Jerry Seinfeld

Pro-Palestinian students hold white t-shirts stating the message, "DIVEST," as they protest during the UC Berkeley graduation at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as some US college graduations marked by defiant acts

Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far.
 
Police clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Shrine Auditorium, where a commencement ceremony for graduates from Pomona College was being held Sunday, May 12, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Pro-Palestinian protests dwindle on campuses as US college graduations are marked by defiant acts

 
Dua Lipa poses for a portrait to promote her new album "Radical Optimism" on Friday, April 26, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)

What to stream this week: Dua Lipa, Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ and ‘Welcome to Wrexham’

 
Jerry Seinfeld poses for a portrait to promote the film "Unfrosted" on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Jerry Seinfeld’s commitment to the bit

 
FILE - Jerry Seinfeld is shown before the men's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships between Casper Ruud, of Norway, and Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, in New York. Seinfeld's upcoming Netflix comedy will be featured during this weekend's IndyCar race at Long Beach as rookie Linus Lundqvist will drive a car painted to look like a Pop-Tart in recognition of the movie “Unfrosted.”(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Seinfeld’s upcoming Netflix movie about Pop-Tarts to be featured in IndyCar race at Long Beach

 

ShowBiz Minute: Kevin Hart, Kate Middleton, Box Office

Comedian Kevin Hart joins an elite group honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American humor; Kate and William ‘extremely moved’ by support since the Princess of Wales’ cancer revelation; ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ tops the U.S. box office with $45.2M. (Mar. 25)
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Liz Sheridan, Jerry’s doting mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93

Liz Sheridan, who played doting mom to Jerry Seinfeld on his hit sitcom, died early Friday. She was 93.
 
This cover image released by Gallery Books shows "Vegan, at Times; 120+ Recipes for Every Day or Every So Often" by Jessica Seinfeld with Sara Quessenberry. (Gallery Books via AP)

Jessica Seinfeld encourages you to go vegan, no pressure

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Seinfeld became a vegan almost by stealth. The cookbook author and philanthropist started quietly making separate meals for herself without dairy or meat.
 
FILE - Jay Leno attends the Gershwin Prize Honoree's Tribute Concert in Washington on March 4, 2020. Leno is host of “You Bet Your Life,” a reboot of the Groucho Marx game show that debuts Monday on Fox TV stations. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)

Jay Leno bets on reboot of Groucho Marx 1950s game show

If leaving the storied role of “The Tonight Show” host mandates retirement, Jay Leno ignored the memo.
 
FILE - This photo from Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, shows riders on a subway train wearing protective masks due to COVID-19 concerns in New York. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Friday launched a campaign that has celebrities including Jerry Seinfeld, Whoopi Goldberg, and Awkwafina making the announcements heard at subway stations, on trains, and buses. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

MTA brings celebrity voices to NYC transit announcements

NEW YORK (AP) — Riders on New York City subways and buses are getting an earful, thanks to some famous hometown voices.
 
FILE - Kevin Hart, a cast member, producer and co-writer of "Night School," poses at the premiere of the film Sept. 24, 2018, in Los Angeles. Hart will debut his new SiriusXM original podcast with Jerry Seinfeld as the series' inaugural guest. The satellite radio company announced Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, the launch of Hart's "Inside Jokes with Kevin Hart." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Kevin Hart to debut SiriusXM podcast with Seinfeld as guest

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Hart will debut his new SiriusXM original podcast with Jerry Seinfeld as the series’ inaugural guest.
 
FILE - This July 17, 2019 file photo shows Jerry Seinfeld at the "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee," photo call in Beverly Hills, Calif. In Seinfeld's new book, “Is This Anything?” Seinfeld reveals a timeline of jokes he's written over the past 45 years, showing how a 21-year-old kid from New York's Long Island evolved into arguably one of the greatest stand-up comics of his time. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Jerry Seinfeld digs into 45 years of his jokes for new book

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget the high-performance sports cars, the luxury Rolls-Royces and all those other classic automobiles in which Jerry Seinfeld ushers his fellow comics to the diner on television’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
 

For third time this month, Fox News leads all networks

NEW YORK (AP) — Mention prime-time television stars in other ages, and you’d think of Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Harmon or Jennifer Aniston.
 
FILE - In this Feb. 24, 1999 file photo, Mel Brooks, left, and Carl Reiner accept their award for best spoken comedy album, "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000," during the 41st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight man to Mel Brooks’ “2000 Year Old Man,” has died, according to reports. Variety reported he died of natural causes on Monday night, June 29, 2020, at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 98. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Carl Reiner, comedy’s rare untortured genius, dies at 98

NEW YORK (AP) — No one in the world of comedy was more admired, and loved, than Carl Reiner.

Reiner was the rare untortured genius of comedy, his career a story of laughter and camaraderie, of innovation and triumph and affection.
 
Jerry Seinfeld attends the "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee," photo call at The Paley Center for Media, Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Jerry Seinfeld learns from comedy’s best on Netflix series

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Jerry Seinfeld would rather cruise in classic cars and sip coffee with comedy’s best than reboot his uber-successful “Seinfeld” television series.
 

