Michael Richards’s (Kramer’s) Net Worth, Height, Age, & Personal Info Wiki

Richards made his big T.V. debut in 1979 when he appeared in Billy Crystal’s first cable T.V. special. In 1980, Michael Richard joined the cast of ABC’s Friday’s television show, where Larry David was also a cast member and writer. It included a famous incident in which Andy Kaufman refused to deliver his scripted lines, prompting Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman, who then threw his drink in Richards’ face, sparking a small riot. The film Man on the Moon included a re-enactment of the Andy Kaufman incident in which Richards was portrayed by actor Norm Macdonald. However, he is never mentioned by name, so he may have been a composite character taking Richards’ place.

Richards played janitor Stanley Spadowski in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s comedy film UHF in 1989. On television, he played an unscrupulous bookie in Miami Vice, a television producer making a documentary about Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere, a character trying to collect on an old bet with Sam Malone in Cheers, and an accident-prone fitness expert in Jay Leno. According to executive producer David Hoberman, ABC originally envisioned Monk as a procedural police comedy starring an Inspector Clouseau-like character suffering from an intense disorder. Hoberman stated that ABC wanted Richards to play Adrian Monk, but he declined.

Following the conclusion of Seinfeld, Richards began work on a new series for NBC in 2000, Michael Richard’s first major project since the end of Seinfeld. The Michael Richards Show was conceived as a comedy/mystery starring Richards as a bumbling private investigator, for which he received co-writer and co-executive producer credits. When the first pilot with test audiences failed, NBC ordered that the show be reconfigured into a more conventional, office-based sitcom before its premiere. It was canceled after a few weeks of poor ratings and negative reviews. (4)