'Seinfeld' star Michael Richards addresses outburst that led to 'lifelong spiritual quest'
The comedian is publishing a memoir called 'Entrances and Exits' with a foreword written by Jerry Seinfeld out next June
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Michael Richards is reflecting on his time on the iconic sitcom "Seinfeld," telling Fox News Digital the cast was "so interrelated."
"Truly, a four in one, whole and so charged with inspiration" the 74-year-old said of fellow castmates Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander who were on the hit show from 1989 to 1998. "Naturally this charge created us. It motivated us to work hard, to unfold greatness, to elevate comedy, and to serve it as gracefully as possible."
The comedian writes about the evolution of his character Cosmo Kramer and other behind-the-scene revelations in his new memoir "Entrances and Exits," in which Seinfeld writes the foreword. The book is scheduled to be released on June 4, 2024.
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Michael Richards said he's gone on a "lifelong spiritual quest" since his racial outburst in 2006. (Rob Latour/WWD/Penske Media)
"I regarded him as a comedy god," Richards told Fox News Digital of the actor who died in 2014. "A creator living and dying. A master of his domain."
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Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander made up the core cast of "Seinfeld." (Scott Flynn/AFP)
Richards will also discuss the night in 2006 that he shouted racial slurs at two hecklers during one of his standup acts that led to him largely pulling out of public life and "drove him to a lifelong spiritual quest, one that would help him move forward from apology and accountability to a greater appreciation for our shared humanity, a quest that continues to this day almost eighteen years later," according to publisher Permuted Press.
Jerry Seinfeld wrote the foreword for Michael Richards' book. (Tony Duran/Permuted Press/Rich Polk/Getty Images for GOOD+ Foundation)
"My book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the whole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all," Richards said in a statement about the memoir. "It’s like Harpo Marx turning us about, shaking up my plans, throwing me for a loop. Upset and turmoil is with us all the time. It’s at the basis of comedy. It’s the pratfall we all take. It’s the unavoidable mistake we didn’t expect. It’s everywhere I go. It’s in the way that I am, both light and dark, good and not-so-good. It’s my life."
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In the memoir, he also writes for the first time about being raised by a grandmother with schizophrenia and being in the Army.
Michael Richards laughing with Larry David on the set of "Seinfeld." (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The first time I entered Jerry’s apartment as Kramer, I asked, ‘Got any meat?’ In March 2021, I sat down at my desk looking over four decades of journals and asked myself, ‘Got a book in you?’ Well, just how meaty will it be? Probably a lot meatier than people expect. So… giddy up!"