"This woman's a jerk. I hate her," Seinfeld said. "I can't believe they put her in my box that I paid for! You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we're living in now?"This finger incident happened a while back. All he has is "How old is the finger? How did it even get to be the finger?"? That's pathetic. If she'd just given the finger, I would have thought it was interesting to see how Seinfeld gets started working on one of his little what's the deal with that routines. But he's had time.
"It's pathetic," he added....
"She's a jerk," he continued. "What is she giving the finger [for]? What's the finger anyway? Speaking of interesting and new, how old is the finger? How did it even get to be the finger?"
And, by the way, I remember the subject — "How old is the finger? How did it even get to be the finger?" — being discussed at great length back when the movie "Titanic" came out. It was an important moment in character development when Kate Winslet (as "Rose") gave some guy the finger. Was that an anachronism in a movie set in 1912? But I'm not going to do your research for you, Jerry. You're going on the radio. You've had some time to put some jokes together. Do some research!
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Jerry Seinfeld: What's the story with Lady Gaga and the finger in the box?
Steve Sommers: I don't know I just wish it were my finger in the box and the whole migilla. Me here you there overnight on the FAN.
(Steve Sommers and Jerry Sienfeld on WFAN)
I happened to listen to the whole conversation which is not unusal as I listent to the FAN about six hours a day.
I bet you didn't know that Steve Sommers comments here under his internet name of ricpic?
Oh and Ritmo is really Mike Francesa.
If you listen to NY sports radio that is really freakin funny. Just sayn'
I got nothin to say on this topic, but I didn't want Trooper to be lonely.
Thanks Original Mike. But I can amuse myself.
Most of the time I am the only one who gets my jokes anyway.
AlphaLiberal is really Chris Russo.
And danielle is really Susyn Waldman
hdhouse is Pete Franklin.
"What's the finger anyway? Speaking of interesting and new, how old is the finger? How did it even get to be the finger?"
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
And yet Mitch Hedberg is dead.
There is no justice in the comedic universe!
It was a radio interview; not a tickets-sold, lights-on stand up routine, right?
Perhaps he was silly with the finger thing... not totally funny... so what? You didn't buy a ticket, did you? You can have back all the money that you paid.
Trooper York is creepy with all his strange commenting in this thread. I think he might be a psychokiller planning to eat someone...
I think we need a better term for "giving the finger" or "flipping someone the bird."
How about "befurf"? Lady Gaga befurfed Mets fans.
Before I knew who Lady Gaga was, I watched an interview with her on the Fuse channel. She's 25 years old, and bisexual and shallower than dew in the Sahara.
"Dead Julius said...
Trooper York is creepy with all his strange commenting in this thread. I think he might be a psychokiller planning to eat someone."
Thanks Julie. I just bought some fava beans as a matter of fact but I prefer sangiovese. Just Sayn'
Dead Julius is Scott Ferrell.
I seem to remembe when Elaine used the finger to be the master of her domain. Just sayn'
Lou Ruffino did Steve Sommers on Imus on WABC just this morning. 7:13am to be exact.
Imus: "That's funny, if you know who Steve Sommers is."
Jerry is sneaky to say that he doesn't believe that all publicity is good publicity as he grabs some of Gaga's publicity for himself.
AST...Lady Gaga is the new woman. She is bi-sexual and shallow. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Steve Sommers is the overnight host of the sports station WFAN in New York. Orignially from San Fransico he is very popular but an acquired taste. He is a gentle and funny guy and a lot of insominacs like Jerry and me listen to him "Late night and under the covers."
A unique and easily recognizable voice.
Oh and Cedarford would hate his guts. Just sayn.
Jerry Seinfeld is a big fan of Sommers and calls in all the time.
He should let this be a lesson to him. You should always fill your box or someone you don't like will show up there.
That's why there are so many divorces in Hollywood. Just sayn'
Bad news for Seinfeld, he's not as funny as Sommers, who can be GREAT.
He and Francesca are really the only two hosts worth listening to, otherwise, go over to ESPN.
I don't even know who Steve Sommers is. (Think they'll believe me? Not a chance.)
