but why heckle?? i understand heckling an athlete competing against your team. but a comic??? why??? making fun of a guy's career...a career that includes a stint as a key character on one of television's most acclaimed sitcoms, ever?? i'm not defending richards. he's a freaking idiot for respondng like he did. but i don't see a good guy on the other end, either.
He's ignorant. He needs our forgiveness for being so ignorant. He's lashing out because his career sucks, he can only get stand-up gigs, and he was being heckled by another race. It's the pits. I hope an apology is forthcoming.
JERRY: Hey! What is wrong with you?! TOBY: Me? Nothing's wrong with me. JERRY: You boo me?! You hiss?! You didn't stop blathering throughout the whole set! TOBY: Oh, come on! I thought you're a pro! That's part of the show. JERRY: No! Not part of the show! Booing and hissing are not part of the show! You boo puppets! You hiss villains in silent movies! TOBY: Well, that's the way I express myself. How are you gonna make it in this business if you can't take it? JERRY: Oh, I can take it.
I'm sure the fact that he can go down to the bank and withdraw many many millions of dollars helps with all that "no career after Seinfeld" stuff. He should have gone that route for a comeback instead of doing what he did. "I'm not funny? I've got 20 million sitting in the bank that says I am, how much do you have?" ANYTHING other than a racial temper tantrum that makes you look like a moronic ass. Aren't these guys supposed to have the whole heckler response thing planned out in advance? If I were a comedian, that's what I work out before I even started writing the material.
don knotts!!! come on man - d-knot rules! mr. ferley was pimp. what about the appledumplin' gang? if you have ever been on stage either as a comedian or a musician you have probably been heckled at some point. as a pro, he should have controlled himself better. i have been heckled on several occasions w/ bands i played with. i only responded once to hecklers, but i loved my rhetort - "hey man, i dont come to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth!". the room kind of tensed up and got quiet, but we went on to the next song and the heckler shut up. there's the classy way to handle it and than theres the kramer way. and sometimes heckling is a sign of affection - look at all those punk bands in the 70's - their fans would show their devotion by spitting luggies at the performers. when i used to play in san antonio we played a club called tacoland and the owner would only heckle you if he really liked you. we knew we made it when ram (R.I.P.) would yell "YOU SUCK" from behind the bar. and than after your set he would buy all your beers.
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There are a lot of very wealthy people that that can only get stand-up gigs, stand-up comedy is not a career alternative for people that can't be actors. Many comedians have no desire to be anything but comics, I am one of them. And my career doesn't suck. Celebrities think the job is easy. They think their lame ideas and antiquated references will translate into a career in stand-up, you've just seen how most of these wannabes look on stage, final results however may differ. Even though the staff of the club should have kicked the hecklers out (he said they had been talking all night), they did pay to see something funny on stage, and if dude wasn't getting it done he was wasting stage time for someone who could.
Tall, gangly, and curly-haired, Richards started out in Los Angeles theater, appearing in such pieces as Arthur Miller's "The American Clock" and "Wild Oats". In 1979 he began performing stand-up comedy on the L.A. club circuit. This experience helped prepare him for the role of an aged Chevy Chase on "The Billy Crystal Special". Richards then became an ensemble member on the comedy-variety series "Fridays". Another noteworthy cast member was future "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David. Richards went on to small turns in features and guest spots on TV on "Hill Street Blues", "Cheers" and "Miami Vice". With a gift for manic, restless, physical comedy, Richards' portrayal of Kramer, Jerry Seinfeld's neighbor on the sitcom "Seinfeld" (NBC, 1989-98), helped elevate the proceedings to the plane of the believably absurd. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800121539/bio This obviously involved more than just heckling...it was maybe the final straw of something that had been stirring inside him for awhile, I guess.
Wow! Yeah, unfortunately for him he probably just flushed whatever chance he had a resurrecting his acting career. I think he was initially joking with the hecklers, but the fact that he made it personal and went off on his tirade makes him look like a real ass.
