SEINFELD BLOG

Hate to come off like some defender of Jerry's comedy here, but was watching a terrible show on Australian TV last night, and this....ahem...."comedian" used, and unashamedly I might add, Jerry's jokes about the curtain between First Class and Economy Class on a plane and how the stewardess closes it, and also the line about the pilot telling us what he is doing, and the comedian saying he doesn't wanna know, just do what you have to do.

Love to get him sued, he was smiling too, like he thought no one would know, but I bet many Seinfeld fans would've picked up on it.

Any Aussies here who saw it???

I'll wager more Aussies saw it than read your post...................

The thing about observational humor is that it's about that which most people have experienced and can identify with. Maybe he did steal the material, but I think it's also possible that he noticed those things himself.

I saw Ellen Degeneres on her own cable special years back, and she did the "half-turn in the movie theater" bit (I don't remember if she used that same term). Did she steal it from Jerry, or just happen to think of it herself without knowing Jerry had already done it? It would seem unlikely that she'd purposely steal a bit from the most well-known sitcom of the time, but who knows.

Well, I wouldn't put anything past anybody. Especially Ellen degenerate.

I just thought of a great idea for a sitcom episode...

A main character would accidentally make two dates with two different girls for the same evening. But instead of coming clean, the character would try to run back and forth between both dates all night. Of course, eventually failing miserably and get busted.

Did you rip that one off from an Archie Comics Double Digest?!!?

Or how about this?

A character overhears a conversation about an animal that's dying, but thinks the conversation is about him/her dying. Can you imagine the hilarious events that would take place until the character finds out he/she was mistaken?

Jeffrey, I ripped them off from (insert the name of almost every sitcom ever made here).

Haven't read an Archie comic in 37 years. Wouldn't remember.