Jerry Seinfeld and Michael Richards - "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" 

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Wow. Simple, intelligent kindness.

🦝

Amen!

But it's not even making a mistake..saying a word isn't a mistake.

That's cuz on the show they're meant to be funny and appeal to our humor as selfish individuals

@@natevm7888 Yyyyeah we get it lmao 😂 but I bet you’re a ton of fun at parties.

Lol true! 🎉😂

So true! 🤣😂

He's also a pedophile lolololol

You can see by the look in his eyes, he looks terrified. I couldn't figure out why at first, because I figured there was no way they were going to talk about "the incident", but nope, that's what I was seeing. He knew he was going to bring it up and was positively freaking.

Yeah, Michael seems like a sincere guy. Time to set the baggage down, as Jerry says. Too bad the haters can't let it go, as well.

Yea, it was a messed up situation. But we all lash out sometimes to one degree or another and make mistakes and say things we regret. Knowing even a small percent of what that is like for oneself, just escalate 10 fold just because your a known actor/artist or comedian, whatever. Put the bag down Michael.

Dude tried to get shock laughs off the N word and now it's supposed to be some deep revelation or something lol both these guys suck

@@RPSamurai_Jon-Lynn well said all. At the time it made me think differently of him, as the years go by and I get older , having your worst blowup in public on camera, it will never go away, captured ..... Maybe we can look at his whole life instead of just that one yes horrible moment and judge him by that.

I think this comment should be at the top. Especially for all the judgmental people saying this or that. In the end, we all make mistakes. We all fall, and most of us can do it quietly while we pick ourselves back up. Must be diffrent and difficult when you have a magnifying glass on you and every one knows who you are. I really don't think Mr. Richards is racist at all. He lashed out in anger and said something he regrets saying. We all have been there in one way or another.

@@joeyj5924 thanks! I feel exactly the same.🌻 He said horrible things, that are unacceptable on many more levels. Yet I was terribly angry in very few occasions as well. I yelled really bad stuff. Insults that were meant to hit maximally hard. 🙈 I was like a hurt animal, furious, sad and blind. If you judge me by these - maybe - 5 days of 36 years on this planet, I'm probably in the top 20 of worst people ever. 😄 And if you really think that you never crossed any kind of line like this, I have trouble taking you serious. 😊

@@bochica3562 you're welcome, and exactly 💯!!! I've of course been there myself. Sometimes we try to say the most painful thing to someone who has caused us pain to try and get under their skin, and of course later on, we regret it. Sometimes instantly lol. We are human ♥️ we make mistakes and we either learn from them or repeat them until we do.

Yeah we would all be cancelled for life if we had to show our worst moment on tape (if it was recorded) at every job interview😂

@@epicon6 I like the idea though... on a job interview. 😂 If everyone had to share these moments in different social occasions, it'd be almost therapeutic. 😄

I suppose there's some truth in that, but really, Jerry has enough money ( and everything else in life) to not have to really care if people get upset with him. He's actually pretty disdainful about most people, anyway.

Michael Richards is worth $30M...if that's rock bottom, how do I get there?

It was a million to one shot doc, million to one!

Yeah him and Bob Sacamano are his best buddies.

We'll never know if these guys are truly into solidarity. Let's be real : I wouldn't count on them....

@ Jay M - I guess you must think Anthony Hopkins is an absolute genius as he is nothing like the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in real life.

@@ronnie_5150 I do think Anthony Hopkins is a genius. Although I beg to differ that he is nothing like Hannibal Lecter. Have you see his instagram? He's a little cuckoo.

@@jaym3566 yea his instagram is not an act at all.... errrr

@@jaym3566 Richards is an actor. He's not a comedian. He acts out what is given to him. He never wrote ANY of the material 'Kramer' did. The show Seinfeld had a team of 16 writers.

@@ronnie_5150 he's a comedian. Standup artist and was a regular on carson at tv before seinfeld

People make mistakes...

True

@@MeadeJ67 A mistake is not seeing a stop sign behind a tree. The N word doesn't just magically come out if it's not already in you. From a black person who has befriended people of other races, I know how it is as soon as they get angry, out pops the N word. It some people's go-to.

