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Michael Richards deliberately “cancelled” himself with his infamous comedy club racist rant so he could escape showbusiness. The ‘Seinfeld’ actor, 74, made a fortune and was skyrocketed to global fame playing Kramer on the hit comedy sitcom but was disgraced and blacklisted from the entertainment industry after he was filmed unleashing a tirade of racial slurs during a 2006 stand-up show at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. Michael has now told Hoda Kotb, 59, on ‘Today’ about how he thinks the incident was a case of self-sabotage: “Anger had a hold of me, and I cancelled myself out. Take an ex…