Kramer
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LOS ANGELES — Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, their lawyer said Friday.
The men, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss, said they were part of a group of about 20 people who had gathered at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory to celebrate a friend's birthday. According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, they were ordering drinks when Richards berated them for interrupting his act.
When one of the group replied that he wasn't funny, Richards launched into a string of obscenities and racial epithets. A video cellphone captured the outburst.
Richards, who played Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," made a nationally televised apology on the "Late Show with David Letterman" this week. He has since apologized to civil-rights leaders the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
But Allred complained Friday that he "has not apologized to his victims directly, face to face, man to man."
Richards' publicist said his client wants to apologize to both men, who are black, but hasn't been able to locate them.
Allred, speaking by phone from Colorado, said Richards should meet McBride and Doss in front of a retired judge to "acknowledge his behavior and to apologize to them" and allow the judge to decide on monetary compensation. She did not specify a figure.
"Our clients were vulnerable," Allred said. "He singled them out and he taunted them, and he did it in a closed room where they were captive."
Richards' publicist said the comic wasn't considering any demand for payment.
The men, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss, said they were part of a group of about 20 people who had gathered at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory to celebrate a friend's birthday. According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, they were ordering drinks when Richards berated them for interrupting his act.
When one of the group replied that he wasn't funny, Richards launched into a string of obscenities and racial epithets. A video cellphone captured the outburst.
Richards, who played Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," made a nationally televised apology on the "Late Show with David Letterman" this week. He has since apologized to civil-rights leaders the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
But Allred complained Friday that he "has not apologized to his victims directly, face to face, man to man."
Richards' publicist said his client wants to apologize to both men, who are black, but hasn't been able to locate them.
Allred, speaking by phone from Colorado, said Richards should meet McBride and Doss in front of a retired judge to "acknowledge his behavior and to apologize to them" and allow the judge to decide on monetary compensation. She did not specify a figure.
"Our clients were vulnerable," Allred said. "He singled them out and he taunted them, and he did it in a closed room where they were captive."
Richards' publicist said the comic wasn't considering any demand for payment.
Ok give me a fucking break. He apologized to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Why, were they in the crowd at the time? Why on God's green Earth would Richards agree to meet these two in front of a retired judge to discuss monetary compensation?
The clients were vulnerable in a closed room? I suppose that those doors at the back of the room must have been locked and Richards was also wielding a gun to hold them captive. It was low that Richards when there, but these guys are just ridiculous now. I hope he doesn't give them ****.