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  • 10
    Dec
    2012
    3:39pm, EST

    'Seinfeld' in the age of Twitter? New feed imagines the wealth of material

    By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY

    If you're still waiting for that one great thing that Twitter will give us, the wait may be over. The "Modern Seinfeld" feed has arrived. With fewer than 40 tweets as the time of this writing, @SeinfeldToday has more than 20,000 followers. Each tweet is a logline of an episode of the iconic show, as if it were still on the air.

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    The stars of "Seinfeld," from left, Michael Richards as Kramer, Jason Alexander as George Costanza, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes and Jerry Seinfeld as himself.

    Can't you imagine a show that involves addictive Internet trends, like Pinterest? This tweet posits just that scenario: "Elaine yells at her co-workers for loving Pinterest. Kramer becomes an @Uber driver. George opens actual jerk store on Etsy." And yes, we agree, the Trader Joe's line would give Jerry some fantastic fodder: "Jerry gets in a fight in the Trader Joes line. George's Netflix thinks he's gay. Elaine has to get One Direction tickets for her boss's kid."


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    There's no indication that anyone associated with the original show is behind the feed, but it can be assumed that like the folks behind "Seinfeld," the Twitter author is deeply familiar with New York City, as evidenced by this tweet that name checks notoriously tough-to-get-into spinning studio SoulCycle.

    The @SeinfeldToday feed has been up barely a full 24 hours, and it's already chocked so full of pop culture goodness, if it doesn't make you yearn for a revival of the show, you were probably never a fan to begin with.

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    Sep
    2012
    11:46am, EDT

    Michael Richards still 'busted up' after 'n-word' tirade

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    Michael Richards, left, and Jerry Seinfeld chat about working together on "Seinfeld" in the last installment of the web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."

    By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY

    Jerry Seinfeld's web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" has been a reliably hilarious glimpse into the world of Seinfeld and his famous comedian-type friends. But the recent installment, starring former "Seinfeld" co-star Michael Richards takes a decidedly more serious turn.

    If you recall, Richards was caught on tape at an L.A. comedy club responding to hecklers in the audience with a shockingly racist tirade, calling the hecklers the "n-word" and referencing a time when blacks were often victims of civil rights abuses. The fallout was immediate -- the public turned against him and he apologized, but Richards tells Seinfeld the wounds are still very present.

    "I think I worked selfishly, and not selflessly," Richards said of his time on "Seinfeld." "It's not about me, it's about them (the audience). That's the lesson I learned seven years ago when I blew it in the comedy club and lost my temper because somebody interrupted my act and said some things that hurt me and I lashed out in anger. I should have been working selflessly at that time." 

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    Richards then clarified that the rumor that he'd done several comedy sets since is not true. "No. I busted up after that event. It broke me down. It was a selfish response, I took it too personally. I should have said (to the hecklers), 'You're absolutely right, I'm not funny, I'm going to go home' ... Inside it still kicks me around a bit." 

    "That's up to you," Seinfeld replied to Richards, who he's stood behind throughout the incident. "It's up to you to say 'I've been carrying this bag long enough, I'm going to put it down.'"


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    At this point it's interesting to note that unlike any of the previous episodes of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," this one begins with a caveat: "Certain events in this episode seem set up. They were not." Whether that applies to a strange mix-up at the beginning of the show when Richards and Seinfeld think they're knocking on boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard's door (it's actually the home of actor/comedian Jay Mohr) or Richards' candid remarks, or both -- who knows? But, one thing is certain: the incident in the club has forever impacted Richards. Where the rest of the "Seinfeld" cast has moved on, he's still struggling with that one awful night.

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