Eric Idle Spent ‘SNL’s 25th Anniversary Roasting ‘SNL’

Eric Idle Spent ‘SNL’s 25th Anniversary Roasting ‘SNL’

Early next year, Saturday Night Live will air a three-hour primetime special to celebrate its 50th anniversary, featuring celebrity guests and those surviving former SNL cast members who haven’t made Lorne Michaels’ enemies list — yet. But this […]

Redditors Claim That They’ve Seen Numerous ‘Assman’ License Plates Inspired by ‘Seinfeld’ in the Wild

Redditors Claim That They’ve Seen Numerous ‘Assman’ License Plates Inspired by ‘Seinfeld’ in the Wild

Nearly three decades after Jerry Seinfeld famously asked, “Who would order a license plate that says ‘Assman’?,” we may finally have an answer: Any Seinfeld fan with either $20 or a really good connection to the DMV.   […]

George Clooney’s Omega Watch, More Star-Studded Items on Auction for Veterans

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Hollywood A-listers are teaming up with the org Home For Our Troops, offering fans a shot at once-in-a-lifetime experiences and some seriously cool items — all in support of American veterans. George Clooney is kicking […]

Jerry Seinfeld Blasts Kids’ Former School for Letting Students Take Day After Election Off

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Jerry Seinfeld‘s taking his kids’ former school to task … ripping into the place of learning for offering “distressed” students the day after the election off — basically saying the school’s making kids too soft. […]

Jerry Seinfeld Walks Back His Take That ‘The Left’ Killed Comedy

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Getty Image Stand-up comedian and former Seinfeld star Jerry Seinfeld has walked back his take about “the left” killing comedy. During a recent interview, Seinfeld expressed regret over comments he made to The New Yorker earlier this year in […]

Jerry Seinfeld Regrets, Takes Back “Extreme Left” Comments

Jerry Seinfeld Regrets, Takes Back "Extreme Left" Comments

Jerry Seinfeld has admitted he was wrong to blame “the extreme left” for the downfall of network TV comedies. While appearing on the latest episode of comedian Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast, Seinfeld expressed his […]

Vampire Weekend on L.A., getting older and ‘Only God Was Above Us’

Vampire Weekend on L.A., getting older and 'Only God Was Above Us'

The members of Vampire Weekend are very good at this. Gathered on a recent afternoon to talk about the band’s fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us,” frontman Ezra Koenig, bassist Chris Baio and drummer […]

Music legend Paul Simon plays private, star-studded show at New York loft

Music legend Paul Simon plays private, star-studded show at New York loft

He’s still driving them crazy after all these years. Paul Simon retired from touring in 2018, ending his farewell tour with a concert at Flushing Meadow Park in the New York borough of Queens, where […]

An NBC Executive Auditioned to Play Himself on ‘Seinfeld’ and Didn’t Get the Part

An NBC Executive Auditioned to Play Himself on ‘Seinfeld’ and Didn’t Get the Part

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David famously named a number of Seinfeld characters after real people, such as Larry’s neighbor Kenny Kramer, Jerry’s college friend Michael Costanza (who sued the show for $100 million) and producer Joe Davola […]

Teri Hatcher jokes ‘they’re still real’ as Jeopardy! contestant answers question about her Seinfeld appearance in clip

Terri Hatcher jokes ‘they’re still real’ as one Jeopardy! contestant answers a question about her Seinfeld appearance

Actress Teri Hatcher has updated fans on her body after watching a clip of her being mentioned during Jeopardy! Teri, 59, previously appeared in a few episodes of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, specifically one in […]

How long is too long for a TV series, a film or a performance?

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I was watching some episodes of a television show, which shall remain nameless if only because I can’t remember the name, and was more than usually struck by the thought that if it were only […]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Gave a Filmmaking Legend His Only Acting Job

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Gave a Filmmaking Legend His Only Acting Job

Before they were TV stars and vanity restaurant moguls, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Cannibal! The Musical, a low-budget retelling of the story of Alfred Packer, the old-timey prospector who was convicted of cannibalism. Although really, […]

The ‘Seinfeld’ Cast Once Performed an Awkward In-Character Tribute to Producer Rob Reiner

The ‘Seinfeld’ Cast Once Performed an Awkward In-Character Tribute to Producer Rob Reiner

Even if you’ve seen all nine seasons of Seinfeld, plus the canonically-hazy Curb Your Enthusiasm reunion special, and that one Comedians in Cars episode featuring George Costanza, there’s still one piece of Seinfeld-themed content, starring all four central characters, that many completists may not […]