I saw a news item about his rant (I just tried to find it again for you at TMZ, but a box appeared saying "bad error"
) , complete with most of the words, but I couldn't read all the captioning.
My take is that someone was goading him (I'd like to know what
they said to
him) and he finally snapped, and decided to gross the heckler out. Maybe it was the timing, or the ambience or some of those other subliminal things that some people are very good at guaging and can ride like a surfer, but he missed it and crashed. His mock-racism etc got taken literally and the punters didn't like it.
In the nature of things, standup skates close to the edge, sometimes it must go off it. I don't go with the critics who are giving him beans as if he really is racist. I think this is different from Mel Gibson, who wasn't doing it for an audience.
Is he basically a standup man, or just doing that because his career as a scripted comedian is on the skids since Kramer?