Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote and produced Unfrosted, a movie that frames the creation of Pop Tarts as an all-out breakfast war between Kellogg’s and Post. It’s a comedy, though I can’t tell if it’s in the parody vein like Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, or if it’s just trying to be regular-funny. And please let me show you that I am serious when I say SO MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THIS MOVIE. Ahem: Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant (playing the dude who’s cast as Tony the Tiger; Seinfeld made him AUDITION), Amy Schumer, Max “Schmidt” Greenfield, Peter Dinklage, Christian Slater, Bill Burr (as JFK???), Dean Norris (as Nikita Khruschev, because WHY NOT), Dan Levy, James Marsden (as Jack LaLanne!), Jack McBrayer, Bobby Moynihan (as Chef Boyardee!), Mikey Day, Kyle Mooney, Tony Hale, Maria Bakalova, Dean Norris, Cedric the Entertainer, Fred Armisen, John Slattery, Jon Hamm (I really hope, and in fact SUSPECT as they don’t have listed character names, that they are playing their Mad Men characters or obvious versions thereof). Sadly not all those people attended the premiere, but plenty of folks in mustaches did pop by, and then also Melissa McCarthy in her sunny florals. Mikey Day did not come, or at least not on time, because he was busy Buttheading across town. I have officially typed the words “Mikey Day” today more than I ever have in my life.
I will probably still watch this out of curiosity, but Jerry saying “extreme left and PC crap” is “hampering” comedy is RIDICULOUS. Leaving aside that the “PC crap” of which he’s so derisive typically means we just want comics to stop punching down, Jerry sounds like a crabby old man who doesn’t actually watch TV to know what is or isn’t available. Ghosts and Abbott Elementary are on CBS and ABC and expertly walk the line between warm-heartedness and barbed jokes (Ghosts has some racy running gags!). The eternally crabby Curb Your Enthusiasm – incidentally, by the man who was Seinfeld’s true engine — is doing so well that it is just concluding a SECOND successful run. Also, Apple has Shrinking (and Ted Lasso)! And Seinfeld is still pretty successful himself, and his show reruns ALL OVER CABLE TV, still, for those of us who have some form of it. So sit DOWN, Jerry, jeez. How telling that the only Seinfeld cast member (from what I could tell) who attended this, and whom Jerry palled around with in a very huggy manner, was the one who thought it was fine to say the N-word on a comedy stage. I did not buy a photo of him.