Funny how the people who crashed the show late and behaved like ignorant peasants, came in for absolutely no criticism. Michael Richards slipped up, no doubt, but the fact none of you have attacked the people who caused the whole situation speaks volumes of this ultra woke hyper-fearful time in which we live.

I believe that the 'woke' approach would be to acknowledge the role played by trouble makers to give the situation some context. Being asked to play the same character over and over again when you're trying to move on creatively probably also made him frustrated.

That's the kind of mistake that follows you forever. He showed his true colors and it turned out that he's not a good person.

@@party4keeps28 you keep your hand close to your chest 😉

@@bfc2155 😏

@@party4keeps28 he made one silly mistake and that isn’t who he is now, I believe. Try to show some compassion for someone.

@@makasete30 I have compassion for those that make honest mistakes. He showed that he's an actual racist. For that I have no compassion. No matter how angry I'd ever get with anyone I'd never bring race in to the equation. Think about this: If someone murders another in the heat of an emotional argument, the fact that they had the ability to murder someone shows their lack of character. That's also something I don't forgive. Everyone makes mistakes and I've personally made quite a few but I'd never, NEVER, cross certain lines and it's not because I can restrain myself, it's because I don't have to... Some things aren't a part of who I am and the same goes for my family and friends, no matter how angry we get.

Different time, it bet jerry would denounce him if it happened yesterday.

I love that you just called him “Kramer” lol🎉 cause that’s who he is!

Wdf does Jerry need to care about haters... he's worth like a quarter billion

@@LinguisticSugar More closer to $1B.

@Negus Negast no he hasn’t. He called out Dave after snl

yea, and jason alexander also.... julia was pretty damn good too.

Same with George, almost every line had a near perfect cadence but also effortless and became a quotable line

agreed. Costanza and Kramer are both equally gold jerry. gold.@@sean78745

@@256JustinianI agree about George but having to do that much body comedy requires a whole other level. He had line delivery PLUS body language...he was one of the few characters where you could say "Yes, I can see Kramer sleeping with a beautiful woman", but George was always a stretch.

@johnspence8141 lol he did sleep with Sarah Silverman so good point

I think you mean the Bowtie Killer?

You also saw it when Jerry showed up in Letterman right after it happened specifically to defend him. He could have taken flak for that but he didn’t care.

I feel like the a heel now so eh feel really really shittyyy

Unfortunately, many people - maybe most - are capable of saying something awful in anger that they don’t really believe to be true - just to push buttons in the other person.

This scene seemed staged.

It was black fragility that got him cancelled.

YFKM? Its totally staged and scripted! "Hey guys, just have a conversation, we'll record it and see where it goes...." Ya right! Simply count the number of cameras, they are surrounded. You a little gullible by chance?

@@lolahunter8851 they obviously know what topics they will hit on beforehand but that doesn't mean that the content of the conversation isn't true

​@@athmaid I did not say it wasn't true. I said it was staged and scripted which is the definition of 'acting'. Now can one act with true emotion, sure but its still acting.

Genuine? This is acting. His genuine self came out on stage years back lol.

it's fuckin scripted as hell

Such nice racist indeed.

@@DocRunawayur a buffoon he isn’t racist he passed in a heat of rage and he said he was wrong took it personally and said he shouldn’t have said it.

@@dominicg3316 funny; I've been angry too, everyone has, yet not everyone has resorted to racist slurs in such occasions. Being angry doesn't explain it.

@@DocRunaway funny; Because yes it does. He broke down and had a mental fit. You’re delusional. That’s all it was it wasn’t racially motivated stop crying

@@dominicg3316 it only explains it when you're a racist already and anger just opens the door. Sorry but you racists are way too easy to spot.

soup nazi type vibe

Me too Love the show

Same here, it’s a timeless show

My wife had never watched it... We're watching it on Netflix now and she LOVES Kramer.

My favourite sitcom of all time

I've always wanted to adopt a highway after watching this show

As long as you're a friend of his, allegedly. If you're an unwashed common regular person, there are countless stories of Jerry being a condescending asshole, unfortunately.

@@kennykistler6735 Indeed, that made me lose respect for him, unfortunately. Really liked the show but he seems to not be the most humble and likable person.

