Catching up with Karyn
What was he thinking?!
Obviously, he wasnāt. Thinking, that is. Michael Richards, better known to the world as Kramer, took his funny and light-hearted image heād established over his successful career with Seinfeld, and flushed it down the tubes. I can just picture him skidding into Jerryās apartment, shaking like an electrically charged, over-caffeinated baffoon, uttering āOooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooo!ā
āOh noā is right. Whether youāre dealing with hecklers, irritable coworkers or cranky customersāinsulting them is a bad idea. Comediennes anticipate that these things will happen, and they have comebacks that are so practiced that they can appear to be spontaneousābut few professional comics will leave those situations to chance.
Thereās something you can learn from Michael Richardsā common sense infarct. We all have times when have to deal with hostility from others. A lot of times, if weād thought about it, we could have anticipated these episodes.
And when those situations do arise, ...
