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Last week while I was on the Kramer Reality Tour (which started before the Peterman Reality tour spoofed it on Seinfeld), I came to know what it means to be a Real New Yorker. The tour is Kenny’s latest venture to find some exciting way to pass through life extraordinarily. When disco was king, he sold electronic jewelry; he has also managed a British reggae band, appeared on Judge Judy, earned not much more than cab fare as a New York comedian, and ran for mayor on a platform of legalizing marijuana. (He says his loss...
...Humor—Move over, James Engell. If I want to learn how to turn the oddities of everyday life into humor, I’m not going to place $35,000 in Harvard’s coffers. I’m just going to watch Seinfeld re-runs. My roommate and I would both agree that anyone who can turn black-and-white cookies and women with extra-large hands into comedy is a true genius...
...hands interesting twists--he is gay, he has a wacky family, he lives in Paris--all of which then become comic material. Dan Zevin, author of The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-up, is firmly in the latter category. His bread and butter is the Seinfeld-ian nothingness of everyday life...
...Kozmo.com, the company that sold you cigarettes, Sour Patch Kids, and Swanson frozen dinners at retail-competitive prices while still managing to have them delivered to your door within an hour. Hundreds of Harvard students drove the Boston operation by incessantly ordering $3 of candy every evening before Seinfeld reruns came...
...upfront presentation Monday, at Radio City Music Hall, it was a Christmas where the network did a bit of - to borrow a term from Seinfeld - "regifting." The network announced one drama, set in the early 1960s, that will make liberal use of old footage from "American Bandstand" and NBC News reports. It announced "The Rerun Show," to air perhaps later this summer, in which a troupe of actors will perform scripts from old sitcoms. It announced a few new sitcoms and dramas, several of which bore considerable resemblence to old NBC sitcoms and dramas...