Jul 31 2009 First Look at Curb's 'Seinfeld' Pseudo-Reunion
The first shot of Curb Your Enthusiasm's long-awaited Seinfeld reunion been released by the Home Box Office Television Channel. Furthermore, Larry David talked to press about the scenario's inspiration, and how it will play out:
"The context is for years I've been asked about a 'Seinfeld' reunion -- as has Jerry and the other cast members," Larry David said at the "Curb" panel at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Pasadena."I would say, 'No, there's no reunion, we would never do that, it's a lame idea' ... but it might be really funny to do that on 'Curb' ... and I kept thinking of how we could pull this off, and Jerry was game ... so we're doing a 'Seinfeld' reunion show. ... We'll see the read-through, parts of rehearsals, the show being filmed ... you won't see the entire [mock 'Seinfeld' episode] ... you'll get an idea of what happened 11 years later [for the characters]."
"It was like getting on a bicycle," David said of writing "Seinfeld" dialog again. "Coming up with the right ideas about what they'd be doing 11 years later ... that took some thought."
How David, or science, plans to explain that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is somehow way hotter now than she was literally 20 years ago remains a mystery.
Mar 6 2009 Seinfeld Cast on the Curb
Well, I'll have to record the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in SP mode: there's going to be a Seinfeld reunion!
The Seinfeld cast is making another must-see appearance. EW has learned exclusively that the four stars of NBC's long-running comedy -- Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards -- will be featured in a multiple-episode story arc on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm this fall. The cameos will mark the first time that all four actors have appeared together in a scripted TV show since Seinfeld went off the air nearly 11 years ago. No date has been set for this event, or for Curb's seventh season, which will run for 10 weeks.
Of course, Michael Richards is now largely considered a racist, Seinfeld is a humorless husk of his former self, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander have already done Curb, but come on, it's a Seinfeld reunion. And any Seinfeld reunion that doesn't begin with the reveal that Jerry and Elaine now have a baby named Cosmo should be considered at least a marginal success.
Mar 7 2008 Seinfeld Making His Own 'Curb'
After Jerry Seinfeld's departure from his NBC series, years of shamelessly recycling the same jokes he made in 1990 finally culminated with an assaulting campaign for a mediocre animated movie. And I hoped, having seen that Larry David was clearly the talent in the duo, perhaps Seinfeld would again retreat under the shadow of his wife's cookbook, leaving no evidence he had ever emerged save for a faint yellow and black-striped blob permanently burned in my retina.
Unfortunately, it sounds like this might not be the case. According to the always-reputable Page Six, the Bee Movie hawker is in talks with NBC for a new series being described as "just like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but with Jerry, instead of Larry."
Just keep latching on to Larry's talent, Jerry. Maybe, since it's on network TV, those without HBO or DVD players won't notice you riding his coattails like a bicycle. I'd really like to know what L.D. thinks about this.
UPDATE: It turns out Page Six isn't the paragon of journalism I thought it was, and the report is false. Good job debunking, Chaz.
Jerry Seinfeld working on a new show for NBC [Page Six]
Oct 26 2007 'Bee Movie' 6-Minute Scene Actually Pretty Good
Despite how much of Seinfeld's dialogue consists of him simply shouting nouns, and the way little science lessons are ham-handedly shoved in as exposition, I found this six-minute scene from Bee Movie surprisingly charming and fun to watch.
Either I'm getting soft or my judgement is clouded by the joy of this not being another Shrek.
See the clip under the cut.
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Oct 9 2007 'Bee Movie' Poster
OK, what does "Honey Just Got Funny" mean? How is the honey funny? The bees just make it. It's like making a movie about construction workers and saying, "Buildings and Other Large Structures Just Got Funny!"
Furthermore, why is he on a tennis ball? As if that's some universally understood problem for bees. "Ha! Hit by a tennis ball! That would happen if you were bee-sized!"
The New Bee Movie Poster [ComingSoon]
Sep 25 2007 '30 Rock' and Seinfeld Merge Comedy Eras
Jul 11 2007 New Bee Movie Trailer
So we've got this big stinger, but we can only use it once, and then we're dead. Can you imagine that? You're a shark, and you've got this big mouth full of teeth, then, soon as you try to take a bite out of a seal or something; poof! That's all she wrote. It's just ridiculous. Am I supposed to get 72 bee virgins in the afterlife or something? I mean what. is. the deal?
A new trailer for Bee Movie is out, and I'm not sure what to think about it. As Mark pointed out, the whole fifth wall (you know, the one between anthropomorphic insects and humans) has been broken down.
The only thing I really have to add to that is, anyone else think Seinfeld is starting to sound like Jimmy Fallon's impression of Seinfeld? Gold star for anyone who can find video of this - how it's not on YouTube I'll never know.
