Jason Alexander and Bob Talk “Seinfeld” and Evolving as Comedic Performers Via Rapid Social Change

This week Bob is joined by actor, Jason Alexander, best known for his iconic role of George Costanza on Seinfeld. Jason reminisces about his time on Seinfeld and lets us in on if there will be a reboot or not. Bob and Jason reflect on the evolution of comedy over the past few decades as we've seen so much social change. Tune in to learn about Jason's time on Broadway in the '80s and find out what drew him to become an activist!
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BOB SAGET’S HERE FOR YOU is a podcast that is like no other- Because it goes inside Bob’s Saget’s mind, and then quickly filters out through his mouth. Bob has a way of calming people with genuine empathy and humor while they’re going through a difficult time, which we all are at present. Reaching his unusually diverse audience that he talks to as a friend, Bob is the dad with great advice, the irreverent funny guy who’s always there when you need a laugh, and the free-associative Bob who goes off on crazy tangents then returns to the subject at hand, as serious or as comedic as it may be, to wrap up each episode in a way only Bob can do. Because he really does believe, “He’s here for you."
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[@banjofett3949]

Seinfeld is forever complete, no need for any reboot, glad its on netflix for more people to enjoy. Thanks for interviewing Jason, Bob. This podcast is great!

[@Will-ge7ri]

Your mom’s on Netflix

[@billblaski9523]

Agree, I think the reunion they had on Curb Your Enthusiasm was perfect way to bring Seinfeld back without bringing Seinfeld back lol

[@christineperez7562]

I never liked Seinfeld until now that I am old. lol

[@lizi.2503]

@@Will-ge7ri that's how she met his father

[@anthonyalvarado6465]

RIP BOB ! WE LOVE YOU AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR ALL THE ENTERTAINMENT YOU GAVE US

[@freedom4063]

I still don't believe it. Gunna take me time..I'm in shock mode still.. I'm thinking he was poisoned 😢

[@christineperez7562]

Why am I just finding your pod cast now that you are not here? I guess your pod cast is healing for us all. You even have Ed on your pod cast.

[@bsfan6150]

Love you always, Bob

[@aarongall9191]

If this were on a major network in the 90's it would break TV. Amazing gem hiding on KZbin at the moment.

[@goldierule1350]

Wow, I never would have recognized Jason. He looks amazing. I like that Jason pointed out the physical comedy of "Kramer". I felt like one of the all time greatest physical comedic actors was John Ritter as "Jack" on Threes Company. He is another talented, kind, & funny man that passed away far too soon. This was fun to watch these two very funny guys. They have a magical connection. Bob is the sweetest man & losing him is a huge loss for the world. My heart goes out to all of his loved ones. 🙏💙R.I.P. Bob💙🙏

[@treasurethetime2463]

Jason was so good, I've seen other actors on a panel accidentally call him "George". That is quite a compliment.

[@dewittsnyder4212]

He’s definitely in the top 300 best comedians! Love you Bob!

[@TheGeekAuthority]

Having seen Mr. Alexander in The Producers in LA, I know what quadruple talent threat he is first hand. Singer, dancer, actor and comic genius! This interview was a pure warmth to watch. Mr. Saget you two should work together because if your onstage personas is half as fun and inviting as your off screen charms are - whatever you two did would be no doubt wildly entertaining for a million reasons! Thank you guys! This was fun!

[@tetromiNolz]

Love you, Bob. 💜

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

24:50 The ending of The Marine Biologist episode is my favorite Seinfeld scene of all time. I die every time I see it. And they wrote it on the spot! No rehearsal.

[@BrickTop06]

Bob, you are always feeling. You seem forever on the verge of tears and I say that in the most endearing way. It's rare to find someone in Hollywood who is so down to Earth and genuine.

[@vc9482]

WHY did I not know about this podcast until now? Eff you algorithm!!!!

[@dang.3677]

Great interview, highly recommended! Whether you're a fan of Bob Saget, Seinfeld or Jason Alexander check it out. I first heard of Bob back in the '80s when he was doing his hilarious stand-up routine. I didn't find out until watching this video that he's done many other similar videos which are probably just as good or better than this. Rest in peace Bob Saget.

[@jonnygranville281]

Jason Alexander was a part of my childhood as a teenager in Seinfeld. I still say Coooooo-stanza!

[@mayaforester880]

You're talking about the Bbbbyyy Meno! Bit?! Because that is literally something that randomly drives me nuts!

