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The Seinfeld Porn - See The Cast, Including The "Porn Nazi"

See, this is the thing with the word "Nazi" - put "Soup" in front of it, that's funny. Put "Porn" in front of it, that's disturbing. Many people will wait in line patiently for the Soup Nazi's soup. Far fewer, and far creepier, people, will wait for what the Porn Nazi is doling out. Anyway, as the Porn Nazi, that's porno legend Evan Stone, fresh from having his penis ruin the Super Bowl.

Want to see the rest of the cast for the XXX Seinfeld? Our initial impressions, based solely on these thespians' looks, as we have never seen a pornographic film in our lives: mediocre Jerry. Excellent Kramer. Extremely porny Elaine. And Jason Alexander is going to be very insulted by the George Costanza...

Jerry Seinfeld Does Reality TV?

Wait, Jerry Seinfeld? Do actor/comedians do reality television if they’re actually famous/successful?

We Admit It: We Kind Of Dug The Jerry Seinfeld / Bill Gates Windows Ads

Hey listen, we're not saying they were good ads. They were probably bad ads where Microsoft's bottom line was concerned, actually, but they were weird, and they had that pathetic guy from The Wire and Flight of the Conchords acting all "angry-dad-ish", which was kind of cool. Anyway, it's a moot point, because now Seinfeld's gone -- the campaign is moving in a new direction, and was supposedly always supposed to. The new direction of the campaign has nothing to do with the fact that most people hated them, guys, just move along.

So the plan was always to build a lot of hype and pay a shit-ton of cash for two OK-but-underwhelming ads, and then when they bomb act like they never happened? Ahhh... good luck with that rebranding effort, guys!

Posted Sep 19 2008, 11:29 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments

Filed under: Commercials, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Gates, Windows

Video Weekend: Eight Great Standup Comics

One of the things TV does really well is to sponsor great comedy, and send it straight to your home. After all, not every town has its own comedy club -- and even if there is a local Chuckle Hut in your community, you usually have to sit through one or two lame, ancient or belligerent routines for every good one. TV, on the other hand, is full of comedians working at their best -- on Comedy Central, on HBO and on every late-night talk show, not to mention Comic Relief and Last Comic Standing.

We've selected footage from eight of the funniest comedians ever, performing at various times over the past 25 years. And we can pretty much guarantee that they'll make you laugh -- although the two-drink minimum is at your own discretion.

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.

Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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