Jerry is very loyal to his friends and fellow comedians.

@@kennykistler6735 I’ve never heard this. Not doubting it could be true, but where did you hear this ? And by unwashed common unknown, are you referring to the extras that appeared on the show or just any unknown he encounters outside the show?

@@swjackson917 it's easy with those, doesn't show character

giving a sociopath the benefit of the doubt because you like his old show. nice 👍

​@@gordonlekfors2708Why a sociopath?? Have you never explosed in rage, you Holy Holiness?

@@gordonlekfors2708 imagine diagnosing people you’ve never met with complex psychological conditions 😂 the internet is wild

Chad Harley - Beautifully said and such a perceptive insight!

i come back to this video often. It captures the spirit of "humble contrition" that is difficult to be in but I think keeps us human. Love seeing the bond here between them as well - we all need this during our worst moments.

You'd no longer be my friend if you went on a hardcore genuinely racist lash out unless I was racist as well.

@@PKDking you don't know him dude. You people act like anyone making a mistake is represented by their anger. He was super pissed, said horrible shit he knew would hurt those around him, and regrets it. Even if he was racist then, people change.

@@Wejrdfish1 I don't think repeatedly calling someone the most vile racist word in the English language counts as 'a mistake'. I've been plenty angry many times but that word would never come out of my mouth. You know who does use that word though? Racist assholes, that's who.

@@Wejrdfish1 People make mistakes but they also grow up, change. I think it's very dangerous to treat other people (celebrities or not) as infalible, are we supposed to hold ourselves to the same ridiculous standards?

@@dbradx yeah, i agree. I also agree people can act out of anger, and can change over 10 years.

To sum it up, we've forgiven him and moved on. HE. NEEDS. TO. DO. THE. SAME. ALREADY! Life is too damn short. (And I wish he'd make some type of comeback!).

Even if he's a changed man.... Public eye still sees him as a racist... Going to see a racist comedian could be a bad look for most ppl even if u think he's funny

@@TheTonytone77 plenty of people enjoy the controversy, or simply don't care.

i have to believe that alot of the seinfeld cast feel humiliated that jerry seinfeld is the only one in the show who ended up with hundreds of millions of dollars and the rest of the cast still had to work on other projects to pay the bills after the seinfeld sitcom ended .

@@jaygreenleaf3136 that's a new one... Interesting too.. The only type of ppl I could see watching a racist comedian would be southern far rightwings lol 😂

It was smart comedy. Brilliantly written and acted.

Brother those Seinfeld reruns never fail. You're gonna laugh, guaranteed.

watch peepshow from england....

@@doct0rnic you will miss out on something really funny

@@achimlangenkaemper4257 ok will check it out

Meh, he said what he said, wasn't a good call and it damaged his professional career. So they way I see it - he acted out, was punished. Case closed.

Amen

Lol, people never cease to amaze me

Was a bit more then a casual lash out though. Only thing that can take away some of the damage is if he gets active against racism or gets some diagnosis like Border line or heavy Bi-polar or something similar. But he never really shown any regret for what he said. He only regret that he did say it because he think it was unfair to him. That he was a victim that night. None of us are perfect. But he let out a special kind of demon that night..

It’s sad that a guy who spent decades of his life honing his craft, could be derailed by these people. If anything, they should’ve apologized to Michael, and the civilized paying audience, for being disruptively feral. The slave trade and its consequences have been a disaster for America and the human race. In 100 years Carnegie Hall will be renamed D’Carneggy Yall and repurposed as a basketball court.

uhm no. there is no coming back 😂

Cancel culture is so tough to beat right now though. People live for that shit

it will be hard to do , we live in a society now where people thrive on bringing other people down but rarely do they forgive and build people up

Ugh no his white ass can stay canceled

Hollywood is sadly shorthanded on actors who DON'T think they're the greatest. Michael was absolutely perfect for that role but didn't feel he was very funny, and has a hard time accepting genuine praise. For me it's impossible to imagine anyone else playing that part. Impossible.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere I can't agree with more. No one could be as good and perfect in that role. Comedic genius in that body of work. That he was admittedly insecure about it is surprising, even if many comedians say privately they struggle with peace and confidence.