[@L_E_L_0_U_P]

You've always been one of the more pleasant voices in my ears the last 30 years, thanks Bob. Cannot stop watching Norm videos though.

[@magnetmannenbannanen]

Love you both Bob and Alex. im watching reruns of seinfeld right now on netflix, still funny.

[@celebvillage]

Unbelievable…an awful start to 2022. Long live our beloved ‘Danny Tanner.’ Bob Saget, May 17, 1956 - January 9, 2022. Rest in peace to one of our childhood heroes ❤

[@JoeCroninSHOW]

BOB I'm 37 enjoyed your whole career I'd love to hope on a podcast with you some day. My father died when I was 8 can't tell ya how comforting funniest videos and full house were for me and my mom. Along with star trek ha...but I also have a wild sense of humor and always appreciate how over the edge you went sometimes. It's a gift to be able to be so wholesome but then be a sick bastard at times. Love it all keep it going sir.

[@wasteofspace20]

God bless you Bob, the stories Norm told of your kindness and encouragement in Ottawa were moving in their sincerity and ring true to your personality on your podcast and when we interact with you after your shows. You’ve always been a gentleman and an unselfish and considerate soul. Best to your kids and loved ones, cherish every day!

[@cassidybb10]

Bob you have to up your gain. The volume is so low. Lol. Love the show

[@LUNCHQUEST]

This is the perfect podcast.

[@LUNCHQUEST]

Not the podcast as a whole but in this specific podcast

[@lifestyles2482]

Why didn’t I know about this? Dammit. You know, it always hits home when we lose ppl we cared for. No matter if they were personal friends or not. Media is so powerful. And then we find out how amazing some of these folks are on top of that. But the point is, go out and support these ppl if u love what they do. They won’t be here forever. Bands break up, ppl change, accidents happen and ppl pass away. Don’t wait. Support the joy. RIP Bob

[@pinkycorpuz2618]

so right…..i feel like i lost an essential part of my childhood….he was America’s father…..am going through all his episodes now and feel the loss more….but appreciative he did this treasure for us to discover and remember him by…..RIP Bob

[@jaygoCWP]

I have been to Mr. Saget's stand up multiple times, re-read his book twice, and have purchased one of his Cameos...his podcast is, of course, top tier as everything else he does. Now if only I could get him to produce a movie....jk LOVED Dirty Work!

[@MysticMountainGems]

Great show Sag...Thanks again! 🤘🏻🖤💥

[@JohnKimble-k8z]

Jason...we all know you are the greatest comedic TV actor of all time. Don't worry about the emmy

[@jban4457]

Thank God he didn't win the Emmy. Awards are for people/productions that NEED more exposure... Jason Alexander was popular from day one. Same reason some of the best looking actors or the most blockbuster films win zero awards... they just don't need it.

[@mayaforester880]

Idk, Lisa Kudrow....did you see them opposite each other on FRIENDS?

[@bengorraou2602]

still the best and funniest sitcom ever

[@rudistorm3348]

Yes Full House was the best!

[@VictorsValiant]

love this show bob

[@califcamper]

Damn Bob your no longer Here for us, RIP my friend...

[@aranjenkins2627]

I love the Seinfeld finale more as time passes.

[@debbieskrletts725]

Good one! Very entertaining

[@georgesotiriou7051]

The blurred thing. It's not working at all.

[@jacobbaranowski]

Rip Bob Saget 🙏 miss you 😭

[@ethanharding4470]

Love you bob

[@littleripper312]

I know he's not doing it to blow up on KZbin but I'm so confused why it's not more popular. He's done a ton of episodes, they're good quality, he's famous so I don't get it. Oh well, I'm glad he does because they're nice to listen to.

[@VikramSingh-wm9zo]

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, the evening tv? How did I get delivered here? Somebody tell me please Cause this old world is just really confusing me Clouds as mean as you've ever seen Ain't a bird that knows your tune Then a little voice inside of you whispers "Kid, don't sell your dreams so soon!" Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a heart (there's a heart), a hand to hold onto Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a face (there's a face) of somebody who needs you Whatever happened to the good old days? Talking to friends for hours, swore it'd never go away Now I'm feeling a little crazy, trying to fit in with a scene Cause how do you know where you're going, if you really don't know who you've been? Everybody eventually Says that they're as lost as you So everybody shout it together "Hey, don't sell your dreams so soon!" Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a heart (there's a heart), a hand to hold onto Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a face (there's a face) of somebody who needs you Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a heart (there's a heart), a hand to hold onto Everywhere you look When you're lost out there and you're all alone A light is waiting to carry you home Everywhere you look... RIP

[@hereticerik]

He was also Duckman. :)

[@christianterrill3503]

RIP Bob you will be missed

[@BudFuddlacker]

Why are the backgrounds blurred?

