Thanks, Lanya. You're right, this was very interesting. Sinbad hit the nail on the head on every point.
The only problem was that the link informed me that I needed to download Windows media 11, which I did, and after I did, it did the same damned thing, but CNN poppud up beneath the message, but I could not access Sinbad's interview there.
So I googled Sinbad Michael Richards and it popped up on YouTube.
On the original Richards excerpt, there doesn't seem to be any heckling at all. Certainly nothing even remotely sufficient to bring out Richard's outburst. I still don't understand the "Upside down with a fork up your ass" bit. Although ,any unpleasant punishments have been inflicted on Black people in the US, inversion them and buggerment them with forks has never been a common practice.
All I can say about Richards is "WTF?"
He is a great comic, but this just doesn't fit in to the impression that he has projected, at least so far as I am concerned.
It seems that he is not so much a great original comic, but simply very good at getting the most out of some rather wacky material, such as the drugged out pharmacist on Fridays, Kramer and perhaps the hum men who hum hum between hum words, also on Fridays. Or was that him?