Seinfeld Fan (not hockey related)

Cleghorn · Veteran Member

Seinfeld Fan (not hockey related)

Johnny USA · Veteran Member

Dazzam. I've heard the Buddy Rich Tapes (at least some of them), and I always thought they were great entertainment. I'm also a huge Seinfeld fan, and until today never put the two together.

That is great stuff.

Cleghorn · Veteran Member

Johnny USA wrote:

Dazzam. I've heard the Buddy Rich Tapes (at least some of them), and I always thought they were great entertainment. I'm also a huge Seinfeld fan, and until today never put the two together. That is great stuff.

Thanks Johnny - after I wrote all of that, I thought what the hell am I doing, you really had to be there.

But, as always, some poster somewhere finds meaning in it.

I recommend the DVDs because Seinfeld and David dissect the show's magic - its like the jokes are for them and if anybody else likes it that's just the icing.

Nil d · Guru

I'm a huge Seinfeld fan, and just bought their fourth season on DVD (that was the year of "The Contest" among other great ones).

If you guys are into that type of humour (the Buddy Rich stuff you quote), you would love Christopher Guest's work. He wrote/produced/acted in a bunch of shows including Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, and The Big Wind. BIS and WFG are two absolute classics. Guest's performance as an effiminate small-town play director is hilarious.

The cast is almost identical in all the shows - Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, and a few more whose names I can't recall.

It's full of stuff like this: Balaban is whispering to Guest while standing right next to him. Guest says "Why are you whispering? I'm standing right here.". Think about that one for a second.

You have to like that quirky stuff, but I think anyone who loves a "show about nothing" would love Guest's stuff as well. A lot of Seinfeld cast members are in Guest's stuff too - Bob Balaban (he was the President of NBC), the guy who played the sassy doorman, and a few others.

Cleghorn · Veteran Member

Waiting for Guffman and the rest are cinema classics - trivia - what 70s sitcom did the guy mistaken for Guffman appear in as a regular? It's not one I'd buy on DVD.

One of the funniest movies ever is Carl Reiner's "Where's Poppa?" starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. The court room scene with a young Rob Reiner on trial as a young hippie charged with cutting off a General's big toe is a classic.

I recently re-watched it and it is so politically incorrect I recommend sending spouse and children out to the movies before watching.

Johnny USA · Veteran Member

I tell anyone who cares to listen about the genius of Christopher Guest's movies. His "mockumentaries". The scene where Fred Willard - in Best In Show - asks if dogs from other countries bark in different languages. The guy mistaken for Guffman is Paul Benedict, and he appeared in "A Different World" among other hideous sit-coms of that era.

Oh, and Larry Miller telling his goofy kid on the roof that he's going to gouge out his right eye with his thumb.

Cleghorn · Veteran Member

Larry Miller (The Doorman) is as funny as they come - he auditioned for the role of George Costanza and as he is one of Jerry's best friends surprising that Jason Alexander beat him out.

Nil d · Guru

Johnny USA wrote:

I tell anyone who cares to listen about the genius of Christopher Guest's movies. His "mockumentaries". The scene where Fred Willard - in Best In Show - asks if dogs from other countries bark in different languages. The guy mistaken for Guffman is Paul Benedict, and he appeared in "A Different World" among other hideous sit-coms of that era. Oh, and Larry Miller telling his goofy kid on the roof that he's going to gouge out his right eye with his thumb.

And this from a man whose profession was talking down would-be building-jumpers off the ledge.

One of many hilarious scenes.

I'm glad you guys (Cleg, Johnny) like this type of humour. It says a lot about the intelligence of Hab fans!