Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'cosmokramer'
January 8, 2008
Is it something or nothing that an author's cookbook about hiding pureeed vegetables in children's food is similar to a later-published cookbook about hiding pureeed vegetables in children's food? Well, if the later cookbook's author is Jessica Seinfeld and Jerry Seinfeld refers to the other author as a "wacko" and "nut job," it means a lawsuit is in the works! Our readers debated the merits of the lawsuit (plagiarism claims are unclear, but defamation seems......
Continue Reading "Comment of the Day: What's the Deal With Lawsuits?"November 23, 2006
Oy. As the debate about Michael Richards, aka Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld, and his racist rant at comedy club hecklers continues, it now turns out that he may have had a run-in with comedy club patrons - and went off in an anti-Semitic rant at that time! TMZ.com spoke to a couple who says Richards went berserk while, yes,being heckled at LA's The Improv. Carol Oschin said, "Michael Richards said, 'You're a f---ing Jew.'......
Continue Reading "Kramer Kraziness Kontinues"November 20, 2006
This is almost as uncomfortable as a scenario from Curb Your Enthusiasm! TMZ.com has footage of Michael Richards, aka the actor who played Cosmo Kramer, going crazy at two black audience members who were heckling him at a comedy club. From TMZ:The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass." Richards continued, "You......
Continue Reading "No Kavorka Here: Kramer Goes Unhinged"August 30, 2004

Kenny Kramer, Entrepreneur / Wacky Next-Door Neighbor...
July 6, 2004
He sold disco jewelry, managed a reggae band, lived across the hall from Larry David and this weekend, as the rest of us boarded busses bound for sea and sand, he celebrated his 500th bus tour. Who is this man you ask? Gothamist answers, the real Kramer of course (aka Kenny Kramer, Larry David's muse for Seinfeld's Kramer)! You remember that show Seinfeld, right? And Cosmo Kramer? And the episode where he started a bus......
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