Following Sunday's Super Bowl Seinfeld reunion, Jerry Seinfeld made an appearance on Howard Stern. His interview came shortly after Jerry's controversial comments on the lack of race and diversity on his shows.
Jerry and Howard reunited once again and, as usual, it was radio gold.
Early on in the interview, Howard brought up appearing on the comic's web series, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. In his typical nerourtic fashion, Stern was convinced Jerry hated his appearance, however, Jerry couldn't have disagreed more:
"You are wonderful. You are one of my favorites. I did yours a little different than anyone else's...I thought it was funny to cut together every time you and I attacked one another...It's so great, Howard. It's so funny...We were both talking about our fathers--men of that generation--for maybe about 30 seconds. It was very moving, very powerful. That's why I love this show. It's an interview you can't really see anywhere else."
Jerry also described why he selected an orange, Pontiac GTO (each week has a different guest-themed car). According to Seinfeld, the GTO is as loud as Howard:
"It's very loud and very 'here I am world.' I described the car as someone who wants to scream to the world, 'I will not be going quietly.' And that's you."
It was only natural that the two would bring up Jerry's popular Super Bowl ad, which featured a mini-Seinfield reunion. Stern was fascinated with the behind the scenes economics:
Howard:
"I sat there and I was watching the Super Bowl, and I saw your ad come on that you wrote with Larry David. And I see that Fox was promoting Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, but then I read in the paper that this commercial was given to you by Fox TV for free, which was probably worth about $12 million."
Seinfeld:
"Yes, that is the exact number. Fox wanted to have something that related to New York, so they asked me if I could do a Seinfeld reunion, and I said 'That's not gonna happen.' And then I said to Larry, 'What if you and I talk about football?' Then Larry said, "If we have that sort of thing, why not call George and see if he wanted to do it..."
Unfortunately, it's not all going great for Seinfield. The legendary funny man is taking some backlash for how he responded to claims that his shows weren't diverse enough.
One person who was offended by the comments is Gawker contributor Kyle Chayka. The author of the post feels that Jerry has insulted all non-white, male comedians:
He seems to suggest that any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny, though he's also likely fed up with the amount of bad comedy he's been forced to sit through in his (waning) career.
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