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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 11, 2020 8:46:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 9:38:23 GMT
This alone put him into my cool books....RIP Jerry..
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 11, 2020 9:51:28 GMT
Of course! Hairspray?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 11, 2020 13:07:39 GMT
He was funny as fuck. Loved him in seinfeld. I still say "serenity now!" sometimes
RIP
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 11, 2020 16:08:53 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 11, 2020 17:33:37 GMT
I'm glad he got some kudos and notoriety in later life. His wife, Anne Meara, was probably the more famous one when I was growing up.
I recently watched an interview him Stiller and the actress who played Estelle Costanza and they said the parts written for them were never meant to be as confrontational as they played them. They started playing them that way and Larry David and Seinfeld asked them to keep going.
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Post by Sneelock on May 12, 2020 15:08:14 GMT
Stiller & Meara meant WAY more to me than Nichols and May when I was growing up. one, they were everywhere - on all the variety shows my family watched. two, Nichols and May were really for grownups - mommy issues, psychoanalysis - stuff like that. I'm not saying Jerry & Ann were lowbrow just that I could enjoy it and see why it was funny.
We watched a couple of his "greatest hits" on Seinfeld last night - "the understudy" & "the doorman" (the nail salon & the manzeire) the guy was such a fuckin' pro. I'm sure once the writers got a load of the actors who were playing George's parents that the casting inspired them one way or the other. Frank gets more unhinged as the series goes along. The things they think of for them to do are funny on their own and then funny because of how fucked in the head we already know George to be.
at the end of "the strike" (the Festivus episode)they include a bit where Frank is ready to kick Elaine's ass and Julia Louis Dreyfus keeps breaking character. it's great to watch because you see how seriously Jerry Stiller took the business of being funny and how damned good he was at it.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 17, 2020 12:18:38 GMT
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 17, 2020 12:27:08 GMT
"I wouldn't get caught DEAD in Ban-Lon!"
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 17, 2020 20:27:32 GMT
Stiller & Meara meant WAY more to me than Nichols and May when I was growing up. one, they were everywhere - on all the variety shows my family watched. two, Nichols and May were really for grownups - mommy issues, psychoanalysis - stuff like that. I'm not saying Jerry & Ann were lowbrow just that I could enjoy it and see why it was funny. We watched a couple of his "greatest hits" on Seinfeld last night - "the understudy" & "the doorman" (the nail salon & the manzeire) the guy was such a fuckin' pro. I'm sure once the writers got a load of the actors who were playing George's parents that the casting inspired them one way or the other. Frank gets more unhinged as the series goes along. The things they think of for them to do are funny on their own and then funny because of how fucked in the head we already know George to be. at the end of "the strike" (the Festivus episode)they include a bit where Frank is ready to kick Elaine's ass and Julia Louis Dreyfus keeps breaking character. it's great to watch because you see how seriously Jerry Stiller took the business of being funny and how damned good he was at it. My favorite episodes of his are when he helps Kramer cater a meal years after poisoning his own troops in Korea and when he and Estelle are going to get divorced, where his lawyer wears a cape (played by Larry David), in the episode The Chinese Woman, with Donna Chang.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 17, 2020 21:09:48 GMT
I've kind of fallen in love with this man over the last few days, watching interviews, Seinfeld outtakes, seeing old photos etc. He was such an old-school entertainer, such a pro, and of course fantastically funny - and he comes across as such a sweetheart too (Jason Alexander said he couldn't manage to hit him hard on the head because he was such a pussycat).
I think it's time to give the show another go. Maybe I'll start with season 4.
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 17, 2020 21:29:45 GMT
I've kind of fallen in love with this man over the last few days, watching interviews, Seinfeld outtakes, seeing old photos etc. He was such an old-school entertainer, such a pro, and of course fantastically funny - and he comes across as such a sweetheart too (Jason Alexander said he couldn't manage to hit him hard on the head because he was such a pussycat). I think it's time to give the show another go. Maybe I'll start with season 4. Elaine, I can see. She's very. . . what's the word. . . supercilious?
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Post by rayge on May 17, 2020 21:32:48 GMT
I think it's time to give the show another go. Maybe I'll start with season 4. Couldn't hurt. I have the whole run on DVD, and still haven't seen them all. Looking forward to a period of enforced downtime when I can get really get stuck into... Oh
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