense.

ET scheduling the Kramer interview with a black woman

Apology tour means he wants back in the industry. So he’ll sob until they let him back in

He didn’t cancel himself by any stretch of the imagination. This was national news and dragged out by Jerry making him immediately go on letterman to apologize. He was a laughing stock and condemned. Just because he hid doesn’t mean people accepted him.

This behavior is actually more pathetic than the original behavior That got him in trouble. You said it Bro just fucking own. it at least half the people would like you. Now nobody does.

The breakdown after he talked about the "rape" seemed fake asf

This is phony but what he did holds up 2026. 🤣

@chazmichaelmik Till tomorrow wym 😭🤣🤣

I feel like newman would have been the virulently racist one

Isn’t he?🤔

Nobody cares anymore!

He said words, who gives a fuck.

“I’ve been angry before but I’ve never gone to race” bull fucking shit

Once he excused his rant by saying he was a rape baby I lost all hope in him with them fake ass crocodile tears. You could tell he hasn’t been acting in a good while because those tears didn’t look believable at all. Fuck this guy

We need a Michael Richards roast

michael did nothing wrong. he just hit the fatigue level quicker than the rest of us.

He picked 2 non threatening blacks to attack. He would have been pulling the mic stand out of his mouth if he tried that with me. Now he’s trying to play the “heavy hearted reformed racist” role, pure bullshit

He turned what?!

He meant that ish. Kanye gets banned from an entire country, but this MF gets a welcome back parade. "50yrs ago we'd have fork up your ass" how quickly he forgets that 80yrs ago he'd be in an oven set to broil. Fk him, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Elder for coddling this racist MF.

When is society going to make it normal and common to forgive people? He deserves forgiveness. Not everyone takes responsibility for their actions.

“He turned inward” being captioned as “he turned n-word” is fucking incredible holy shit

Dude GET OVER IT. It was one outburst after they were being loud and rude. Raking himself over the coals for years and the left can sense it and just love dragging him over and over like he’s a murderer. Tell them to fuck off and be done with it.

Black people are so fragile.

Michael Richards is not white. He is ✡️ He's also a good method actor. This stunt where he cries for the camera is just him method actor. He is nothing more than a racist has-been actor who had a popular show on network TV, 25 years back.