Last week, Will, Felix, and Bryan talked about the atrocity that is the new Jerry Seinfeld brainchild “Unfrosted.” A shitty movie about poptarts. I guess. Haven’t seen it, and I don’t plan on it!
In the episode at one point Bryan (IIRC) talks about Gottfried going on Howard Stern’s show and doing a spot on impression of Jerry for a long time and having it record onto Seinfeld’s personal home voicemail tape recorder (this was in the 90s I believe).
Well, thanks to the creepy YouTube algo, here you go. This was in my mental backlog of “things I want to search for, but will never remember to actually do so.” Thanks, Google. (Unironically for once)
It’s a pretty humorous little bit. Gottfried’s impression was dead on like Bryan said. Them mocking Jerry about stuff he actually whines about (like people eating at his shows) is gold though. I wish someone would ask Jerry about this and see if he reacts at all. Maybe Bill Burr can throw it in one of his little jabs he takes at people. Jerry would probably be fuming but unable to say anything because then he’d be the “poor sport” or whatever.
Anyway, fuck Jerry Seinfeld. I hope Gottfried is haunting him somehow.
(this was in the 90s I believe)
I thought to myself, “there’s gotta be some nerd who has meticulously catalogued every episode of The Howard Stern Show,” and sure enough, there is a glorious Web 1.0 site doing just that:
Jerry Seinfeld Jr. Answering Machine Message. 09/03/07. 8:40am
The next segment, from 1997, was Howard calling a gay movie theater line to hear the movies that were being shown that week. Then they played a segment from April 5, 1991 where Howard and Gilbert Gottfried called Jerry Seinfeld’s answering machine and left a couple of very long messages for him as Jerry Seinfeld Jr.
God, I miss the old Internet. Look at this glorious homepage:
- Instantaneous load
- Zero JavaScript
- No cookies
- The entire page consists of a 5.5 kB HTML file and three static GIFs comprising another 11.3 kB, plus a final kB for the favicon
- The only advertisement is a tiny unobtrusive Amazon affiliate icon
- All the site navigation is tucked into a nice tidy corner
Holy Christ that was a portal straight back to 2004 when my nerdy-ass high school friend would blab on about html. I remember I was helping him write some game for a TI-83. Truly a wormhole.
Old enough to remember cassette tapes, young enough to not know how to operate a tape recorder voicemail.
2004 was 20 years ago
Holy
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
