I know this is a rather rudimentary realization, but technology has really raised the stakes for celebrities and performers in terms of exposure, and (also a rather rudimentary realization) not always in a good way.

A week or two ago, Michael ‘Kramer’ Richards was doing stand-up at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when a guy in the audience started heckling him. Eventually Richards completely lost it and started screaming back at this guy, using the N-word a total of over 20 times, while everyone in the audience walked out on him before his show was over-- all of which was caught on camera and immediately uploaded to YouTube.