Jerry Seinfeld and Kramer Actor Michael Richards Have Rare Reunion 26 Years After Seinfeld Finale

Jerry and Kramer are together again!

Twenty-six years after their hit comedy series Seinfeld went off the air, Jerry Seinfeld and Michael Richards, who played Cosmo Kramer on the show, reunited on the red carpet for the premiere of Seinfeld's feature-film directorial debut Unfrosted.

Seinfeld, 70, and Richards, 74, were all smiles as they posed for photos during the Los Angeles event on Tuesday, April 30, waving to cameras with their arms around one another.

The reunion marks Richards' first red carpet appearance in eight years and comes just over a month before the release of his memoir Entrances and Exits, which features a foreword from Seinfeld.

In the book, Richards will share never-before-told stories from his life, including being raised by his grandmother with schizophrenia. He also writes of his time in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1970, and how he found his voice in theater at a young age. The experience helped shape his career, from performing on the comedy scene alongside Robin Williams and Jay Leno, to his breakout role on Seinfeld.

Richards also goes behind-the-scenes of Kramer’s character development and lasting influence on pop culture. He gives an insider's perspective on creating the show's signature comedy alongside the cast (which also included Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander), writers and guest stars.

The Problem Child actor will also reflect upon his “shameful” 2006 outburst, when he was filmed shouting racial epithets at audience members during a stand-up show in Los Angeles. After the incident, Richards has largely kept his life private. The incident drove him into a “lifelong spiritual quest,” as well as one of accountability.

"My book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the whole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all," Richards writes in the book's introduction, provided in a November 2023 statement to PEOPLE.

As for any talk of a reunion for the Seinfeld series — which was created by Seinfeld and comedian Larry David, and aired for nine seasons on NBC from 1989 to 1998 — Seinfeld himself shut down rumors in September 2021.

"I am very much a nostalgia person. I love to go to my house where I grew up on Long Island," the comedian said. "It's one of the reasons I love the Mets because I loved it when I was a kid, and it makes me think back to that time. But I like to go forward in life. I believe that going forward. I don't know what we would do that would be good."

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Seinfeld also cautioned that there's a possibility that the cast "wouldn't be as good" in a reunion setting, explaining he was content with the show they produced during its original run.

"I think we did a good job," he teased.

Unfrosted is streaming on Netflix Friday, May 3, while Richards' memoir Entrances and Exits is out June 4.