Rick Newman, the founder of New York City’s hugely influential Catch a Rising Star comedy club that provided a training ground for the stand-up comics who would change the landscape of entertainment in the 1970s, died Feb. 20 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.
His wife Krysi Newman told The Washin…
Well, good luck with that. Consummate New York Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld is blaming Timmy Trumpet's live performance of the song "Narco" at Citi Field last week for the Mets recent swoon.
The team had a 10.5 game lead in its division in June. As of tonight, they’re now just a half-game up on the defending champion and…
EXCLUSIVE: Maria Bakalova (Bodies Bodies Bodies) has joined the casts of Andrew Durham’s feature directorial debut Fairyland for American Zoetrope, and Jerry Seinfeld’s first film Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story for Netflix. Details as to the roles she’ll be playing in the features have not been disclosed, though we…
Jerry Seinfeld has assembled a stellar cast for his Netflix comedy Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, with Melissa McCarthy (God’s Favorite Idiot), Jim Gaffigan (Linoleum), Amy Schumer (Life & Beth), Hugh Grant (The Undoing) and James Marsden (Sonic the Hedgehog 2) signing on for roles, along with Jack McBrayer (Hello, Jac…
George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
Along with his partner and childhood friend Howard West, Shapiro was personal manager to comedy greats Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman…
Jerry Seinfeld went on social media to pay tribute to his Seinfeld TV mom Liz Sheridan, who died today at 93.
“Liz was always the sweetest, nicest TV mom a son could wish for,” the comic and actor wrote on Twitter. “Every time she came on our show it was the coziest feeling for me. So lucky to have known her” (see the…
HBO Documentary Films today unveiled a trailer for The Super Bob Einstein Movie, a doc celebrating the life and legacy of the late actor, writer and producer Bob Einstein, which is scheduled to premiere on HBO on December 28th at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
The film from…
All 180 episodes of beloved ’90s sitcom Seinfeld recently dropped on Netflix. However, fans are noticing that some jokes aren't translating as well as they used to. Thanks to the streamer updating a show shot in 4:3 to 16:9, the frame is cropped, thus leaving out some important visuals.
Social media is vocal about the…
Jerry Seinfeld is having some second thoughts on certain episodes of his classic sitcom.
Speaking last week at a press event for the rollout on Netflix of his eponymous comedy show, Seinfeld the man reflected on a few things that haven’t aged well.
"There's a number of them that I would love to have a crack at, but I…
Netflix debuted a teaser for “2021’s hottest new show” this morning before clarifying that the show isn’t exactly new, just new to Netflix. But it is a hot commodity.
The streamer announced the long-awaited premiere date for the entire 180-episode library of Seinfeld: October 1, 2021.
This is the first time that every…
EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Seinfeld has made it clear he would not inject his comic genius into another sitcom, after generating arguably the best one ever. So he is turning to another outlet — the movie screen — and his relationship with Netflix has just won the streamer a plum project for its film slate. Seinfeld will star…
Jerry Seinfeld will be first comic on the reopened stage of the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan tonight, the sitcom great confirmed in a tweet today.
“I asked @GothamComedy if I could be the first on stage at 7:00pm,” Seinfeld wrote. “They said ‘Yes’. So that’s when.”
In another tweet, Seinfeld wrote, “You better…