Every other comedian who's gotten any pushback disappears for a month or two before popping back up with a handful of specials about how oppressed they are, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of Mike since The Incident.
Furthermore he's about to turn 72. That's not really the age most people decide to break back into entertainment.
i mean he probably gets a dickload of money from seinfeld so i doubt he actually needs to be in the public to make money
He was in comedians in cars getting coffee. That's the most recent time i've seen him, i think.
comedians in cars getting coffee
The first time somebody mentioned that - I was 98% sure it was a joke. And then I googled. Even though it was years ago - I still can't believe it's not a joke.
Seinfeld is the luckiest man alive. His entire shtick consists of stuff like... "She had man hands. Big. Like a man." and "What’s the deal with lampshades? I mean if it’s a lamp, why do you want shade?" Google says his net worth is $950 million.
But I do really love yada-yada.
When you look at old media, you have to consider the timeline. Today it might seem contrived, obvious, and ordinary, but for its run, it was well ahead of the available media at the time. And an important building block for future comedy.
Seinfeld the show changed the sitcom era-- most sitcoms then were based around flawed characters who learned their lesson by the end of the 23 minute episode. Seinfeld was full of flawed characters, who ultimately didn't learn their lesson, the humor was them being left in their own self-created mess to twist in the wind. Watching them have to deal with the consequences of their selfish or impulsive actions.
At first, it was mostly observational humor of universal human character flaws-- petty, narsasitic, shallow, and self-involved, the humor of those observations sure, but the big payoff was the consequences of embracing those human flaws to a fault.
And as the show gained popularity, it evolved to a form of meta humor and self awareness not often associated with TV sitcoms. Consider the plot arc where Jerry was pitching a show to NBC thats clearly a parody of the very same show Seinfeld. Self-referential was new back then.
Shows like Its Always Sunny wouldn't exist without Seinfeld as a predecessor. Still, the fact Seinfeld is almost a billionaire is ridiculous.
That's why I get so upset about Garfield and Jim Davis getting an ironic pass free of criticism in leftist memes. Jim Davis is basically a billionaire but no leftist rakes him through the coals because we were stockholm syndromed by a cartoon that was never funny in the first place. Death to Jim Davis, death to Garfield, death to Tyrants.
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everyone thought it was a joke so they just laughed at it.
What was a joke, the apology? Because him losing his head was definitely not him joking around.
well for one compared to like louis ck there was direct video evidence of his wrongdoing, so people couldn't rly equivocate like in a "he said, she said" situation
Also, it's not like it was an edgy joke of an off-hand comment. He repeatedly called someone a slur with the clear intent to offend. No plausible deniability of irony, just very clear racism.
He has a new movie coming where he plays a pedophile hunter or something
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I did a double take when I saw that trailer, real joker hours
That video was genuinely unsettling.
I always wondered who had that idea, if it was Spacey himself or his manager, I don't know which would be worse
So wait. Cause he actually just shut up... does that make him one of thr good ones?
myb theres a comedin n cars w/ cofees tht hz him & he sems resmoresful bt culd be an akt who cn say
After Seinfeld ended, Richards has not really been in a lot. Wikipedia lists eight movie or television appearances (most of which are cameos or guest roles) since 1998, when the show ended. This includes main roles in The Michael Richards Show and Kirstie, each of which got cancelled after one season.
He has, and likely still does, make good money off Seinfeld. If he didn't have the incident, he likely would have had a career like Jason Alexander, where he would do guest or minor roles that brought attention to them, only perhaps less frequently.
Jason Alexander is pretty alright at least. He's a big lib but definitely has some correct things going on in his head
With Alexander, what I was getting at was that most of his post-Seinfeld roles have been guest or minor roles. They may not be one-shot or note characters, but they are not who the program is based around. In either case, people recognize Alexander and know who he is.
Eh, I think there's a decent number of celebrities who's careers have been negatively affected by them getting busted doing some dumb/fucked up shit. It's just that it almost never actually negatively affects their careers that much, once you pass a certain threshold of fame it seems nothings really ever going to reduce you to a pauper, just a less successful famous guy.
As a side note, I've never found the whole "cancel culture doesn't exist" argument to be a very good one in debates with chuds. It always came off weird to me, like I thought we on the left actually DO want to hold public figures accountable for the shit they do, our response to the right criticizing us for that was to basically go "oh don't worry, it never actually works so don't worry about it". Even if we could prove that was true the right could just pivot to saying "okay but you WANT to do it, which is also bad". Like imagine if there was a debate between someone who supported the death penalty and someone who didn't and the former person's whole argument was "don't worry judges almost never actually give people the death penalty these days", uh, okay, so why not go ahead and abolish it then, if the only defense of it is that it never actually happens what's the point of supporting it? Always felt it would have been a better position to just stick to our guns and say "cancel culture is good actually".
His career was dead anyway that there really wouldn't be a market for a Michael Richards comeback that doesn't involve the rest of the Seinfeld cast, but I don't think he wants to return to the limelight that much. In all of his appearances since the meltdown, he seems extremely distraught about everything. Almost PTSD like, he acts like a veteran who killed a guy in war. And that's not that much of a stretch, psychologically, since what he did was more than just call a guy the N-word - he screamed violent threats at the top of his lungs. Even if he was a racist before that incident, I doubt he knew that any part of his racism was of the vicious Klansman variety. I don't think he's in a mental state to allow himself to become famous again.
Despite everything, he's still a multimillionaire at the end of the day. He'll be fine. And if another Seinfeld reunion happens, he'll be welcomed back and I'd imagine the public would demand a re-cancellation. I don't recall much outrage when he did the reunion on Curb, though they did lampshade the incident.