@@michaeltoebe1851 Many comedians are tortured people that use comedy to cope with that torture (insecurity mainly). Many also deal with depression on a regular basis, like Steven Wright.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere That's so true. I've read that before. You did inform me on something new when you talked about Stephen Wright. I never knew he struggles with depression.

@@michaeltoebe1851 He mentioned it to Craig Ferguson on his Late Late Show once. He is great at one-liners.

Especially these days where you’re supposed to distance yourself from people who make mistakes otherwise you are guilty by association.

Jerry a REAL friend

@@thegoodgeneralWhere’s your evidence on that?

Well, to be fair, Jerry HAD to both disagree with Michael's behavior AND support him, because Jerry was trying to promote the DVD release of the show. Not to mention Michael could had done irreparable damage to the reputation and feeling about the show in perpetuity. Michael REALLY f***ed up. Jerry responded in the only ways he could have. He played both sides. To be honest, Michael didn't deserve it. What Mike did was totally over the top and uncalled for.

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@Miles Doyle racism is NEVER funny or appropriate. racist jokes shoudl NEVER been tolerated or accepted. and people who make racist jokes are horrible people that deserve to be shunned by society.

@@unknownkingdom look, it depends what side you're on. There was a time when we were finally moving on as a society, and you could make jokes bc the stereotypes were going away and people knew what was reality and what was a stupid stereotype that we could poke fun at older generations for having etc. I have never seen the full Michael clip. Idk what the rant was about. I get the feeling that he was trying to use the word ironically to hecklers that called out his stand-up... But it went from jest, to hurtful and that's the difference. I do believe he was trying to defend a defenseless act that he shouldn't have. I think he realizes this now... But does that mean he treats people of a different race with preconceived notions, or that he believes he's better by race... I don't think so... I honestly believe this was a hateful moment that he should feel bad about, but i do truly feel the hate was him trying to defend a bad act to the point of desperation and using that word.. i don't believe he actually treats people differently by race or sees them that way. I've noticed that people backed in corners make stupid arguments to try and win, with no rationality. I also believe in forgiveness and finding a way to peace. If he treats people differently by race, or indeed was showing his true colors.. then by all means. Shun him or whatever. But i also feel that backs people into corners where, they too, will echo how they're not forgiven or accepted and may make the problem worse. If someone has preconceived notions based on race, we should be correcting those people, not allow them to be mean to others and stand up for the victims of racism when they get knocked down. But if we just shun and end convo. It's only going to grow those types of racist people and reinforce bad and wrong ideas. Either way.. from what i saw... this guy was defending an act and used racism to try and win some point and i don't think he made it...

Really appreciate the balance in your comment

Its scripted.

Murder someone and serve your time you are out in 15 years yet say a bad word and it's forever? Seems a bit overkill to me. But what the heck lets add a whole list of transgressions that will get people banned for life, starting with pineapple on pizza.

It was good advice! That night he imploded because he’s ego was so bloated and fragile that he couldn’t take any criticism. In this episode he said to Jerry “We’re not normal people” for being famous so his ego still needs work. I don’t doubt his remorse but the heart never lies so I was glad Jerry taught him the selfless vs selfish perspective

💯

He’s an n word

He's acting here. What he did on stage wasn't acting, it was the real Richards. Of course he feels bad though... He messed up his career and legacy.

You feel sorry for the victims of his racist tirade? Or just feel sorry for a racist actually having consequences?

We don't. We aren't racist apologist

@@adeep187 There's a japanese saying I read recently. sarumo kikara ochiru "Even monkeys fall from trees". everyone makes mistakes.

Wellsaid, totally agree, thank you !

he's funny as Kramer but he's a sociopath. he proved that for sure 😂

If you have not seen it - UHF has a Michael Richards character named Stanley who will make you smile for sure.

He doesn’t need forgiveness. He was probably saying what he felt and that’s not a bad thing

He doesn’t need forgiveness… that dude was still trying to being a comedian even when he was getting heat…. That was funny as hell… he was on point for someone who just got disrespected

Yup no forgiveness needed.

I think its up to him if he wants to be forgiven or not.

@@userumbleandgettr4freespee501 We all need forgiveness. No one is perfect.

