The question---Jox---what talent?    Sliding and doing one "shtick" over and over on Seinfeld is not clever comedy that a stand up comic can do. I was not a big fan of the show, but have to say that the others turned in "performances"--to me he was a nothing on that program.    By the way---an aside--I am a real fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is what Seinfeld could have been had it not been on "air" Tv as opposed to cable.   Larry David did, after all, crate Seinfeld.

Back to Richards.   HIs part probably could have been played by the fellow he was based on and who runs tours now in NYC.   As a stand-up he has no conception of what a stand-up does.   I always admire the bravado and confidence of stand up comics---their confidence in their material and their ability to put down a heckler in a clever way. Would that Richards had even 1/10 of that talent.

s said earlier--I recentlyh interviewed Mort Sahl prior to a gig in the area with Robert Klein and DIck Gregory. Now we are talking of people who not only command a stage but who can deliver material with confidence and has an audience splitting their sides while they are making great social and political points.   Gregory is 75, Sahl about 80, Klein around 60---Richards--I don't know but my 5 yr old grandson is quicker on the retort than he.

Bill Hahn