Beekman Hired As Arena’s New GM

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Will Beekman, who led the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts to a new level of prominence the past four years, will start work next week as the new general manager of Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.
 
FILE - In this March 30, 2019 file photo, Chris Rock presents the award for outstanding comedy series at the 50th annual NAACP Image Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Netflix is launching its first audio venture that will feature the video streaming service’s comedy programming on SiriusXM. The companies on Wednesday, April 10 announced “Netflix Is A Joke Radio” will feature highlights from such comedians as Rock, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Wanda Sykes. The channel also will feature segments from future stand-up specials and clips from Netflix’s comedy talk shows. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Netflix launches comedy channel on SiriusXM

NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is launching its first audio venture that will feature the video streaming service’s comedy programming on SiriusXM.
 

Look at it this way The invisible audience heckles

A few years ago, Jerry Seinfeld listened attentively to fellow standup Robert Klein until Klein complimented Art Buchwald and Russell Baker, half of the quartet on the Mount Rushmore of newspaper humor columnists.
 

Chanel’s Lagerfeld channels ancient Egypt with mini-Met Gala

A shiny and glamorous version of ancient Egypt ruled the evening — with entertainment royalty on the runway, too — as Chanel brought its traveling fashion show to New York and the famed Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2013 file photo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus poses for a portrait at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. One of the best-known comedic actresses of her generation, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is receiving the Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy. Louis-Dreyfus will receive the 21st Twain prize Sunday night at Washington’s Kennedy Center, with testimonials from Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Colbert and 2010 Mark Twain recipient Tina Fey. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus gets a top award for comedy

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a 35-year acting career and with two iconic television characters to her name — Elaine Benes of “Seinfeld” and foul-mouthed Vice-President Selina Meyer — Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy.
 
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2013 file photo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus poses for a portrait at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. One of the best-known comedic actresses of her generation, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is receiving the Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy. Louis-Dreyfus will receive the 21st Twain prize Sunday night at Washington’s Kennedy Center, with testimonials from Jerry Seinfeld, Stephen Colbert and 2010 Mark Twain recipient Tina Fey. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus feted for career achievement in comedy

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a 35-year acting career and with two iconic television characters to her name -- Elaine Benes of “Seinfeld” and foul-mouthed Vice-President Selina Meyer--Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy.
 

“Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee” Nears 10th Season

Jerry Seinfeld says the problem with comedians - is that they’re always playing to an audience.

But he says if you can get them when they aren’t trying to be funny, they say interesting things.
 

Demolition begins at Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Demolition has begun on a 3,400-seat theater in northwestern Indiana that has hosted Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and other entertainers over nearly four decades.
 

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Elvis tribute show

Join JZ Tours for dinner and an Elvis tribute show at Radisson at Lackawanna Station Hotel, 700 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton.
 

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld coming to WNPAC

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform his stand-up routine at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 N. Farm to Market Road 1788 in Midland.
 
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017, file photo, Kevin Hart poses at Kevin Hart's "Laugh Out Loud" new streaming video network launch event at the Goldstein Residence in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hart pledged $25,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, and called on fellow celebrities to do the same. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

Kevin Hart calls on fellow stars to help with Harvey relief

HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Hart has made a sizable donation to flood relief efforts in Houston, and he wants some of his famous friends to do the same.
 

Comedian in Car Getting Cash: Seinfeld is Forbes’ top paid

NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes has crowned Jerry Seinfeld as the king of the club when it comes to the highest-paid, stand-up comedians.
 

NW Indiana’s longtime Star Plaza Theatre to be demolished

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The owners of a 3,400-seat theater in northwestern Indiana that’s featured Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock say they’ll demolish the longtime venue after all.
 

Demolition nears for prominent northwestern Indiana hotel

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Demolition is about to start at a prominent northwestern Indiana hotel months after its owner dropped plans to also tear down the neighboring Star Plaza Theatre.
 
FILE - In this May 27, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama looks over the bracket with Duke University basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, where he honored the team. From his campaign fist bump to his theatrical mic drop at the last White House correspondents’ dinner, Barack Obama ruled as America’s pop culture president. His two terms played out like a running chronicle of the trends of our times: slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon, reading mean tweets with Jimmy Kimmel, filling out his NCAA basketball bracket on ESPN, cruising with Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

‘Obama Out': President ending reign as pop culture king

WASHINGTON (AP) — From his campaign fist bump to his theatrical mic drop at the last White House correspondents’ dinner, Barack Obama ruled as America’s pop culture president.
 

Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld to star in benefit

NEW YORK (AP) — More than two years after narrowly escaping death in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, comedian Tracy Morgan is ready to give back, and he’s doing it on a huge stage.
 

3,400-seat theater in northwest Indiana to remain open

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The owners of a 3,400-seat theater in northwest Indiana that has featured top entertainers such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock have changed plans and won’t demolish the facility.