Was that a double entendre on the word box? They can't call me unhip!
Never understood why people think Seinfeld-the man or the show-is funny.
When the Messiah takes over the internets we won't be able to post stuff about fingers in the boxes of slutty pop stars.
Speaking of old WFAN radio personalities, don't you think that Don Imus kind of looks like Betty White in drag but not as funny?
"victoria said...
Jerry Seinfeld, pot... kettle. Who died and made him the tastemaker."
Johnny Carson.
"Old Dad said...
Speaking of old WFAN radio personalities, don't you think that Don Imus kind of looks like Betty White in drag but not as funny?"
Come to think of it I have never seen them in the same place at the same time.
Sort of like the professor and Alison Arngrim. Just sayn'
The finger symbolizes the penis Jerry.
Lou Ruffino (Imus's engineer at WFAN and now WABC) can do all the voices at WFAN in flawless sports-talk riffs.
A talent that in a few years will go to waste.
By dissing both teams Gaga could render herself a baseball exile in New York. Reminds me of the way I exiled myself from the world of side street touch football. My buddy Bob Marotta was about 6' 2'' of solid muscle and he loved to throw humongous 2 and 1/2 sewer passes. I was the shrimpy end who was designated to catch the things. It was terrifying because Marotta threw a heavy ball which was hard enough to catch up to and nearly impossible to hold on to if you did catch up to it. My solution was to fake the effort and laugh off my failure to catch his bombs. Result? Benched by Bob and every other quarterback in the neighborhood. Like Gaga I let down the team (in her case both teams). My punishment fit the crime. Let hers be the same.
P.S. Bob went on to marry an Irish girl, thereby exiling himself from marinara sauce for life.
It's hot and humid enough to set off the Für Elise basement floor flood warning, from the condensation, for a stanza or so now and then.
I'm sucking cool air off the basement floor through an elaborate fan and duct arrangement, blowing it in the end on my computer desk chair.
The outdoor replacement air in the basement tends to condense on the floor.
This sets off the musical battery moisture detector.
Who is this Gaga Lady of whom you speak?
Is she a cartoon character?
A B movie actress?
A prostitute?
An underwear sales rep?
An excapee from a lunatic asylum? Wait a minute. Who has seen her and Cocaign in the same place? Hmmm.
If Seinfeld had Altzeimers, would he do old, stale bits and forget they were old, stale bits?
Haven't you figured out that the talent is all Larry David's.
Seinfeld got a free ride.
I thought that was Al Gore?
Oh wait. That was Laurie David.
Nevermind.
i will say that sienfeld is actually a little funnier when he does learn the story. he had a great bit about how yo-yo's used to be weapons, imagining it in modern warfare, etc. it was much funnier than a tired "what is a yo-yo" routine.
still ga-ga is just an attention whore. i could care less what she did and seinfeld is only feeding her fame monster.
It may not have been a good riff, but the funnier thing for an episode of 'Seinfeld' would be Jerry and George watching the Mets game on TV and seeing Lady Gaga in Jerry's box when Jerry already had given the tickets to someone else ("What's Lady Gaga doing in my box?"), and now he thinks people are re-selling his luxury box seats. Or everyone thinking Jerry can now get them Lady Gaga concert tickets at Madison Square Garden, or that Jerry's going out with Lady Gaga because she was in his Citi Field luxury box (which I suppose could end up with having Kramer somehow end up as one of Lady Gaga's dancers during her Garden performance. Or finding out that George's dad's a big Lady Gaga fan and now wants to sit in Jerry's box at the Mets game).
Speaking of anachronisms, the author (Eugene Sledge) of one of the books that the HBO series "Pacific" was based on says that the soldiers almost never used the "f" word during that time. Just too crude.
And when the marines were leaving Sidney, Australia after R-and-R, the reason they were throwing blown up condoms at the women waving goodbye was to mock them. It was, "Yeah, you're crying now that we're leaving but you can use these for the next group of marines you'll shack up with!"
Seinfeld got punched by both the recent and the younger. Absolutely that's an "alas" if you're both older and so yesterday.
FTR, here I'm offering an observation, not snark.
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