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Kirstie Alley With Jason Alexander   “SEINFELD” ALUMS JASON ALEXANDER AND MICHAEL RICHARDS REUNITE ON “KIRSTIE”, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH AT 10:30PM When an outraged Maddie (Kirstie Alley) finds out that her agent (Jason Alexander) is not doing his job, she tries to gather the courage to fire him…and somehow ends up seducing him. Arlo (Eric Petersen), Frank (Michael Richards) and Thelma (Rhea Perlman) also get an unsuspected boost of “confidence” from Maddie (Alley). Photo Courtesy Of: TV Land

Kirstie Celebrates The Holidays Maddie (Kirstie Alley), Thelma (Rhea Perlman), and Frank (Michael Richards) hope to lift Arlo’s (Eric Petersen) spirits by celebrating Christmas for the first time. Buoyed by this sudden boost of holiday cheer, Arlo surprises Maddie with a gift she can’t return or re-gift: her estranged mother Shirley (Leachman), whose spiteful contempt threatens the perfect Christmas Maddie's desperately trying to give her son. Photo Courtesy Of: TV Land

Michael Richards said Sunday he did not consider himself a racist, and said he was "shattered" by the comments he made to two young black men during a tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club. Richards appeared on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally syndicated radio program, Keep Hope Alive, as a part of a series of apologies for the incident. He said he knew his comments hurt the black community, and hoped to meet with the two men. He told Jackson that he had not used the language before. "That's why I'm shattered by it. The way this came through me was like a freight train. After it was over, when I went to look for them, they had gone. And I've tried to meet them, to talk to them, to get some healing," he said. Richards, who played Jerry Seinfeld's neighbor Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, was performing at Hollywood's Laugh Factory when he lashed out at hecklers and used the N----- word. Richards told Jackson the tirade was fueled by anger, not...

Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, one of the men and their lawyer said Friday. Frank McBride and Kyle Doss said they were part of a group of about 20 people who had gathered at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory to celebrate a friend's birthday. According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, they were ordering drinks when Richards berated them for interrupting his act. When one of their group replied that he wasn't funny, Richards launched into a string of obscenities and repeatedly used the n-word. A video cell phone captured the outburst. Richards, who played Jerry Seinfeld's wacky neighbor Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," made a nationally televised apology on the "Late Show with David Letterman" earlier this week. He has since apologized to the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, both civil rights leaders. But Doss, 26, said Frid...

Michael Richards is doing damage control. In the aftermath of his racist tirade against two black hecklers during a stand up comedy routine, Richards on Wednesday hired a publicist with strong ties to the black community who set up calls to the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. New York publicist Howard Rubenstein (Left) took on Richards as a client, then arranged for the actor to call the black leaders. "Michael apologized profusely," Rubenstein said. "He wants to heal the tremendous wound that he's inflicted on the American public, and on the African-American community. ... I think it was a positive discussion." Jackson said Richards called "expressing his remorse and his confusion." "He's embarrassed. He got caught on tape. That's a big part of his anxiety now," said Jackson. "Clearly he needs some race sensibility training, and some psychiatric help. His anger is volatile and dangerous to himself and others," Jackson ...

The Cast Of Seinfeld A group of African-American community leaders have spoken out against former Seinfeld actor Michael Richards' stand-up comedy act, which included shouting racial insults.The 57-year-old actor-comedian, who is best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's eccentric neighbour Kramer on the hit TV show, stunned the Laugh Factory comedy club audience in West Hollywood.Richards shouted racial insults at people who made fun of him during his performance. Celebrity-news website TMZ.com released Richards' video on Friday showing his performance.The tirade apparently began after two black audience members started shouting at him that he wasn't funny."He made a comment that 50 years ago African-Americans would have been hanging from a tree with a fork stuck up their rear end," said Najee Ali, executive director of Project Islamic, a civil-rights group."Fifty years later, we're saying to Mr Richards that that's unacceptable hate speech and th...