The Ultimate Meltdown - Episode 2

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Originally Posted by saden1

Oh god he made a mess of things on the Letterman show. It would probably have been best if he kept his remarks short rather than be philosophical. One thing was clearly evident...he looked like a broken man.

As for the audience laughing, Richards induced that laughter. I'm not sure if you can blame them.

They were talking about his Letterman "apology" on the radio a minute ago and they brought up some good points about the people laughing.

First, you have to think that many of the people in the audience are tourists who had probably been walking around NYC all day long, and therefore hadn't seen the news or Access Hollywood or whatever. If they weren't aware of how horribly he acted they might just think it was a joke, maybe making fun of the Mel Gibson thing or something.
Second, they may have seen the clip, and therefore they felt really uncomfortable to be in the audience listening to him talk about it. Lots of people deal with really uncomfortable situations by laughing or whatever.
Third, this is still the guy who played Kramer, one of the most beloved goofy TV characters ever, so they may be having trouble seperating the character with the jackass who played him.

I don't know why they thought it was funny, maybe they were laughing at how pathetic he's become.