Jerry Seinfeld
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Work, Love, and Humor May 28, 2024
Two hundred and fifty years from now, Americans will probably not be watching a television series about Jerry Seinfeld, the way some of us are following Michael Douglas’s starring turn in Apple TV’s Franklin. No matter how profound Seinfeld’s comedy ...
“Seinfeld” and the Art of Comedy May 27, 2024
Though the Harrison Butker commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas and the subsequent attempt at a media lynching has dominated the internet during the 2024 graduation session, his was not the only good commencement speech this year. Jer...
What Is the Deal With Jerry Seinfeld? May 17, 2024
Remember Bizarro Jerry? In the eighth season of Seinfeld, when the ubiquitous, insanely popular sitcom was edging away from the quotidian and into the surreal, Elaine broke up with a nice boyfriend named Kevin who declared himself perfectly happy to ...
The Imperfect Nostalgia of ‘Unfrosted’ May 13, 2024
More than a decade ago, Jerry Seinfeld appeared in a video deconstructing one of his jokes. The joke was about Pop-Tarts, the breakfast toaster pastry developed by the Kellogg’s company in 1964. Fast forward to 2024, and Seinfeld has directed and sta...
Seinfeld’s “Unfrosted” and the Fate of Comedy May 13, 2024
One of my favorite G. K. Chesterton observations is “He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.” That’s partly because I like to joke around a lot and partly because I think he was right.Unfortunately, you won’t find...
‘Unfrosted’ Won’t Be the Last Brand IP Movie May 09, 2024
The past several years have ushered in a wave of “brand” tales in Hollywood—films that speak to America’s prodigious capitalist ethos, just in case you forgot to look at a billboard. From Blackberry to Air to Flamin’ Hot, these films have captured th...
‘Unfrosted’ Is the Latest in Corporate Nostalgia May 08, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld’s movie Unfrosted, which the comedy superstar co-wrote, directed, and stars in, is an unauthorized, fictionalized account of the creation in 1963 of Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts, the breakfast product officially described as “toaster pastries.”...
Jerry Seinfeld Is Wrong About Comedy May 01, 2024
As titles go, this might sound like one of my more hubristic — not quite “Francis Crick was wrong about molecular biology” but not a million miles away.Seinfeld, created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, is quite simply the best sitcom of all time —...
The Scholar of Comedy April 30, 2024
The cartoon of Jerry Seinfeld is that he is the comedian who goes on “about nothing.” The nihilist of the Upper West Side. And yet Seinfeld is, like Chris Rock and few others in comedy, as serious and self-conscious about his craft as the best musici...
Jerry Seinfeld on the Unreality of ‘Unfrosted’ April 26, 2024
There is a real story about how Pop-Tarts were invented: In 1964, the breakfast food company Kellogg’s (which now operates as Kellanova) approached William Post to develop a breakfast toaster pastry, knowing that its competitor company Post — no rela...
Jerry Seinfeld Has Some Thoughts April 26, 2024
To hear Jerry Seinfeld deconstruct a joke is like watching a world-renowned artist paint something just for you. Take his beloved Pop-Tart joke. On the surface, it chronicles the invention of the breakfast staple, and especially how the delicacy reso...
Jerry Seinfeld Says Movies Are Over April 23, 2024
Of all the things one might associate with Jerry Seinfeld, excited sentimentality might be the last. But remembering the day he shot the recent finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, his voice approaches something dangerously close to swelling. “As I drove ...
The Return of Comedy April 23, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld, the fantastically successful comedian, once told an interviewer that he didn’t like performing his comedy at universities because, in his experience, young people no longer know how to laugh. The prevailing culture of political correc...
