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Jerry Seinfeld Names the One Other Comedian Weird Enough to Play Kramer
Up until 2020, Seinfeld didn’t believe anyone but Michael Richards was capable of pulling it off.
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It might be hard to believe, but Michael Richards wasn’t the first choice to play the role of Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld.
Richards was fairly well-known by the time the casting process began, and had even worked with Larry David on the Saturday Night Live-esque sketch comedy series Fridays in the early ‘80s, though David likely didn’t have him in mind because the character was originally meant to be more laid back. In fact, it wasn’t until the showrunners saw Richards’s wild audition that they decided to transform Kramer into the character we know today. Before that, a long list of people auditioned for........