Even if Bill Cosby was found guilty, I would still watch the Cosby show because I can separate the character from the actor.

But there is a certain kind of mistake you never come back from. I don’t believe that should be the case BTW.

@@inspectorgadget346 Being racist isn't illegal, let alone doing a racist bit in a comedy show. Drugging and raping women is illegal.

Can agree with you more. I don't agree with what happened. But as you said we all make mistakes. He has the right to make a come back. The audience will decide whether they will accept it or not

@@east5871 he didn't make a mistake you can't come back from. Dude had a mental health crisis. It's crazy y'all can't realize this

" If he committed a crime, he has paid his dues and he should be released (or release himself) from this mental tortuous prison" ^^this^^ Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves--we ALL have burdens that we carry for years--or a lifetime; we (and I certainly include myself) need to cut ourselves a little slack now and then.

Love the Sen. Hate the Drake.

A mistake is leaving the microphone on accidentally. He revealed he was a cruel, even racist. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tW51lX_jlzA.html

I watch Seinfeld to this day

Every moment he's on screen is brilliant. Transylvania 6-5000 is one of my favorites.

stay away from his show at the laugh factory, worst set I've ever seen

He's not funny at all.

@@LizardTheWiz Worst? 🤣

Nope he jumped the shark and jerry can play forget about all he wants which gives an inside in to his mindset . Money and fame doesn’t breed character

He's not "broken".... Guarantee he doesn't lose a wink of sleep over that incident. If he does, it's over the loss of his career not because of what he said.

@@sandcastle1417 Of course he’s upset because his career was destroyed. Over WORDS. It’s insane.

@sule They are words. Get over it.

@sule It happened 14 years ago and he has sincerely apologized ever since. If society no longer accepts apologies, we are doomed.

The penn state Eisenhower auditorium would be a great place to have a show 👍 😀 Mike is the man ... if anyone got problems with Mike... they got problems with me !!!

FEED ME MOREEEEE

When r u going to aew

Agree beautiful

you just summed up my entire view on this with your comment, I'll always love the K-man :)

I'm a 90's kid and probably would have streamed seinfeld during covid or something if not for this incident. Im sure im not the only one who shares this sentiment. Yes he brought joy to millions at the time but I think this situation pushed away a lot of potential new viewers.

@@jstdun everyone is entitled to their opinion. I'll just say this, if your TV/movie viewing habits are based on the morality of the actors playing a particular role, you may want to do away with streaming services altogether. I'd suggest reading a book, but that opens up a whole 'nother can of worms!

@@MICHAEL_MAY_8 this is a fair point. The racist tirade is a different level of nastiness though. If I had just read about it, it wouldn't be as big of a deal. But the video footage is damning. If I had a similar caliber of evidence for any other actors I enjoy watching, I'd be saying the same thing.

Hunter Biden????

Good point

Exactly! Not just Richards but Bill Cosby too. Poor guys went through so much...

@@party4keeps28 lol

Just don't tell that to the religious...

I also refer to famous people by Mr. & Mrs. It's the same for anyone I don't personally "know"

Very well said

well said

It felt like I was eavesdropping on a very personal, private conversation.

Very well said

@Miles Doyle you need help

Jason Alexander was carrying the show half the time just with his acting ability.

Jerry was pretty good too.

I think Larry Charles and a few of the other writers definitely deserve some credit for helping create legs for the show.

Jason Alexander was the backbone of the comedy and the acting. What show did you watch?

It's Kramer. And this clip is not from 2006 lol

Good idea

It really wouldn't work. This show is frozen in time. It is best to keep it alone and remember it as it was.

There is a Seinfeld reunion in curb your enthusiasm that has like half an episode of Seinfeld baked into that is exactly what you are describing. I think it’s im season 7

Thanks for spoiling the ending ugh

I'm 16 and I watch it with my mom every night!

He is. Not because he is perfect as none of us are...but because he is beautifully imperfect and because he has such a big heart.

