For this to happen, for me to be in a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, you know, I'm deeply, deeply sorry.
I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.
I lost my temper on stage.
I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.
I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.
When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.
Michael is banned from performing at the Laugh Factory comedy club in Los Angeles.
Michael married Cathleen Richards, a family therapist, in 1974. They divorced in 1992. They have one daughter, Sophia Richards.
Michael shocked audience members at the Los Angeles comedy club, The Laugh Factory, in November 2006 when he was heckled by two black audience members. Michael unleashed a three-minute string of swear words at the hecklers, culminating in use of the word "ni**er".
Michael's first major success was in the TV show Fridays.
In 1979, Michael decided to pursue standup comedy.
Michael won the 1997 and 1998 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Seinfeld along with Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Michael won the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Seinfeld.
Michael won the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Seinfeld.
Michael was nominated in 1996 for the Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Award for his role in Unstrung Heroes in the American Comedy Awards.
Michael was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam era and served two years in West Germany.
Michael attended the California Institute of the Arts.
Michael auditioned for the role of Al Bundy in Married... With Children.
Michael is 6'3" tall.
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