MICHAEL RICHARDS BLAMES SIMPSON AND MURDOCH FOR ONSTAGE DEBACLE

Michael Richards, the comedian best known as Seinfeld’s “Kramer,” has sparked a firestorm for unleashing racial epithets onstage at a Los Angeles comedy club. He said remorsefully, “I am not a racist. When I was onstage, I was upset, thinking about O.J. writing that book and how he was getting a two-night TV special and that no one has offered me a TV special, and I’m funny. Anyway, right at the moment I was thinking how funny I was, an African American yelled out at me that I wasn’t funny, and I lashed out against him. When I told him that 50 years ago, we'd have him upside down with a f***ing fork up his ass,’ I was referring to O.J.—the murderer that Fox was going to reward with a two-night TV special that I would have killed for. As I seek anger management, my deepest apologies go out to the audience, the Goldmans and the Brown family.”