Michael Richards

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Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor, writer, television presenter, and retired comedian.

He began his career as a stand-up comedian, first making him well-known on Billy Crystal's first cable television special.

On ABC's Fridays, he went on to become a series regular.

He appeared on a number of television shows, such as Cheers, several times.

So I Married an Axe Murderer, Airheads, Young Doctors in Love, Problem Child, Coneheads, UHF, and Trial and Error, one of his few film roles, include So I Married an Axe Murderer, So I Married an Axe Murderer, One of his few film roles. He appeared on television sitcom Seinfeld from 1989 to 1998, receiving the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series three times.

During Seinfeld's reign, he made a guest appearance in Mad About You.

Richards appeared in his own sitcom The Michael Richards Show, which lasted less than a full season, after Seinfeld. Richards returned to stand-up comedy after Seinfeld's demise in 1998.

When performing at the Laugh Factory comedy club in late 2006, he ignited media outrage after a cell phone video of him launching into an expletive-laced racial tirade, causing early cancellations from a group of late-arriving attendees.

Subsequently, due to widespread media coverage of the case, he resigned from stand-up early in 2007.

For the first time since Seinfeld's demise, he appeared as himself in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as lampooning his experience at the Laugh Factory.

Richards appeared on television in 2013 as Frank in the sitcom Kirstie.

Early life

Richards was born in Culver City, California, to a Catholic family. He is the son of Phyllis (née Nardozzi), a medical records librarian of Italian descent, and William Richards, an electrical engineer of Scottish and English descent. When Michael was two years old and his mother never remarried, his father died in a car crash.

Richards attended Thousand Oaks High School. He appeared on The Dating Game in 1968, but he wasn't chosen for the time. In 1970, he was first recruited into the US Army. He trained as a medic and was stationed in West Germany, where he was a member of The Training Road Show, a drama group. After being honorably discharged, he used the G.I. Bill is enrolled in the California Institute of the Arts, while Susanne Heard earned a BA degree in drama from The Evergreen State College in 1975. During this time, he attended Los Angeles Valley College and continued to perform in student productions.

Personal life

Richards was married to Cathleen Lyons, a family therapist, for 18 years. Sophia is their one daughter. They divorced the following year after 1992 and reunited in 1992.

Richards married Beth Skipp in 2010. They have been together since 2002 and have one son.

Richards is a Freemason.

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Career

Richards made his first television appearance in Billy Crystal's first cable TV special in 1979. Larry David, a fellow cast member and author, appeared on ABC's Fridays television show in 1980, where he began as one of the cast members. It featured Andy Kaufman's scripted lines, prompting Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman, causing him to drink his drink into Richards' face shortly after a small riot (Richards later stated he was on the joke). Richards was played by actor Norm Macdonald in the film Man on the Moon, so he could be seen as a composite character taking the place of Richards).

Richards appeared in the cult TV miniseries Fresno in 1986, playing one of two mentally impaired criminal henchmen. Richards appeared in "Weird Al" Yankovic's comediest film UHF as janitor Stanley Spadowski in 1989. He appeared in Miami Vice as an unscrupulous bookie on television; in St. Germain, he appeared as an unscrupulous bookie. Elsewhere, as a television producer making a documentary about Dr. Mark Craig, portrayed as a narcotic in Cheers as a hero attempting to gather evidence on an old bet with Sam Malone; and made several guest appearances with Jay Leno as a disaster-prone fitness specialist.

ABC first conceived Monk as a procedural police comedy with an Inspector Clouseau-like character suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, according to an interview with executive producer David Hoberman. Richard Monk was supposed to play Adrian Monk, but the ABC refused to bring him.

Richards appeared in the NBC television series Seinfeld, created by fellow Fridays cast member Larry David and comedian Jerry Seinfeld in 1989. Despite starting off slow, it became one of the most popular sitcoms in television history by the mid-1990s. It came after a nine-year absence in 1998 at No. 69. In the Nielsen polls, No. 1 stands out. Kramer, the show's over the hall neighbor of the show's eponymous character, is usually referred to only by his last name. In the sixth-season episode "The Switch," Cosmo's first name, Cosmo, was revealed.

Richards received more Emmys than any other Seinfeld cast member, receiving the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1993, 1994, and 1997.

He and his fellow Seinfeld cast members provided interviews and audio commentary for the Seinfeld DVDs, beginning in 2004. Richards left audio commentary after Season 5, but he continued to do interviews.

Richards began working on a new series for NBC in 2000, his first big project since Seinfeld's conclusion. Richards' Michael Richards Exhibition, for which Richards received co-writer and co-executive producer credits, was conceived as a comedy/mystery starring Richards as a bumbling private investigator. When the first pilot lost with test audiences, NBC demanded that the program be retooled into a more typical, office-based sitcom before its premiere. It was cancelled after a few weeks of poor ratings and negative feedback.

Richards launched into a raging protest at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, California, on November 17, 2006, in response to repeated yelling and interruptions from a select group of black audience members. Richards was heard yelling "He's a nigger!" says Richards. Several times I have mentioned lynching and Jim Crow as a member of the Jim Crow period. The group had appeared in the middle of the performance and was "being a little loud," according to Kyle Doss, a member of Richards' band.

According to Doss:

Richards apologised on the late show with David Letterman three days after the incident, saying: "I'm deeply sorry for me to be in a comedy club and to turn out and say this garbage." I'm not a bigote, but here's why it's so bizarre about it. Many studio audience members erupted as Richards began his unscripted explanation and apology, leading show guest Jerry Seinfeld to reprimand them, saying, "Stop laughing." It's not funny," says the author. Richards said he had been trying to defuse the rumors by being even more bizarre, but it had backfired. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were both ordered to apologise later by civil rights leaders. He also appeared on Jackson's syndicated radio show as a guest. Doss said he did not accept Richards' apology, adding: "If he wanted to apologize, he might have called... one of us out of the group." However, he didn't, and here's why. He apologised on camera "just because the tape came out."

Mad TV, Family Guy, South Park, Extras, and Monday Night Raw were all parodied in the incident. Richards devolving into himself and ridiculed the situation. Richards explained that the outburst had haunted him, and that it was a significant reason for his departure from stand-up in a 2012 episode of Seinfeld's web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Comedian Paul Mooney cited the incident as a major factor in his decision to ban the racial insult from his own live performances.

In Episode 2 of the HBO series "The Flirt Episode" (1992), Richards appeared himself. He appeared in the comedy thriller film So I Married an Axe Murderer, which was also credited as a "insensitive man." In 1997's Trial and Error, he appeared as an actor pretending to be a lawyer in Airheads. He has appeared on Miami Vice, Night Court, and Cheers. Bud Ditchwater, a character in the animated film Bee Movie, which starred and was produced by Jerry Seinfeld in 2007, appeared as Bud Ditchwater. Richards and the other key Seinfeld cast members appeared in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009. Richards appeared in comedy web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, hosted by Jerry Seinfeld in 2012. In a trailer for Season 5, he appeared as the president of Crackle in 2014. In one of the episodes, Seinfeld said that the trailer's storyline would be expanded. Michael Richards, a main character in Matt Watson and Ryan Magee's book "Mega Saves the Troops," was a key character as an undercover spy.

In the sitcom Kirstie, Richards played Frank, costarring Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman. It premiered on television Land on December 4, 2013 and was cancelled after one season.

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