Duh. I have given myself a well deserved dope slap.
To be fair, I could’ve been the one my mom got knocked up with at the tender age of 17, which resulted in her not being able to graduate HS (too scandalous to have a p-r-e-g-n-a-n-t girl in school around other girls - might give them ideas 
), and my dad being transferred to another school. His students did a torch march in protest. Ah, the 60s.
I was just the accident when she was ready to leave that subpar sitch 5 years later 
I had a massive crush on my math teacher in 10th grade (he was in his 40s). Made me go from a terrible grade to a very good grade. And no, he never acted on it… sadly
That’s a bummer (to get back on topic since I derailed it in the first place ahem) - good cast, at least.
.Hugh Grant was Tony The Tiger.
Well, Jessica Sklar may have plagiarized (or been, at least, inspired in an unethical way) another woman’s children’s cookbook, so, there’s that. Seinfeld apparently went on tv later to disparage the woman.
https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/a-closer-look-at-the-seinfeld-food-fight/
What’s the deal with Seinfeld and food?
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I enjoyed it. Not stellar but some funny bits. Melissa McCarthy was funny and I liked Hugh Grant leading the mascot insurrection (that helmut, LOL). I didn’t get the whole sea-monkey ravioli thing; seemed kinda lame and unnecessary.
She dumped her brand new husband for him. She was seen as a social climber. Known for terrorizing her sons’ school staff.
In June 1998, Seinfeld married Eric Nederlander, a theatrical producer and the son of theater owner Robert Nederlander . In early August, after the wedding and a honeymoon in Italy with Nederlander, she met Jerry Seinfeld at a Reebok Sports Club and they began dating.
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You forgot to include this part from the same Wiki article you seem to have quoted:
“I met Jerry at the end of what was the most difficult period of my life. I had just made a painful decision to dissolve a five-year relationship that began when I was 21 and culminated in a brief marriage. Jerry was neither the cause nor the effect of the breakup but his friendship gave me strength and resilience at a time of desperate need and it has formed the basis for my happiness in the years that have followed.”
I don’t tend to judge random people’s private lives, whether they are celebs or not. You never know what’s going on with someone.
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I haven’t watched Unfrosted (and am unlikely to do so).
Later Seinfeld is an increasingly icky bag of rats. He’s full in on the ‘you can’t say anything anymore!’ because some of his routines from the 80’s and 90’s have aged poorly. Rather than drop the ‘gay French king’ (limp wristed gesture) punchline, he sulks and complains.
It’s a shame because he IS very knowledgeable and engaging when he talks about comedy, joke construction, performance, etc.
And yea. Nice taste in cars.
Alas, he’s rapidly descending into ‘old man yells at cloud’ territory, or perhaps this Simpson’s reference is more apt.
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I watched Seinfeld religiously for years. 
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I thought the same and since Jerry loves the old guard of comedians, like Mel Brooks, in that vein of Jewish-y silliness I enjoyed the jokes and the elaborate visuals.
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He captured so well the angst of the times in his characters.
A number of years ago, my wife and I saw the very cheeky show, “Jews Telling Jokes” in a small NYC theater. The audience was as great as the performers. I left that show with a very diff pride for half my family. I now “get” the style.
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I was fully in on Seinfeld for its entire run. With the infamous exception of the finale, it was one of the most consistent and consistently funny shows on at the time.
It seems almost inevitable that many, MANY folks whom I admired and were inspired by have, with age, fallen into the ‘kids these days’ pit of resentment, fear of irrelevance, and general elitism that seems to be more and more contagious the older one gets. Bunches of folks that should know better, or USED TO know better, and up cranky blowhards muttering to themselves. John Cleese has rather famously fallen down that particular rabbit hole, much to the dismay of fellow Pythons Palin and Idle (who have not).
Coincidentally, those that DO fall into this particular tar pit almost always have their best work in the rear view mirror, so I feel less loss going forward. I wonder if their waning talent leads to this change in view, or if becoming a resentful, angry person leads you to lose your sense of what’s ‘good’ anymore.
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Really old news.
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Yes, major disappointment in John Cleese. And simply excusing it bc they’re ‘old fogies’ doesn’t quite do it.
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Exactly. Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you have to be a fogy. Maybe age exposes them for what they always were…?
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Familiar with the Yiddish slang, kvetch? Jewish humor is littered with complaining, totally ageless. In Britian the c-word is used in many contexts, often misunderstood. It offends equal to howls of laughter.
But in comedy, you pick your laugh meter and slamming older comedians who contributed greatly to the universe of humor seems well, comical. Chevy Chase made my sides hurt at the height of SNL. Today, well…it’s hard to watch but how many of us change with time? Smirk.
Considering the topic was about a movie and took a quick right turn into old gossipy chat, you missed a silly movie that hurt no one.
