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Okay, here's what I got from an eyewitness friend who was there.

Apparently there was a black guy and an asian guy sitting on the balcony. The asian guy was talking to the black guy loudly and obnoxiously from the beginning of the segment. Michael Richards yells up there "Can you guys shut the **** up up there?", followed a brief moment later by "Hey, he doesn't think you're funny" (meaning, the black dude doesn't think what you're saying is funny, to the asian guy), to which the black dude responds to Michael Richards "you're not funny." And the rest of what you see in the TMZ video is what happened. The black guy also said to him before he walked out "I'll wait for you outside."

Apparently afterward, Michael Richards insisted on going outside to apologize, but the security wouldn't let him. He said "I don't want everyone to hate me, I know I went overboard, but that happens, you know?"

Either way, I laughed at the whole thing. It's pretty f'ed up, but I thought it was funny. If I was sitting up there being an obnoxious ******* and then said that to him while he's doing his segment, I wouldn't be surprised or really even mind if he started calling me a sand-n!gger, towelhead, dune-coon, whatever...I'd probably just laugh along and let him go crazy.