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.
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.
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.