CHICAGO TRIBUNE: HMMM. HECKLERS BUGGING YOU? START FLAILING YOUR ARMS AND PACING. RANT ABOUT PUTTING A FORK IN A BAD PLACE.

Chicago Tribune: Hmmm. Hecklers bugging you? Start flailing your arms and pacing. Rant about putting a fork in a bad place.
That seems like something Kramer would do, maybe in the sixth or seventh "Seinfeld" season, in a bid to draw attention or something. One of those TV stunts.
"You know, Jerry, performance art!"
Then everyone would just roll their eyes and the next scene would be in the diner, with Elaine talking about how George accidentally got a birth control sponge stuck in his throat or something after it popped out of a purse and landed in the soup when he wasn't looking.
But it wasn't a "Seinfeld" script.
Racist tirade
Comedian Michael Richards lost it on stage at a Hollywood comedy club the other night and unleashed a racist, obscene, vile tirade at some hecklers in the audience.
You watch it, and you can't help but think you're seeing something in Michael Richards' heart that's scary, and that you didn't know was there.
Richards has apologized, and protested that he is not a racist, that he just "lost it."
Nobody's buying that. When you lose it and your default is to go so strongly and unacceptably racist, it's time for some soul searching.
It wasn't acceptable from Mel Gibson, when he unleashed an anti-Semitic rant at a cop who had stopped him on suspicion of drunken driving. It was no excuse when Gibson said he was drunk. And Richards? He was in the middle of a stage performance, presumably sober.
All of which raises an obvious question in all cases of unacceptable star behavior: Why do we expect TV and movie stars to be role models?
The assumption that there is inherent goodness there, or even a modicum of wisdom, is as flawed as confusing fiction with life.
We get to look at a tiny real-life slice of Michael Richards, and what emerges is a new image that will be hard to erase: KKKramer.