Michael Richards is not stupid. He knows what Fox News means to “Seinfeld” fans. It’s anathema.
Yet, there he was last night on Jesse Watters’s show. Watters is one of the most hard right Fox News nighttime wingnuts. He’s only a half step to Tucker Carlson and not far behind Sean Hannity in his deranged Trump love.
Yet there was Michael Richards, not as Kramer, but doing a serious interview with someone the “Seinfeld” group — Larry David especially — would abhor.
But Watters has a big audience, and appearing with him did the trick. Overnight, Richards’s self-published book, “Entrances and Exits,” jumped to number 19 on amazon.
Good work, but I’m going to figure out a way to return my Kindle edition this morning. Richards is using his book tour to stage a little comeback, and overcome his incident 18 years ago when he snapped on stage during stand up comedy and used the N word. So he’s chosen the racist, right wing Fox News and its mouthpiece, Jesse Watters.
This speaks volumes. On Tuesday, Richards barely missed a blow up on The View when he said, telling his story, “You couldn’t say the N word then.” Joy Behar snapped back, “You can’t say it now.” Joy picked up on something that we were trying to ignore.
Before this Watters appearance, I was going to write a cute item about Richards’ book. Not anymore. And now we know why no publisher wanted this book. Got it.
JUST IN: Jesse Watters interviews Michael Richards, best known as Kramer from Seinfeld. pic.twitter.com/RpWJL5NafH
— Craig R. Brittain (@RealBrittain) June 7, 2024
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