@Ziggy3339 ... I think so too .. 🙌

It wasn't just the one mistake. Michael's first mistake was trying to start a stand-up comedy career. He was never known as a stand-up and he wasn't very good at it. There are quite a few stories of him bombing on stage before that, although he didn't use racial epithets those times. He's a great comedic actor but for whatever reason after Seinfeld ended he didn't want to do that anymore. Personally, I think Michael's career is a cautionary tale of what happens when you try too hard to be something you're not.

@@PatrickPierceBateman Perhaps you're right. As a fan of the show Seinfeld, I put him up at the top of physical comedy actors.

'ruined for one mistake' is a pretty tame way of saying he pointed at a black dude and shouted "he's a n****r" over and over and over again. the fact that that is how he reacts when a black person upsets him means there is something deeper going on than just "making a mistake" one time. There needs to be a middle ground between completely downplaying what he did and completely writing him off as inhuman and unredeemable.

What's the mistake? Please educate me. What happened with Michael RichardsM

@@vinomsnake Google

Still makes me laugh after all these years.

The best no doubt 👌. Love them ❤. Larry David and the cast rock.

That's a very nice thing to say. And I agree.

This is well said. Not being able to give Michael a chance afterward and continuing to call him a racist 10 years after is akin to canceling people online. Whoever firmly believes he's still racist amuse me. Most of the time they seem to be people that won't accept the concept that others have the potential to understand their wrong-doings, change, and reenter society. It's been more than 10 years, and Michael hasn't said anything such as his tirade. He mentions regretting it in the video, but not like he's trying to telegraph it. I believe that this is just one of the small things that show how earnest he is. Each time he's admitted he was in the wrong. I've seen a few others mention him going onto a show to publically apologize, and many other instances if you find them. When he experienced his reality check, Michael understood what he did was wrong, and I'm sure has been working on himself ever since then. If he wasn't, we would probably know. How he acts now from watching the video reminds me of how an old friend of mine acted. He was on a troubled path, and broke down for a final time, letting a lot of terrible things out. He apologized and knew that he had to make things right. Leaving things as is would show the character that he was not. He didn't want to hurt anybody, and accidents happen. Accidents can become disasters. From whatever scale it may be, it's up to who caused it to decide how things go next before others do it for them. In the end, my friend had to move. By then though, he had completely flipped around the life he had fallen into. There were no hard feelings, and people remembered him not for how he acted then, but for what he did after.

What Michael did was way overblown. I think he was far harder on himself than the world was. Other celebrities have done far worse. He should have just publicly apologized and moved on.

@@almac9203 Exactly

Rdj did not do anything wrong, well not anything at this level

@@beenmicrophone5817 When you really break it down, people said bad words to Michael and then Michael said worse words to those people. That kind of crime, at most, should warrant some social repercussions for maybe a month or so in my opinion. certainly no longer than a year, let alone a decade. No matter how horrible the words are, I think we need to recognize that these are just noises that came out in the heat of the moment. It's very different to physical violence or threats.

@@Absjfirnsjd ohh dude, u get no argument from me on that one, I was jus saying that RDJ never ever needed a second chance

So, what did he do? No-one gives a damn about some blabber unless it's their shitty woke business. Most of virtue signallers are BS slimebags and pedos anyways. Who cares? Look at them modern TikTok liberals and the education system, built of Marxist organic trash crawling around with no regrets... There are MILLIONS waiting for communism to be finally placed on the same crime bar with nazism... And oh boy civil arrest would blossom - what a freakshow that would be facing the court. And there are many, many, who would call ANTIFA and its anarchist derivates like BLM and XR terror groups.

@@magnuskallas Yeah well see here's the thing... there's nothing immoral about being wrong or trying to argue your point of view when you are wrong. There is room for a marketplace of ideas and we shouldn't silence people even f they are wrong. All we can do is offer up our argument and vote... vote via ballot and vote via wallet. If we round up people for having the wrong ideas then we are really no better than Nazis and Bolsheviks. We have to look at what individuals have done and prosecute real crimes... murder, assault, theft, trespassing, break and enter etc. I am arguing for moderation because if we set the standard for behaviour to be moderate then the social norm becomes moderate and we can return to robust debate rather than violence. If we attempt to out-do the immoderate, we just create an arms race that benefits the power-hungry. When the Russian revolution kicked off... none of the original instigators ended up at the reins. Always the carpet-baggers.