[@christopherallen9580]

great podcast Bob!

[@matthewoberton1830]

Rest in Peace Bob

[@lauriLokkeni9002]

What a great interview guys.. love ❤️ to you both

[@dryherbvoter]

Interesting conversations, Bob Saget & Jason Alexander.

[@fatandbaldwithglasses1287]

Jason looks great !

[@mayaforester880]

How can two people who fundamentally shaped my life only have 79 likes?! I got Will Shatner to respond to me once on Twitter (I totally misinterpreted his intentions, was rude and then apologized to no avail) and I was initially over the moon then still over the moon when I realized I messed it up...my point is you guys are literally rock stars and I love y'all

[@brentulstad3275]

Love you Bob and thanks again for the great words & pictures after Norms passing. Looking forward to this one with Jason. I would hope that some of the so-called "activists" of today could take a hint of influence from Jason Alexander on the importance of humility, nuance, integrity and authenticity.

[@andywagoner]

Bob's audio and Jason's audio varied too much. if it turned it up to hear Bob, Jason was too loud. If I turned Jason down, then I cold hardly hear Bob.

[@euanuglowisdead]

I have it turned up to ELEVEN and I can't hear Saget

[@AnthonyP73]

John O'Hurley who played J. Peterman on Seinfeld says that Jason Alexander drove the show. Over the years I've come to realise that as well, hope it's ok to post this, here is the interview kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4XCqISJZdaksJo

[@mayaforester880]

Oh and btw- I didn't even know Norm and I have been so sad...I can't even imagine where you are. I'm so touched by your love for your friend. Genuinely I am tearing up remembering not only Norm and my own love but also the feeling I remember losing my own. I really feel for YOU, dude, you obviously loved the guy for real.

[@Astarkiller]

Don’t listen to the haters you do you Bob and speak as often as you can/want, we love ur voice and ur humor is as always spot on and hilarious, u give us memories of Norms humor he shines/reflects off of you.

[@robertstewart239]

Please turn up the volume.

[@goldilox369]

Ooooooooh I thought it was just me. Thanks.

[@alexmasswell5905]

RIP Bob

[@michaelhogman27]

Awesome!

[@IamMcpuffin]

Sup Happy Monday yall

[@danschillin8558]

I'm consistently blown back with this pod. I'm not trying to blow smoke, but I took so much positivity from this one. Thanks for bringing some light to those of us that needed it. You two vibe wicked well

[@jban4457]

I'm trying not to smoke too.

[@Will-ge7ri]

Your mom bored wicked smoke

[@kylegushue]

Fun stuff.

[@animan127]

Great interview Bob but you gotta fix your audio, could barely hear him the whole ep

[@Crazy4BobSaget]

I hear him okay

[@jban4457]

You do what Paul Lynde would do on Squares... Say BOTH the funny answer and the serious one.

[@cococinnamon2236]

If you listen to Jason Alexander and younger Bob Saget they sound a like

[@chrislargent1725]

George costanza was my evil spirt guide . I love George and I love Jason Alexander

[@gentlestorm]

Fun talk, the blurred backgrounds are very distracting though.

[@MrReyRey]

I see the loss of norm in your eyes I've lost friends in bad ways to. I have good days and bad days about it but i would never change it.

[@Crazy4BobSaget]

I do too and same with me

[@Siggy_Sour]

George and Kramer made the show

[@trapez77]

I want a Seinfeld movie

[@prince13896]

So let's have that Zoom meeting... let's have that Zoom meeting.

[@rudistorm3348]

The problem with the How I met your Mother Finale was that the whole series was just this ridicuously goofy comedy and then the last episode turn serious and dark. It would be like Alice killing Norton on the last episode of the Honey Mooners.

[@LeemanBrothaz]

I don’t remember if full house had a proper finale? I don’t think they did, which I’m surprised saget didn’t harp further on that treasure that Seinfeld had.

[@joshuapinkham2925]

Yea Seinfeld didn't have the best ending but Jason said it best. Everyone has their own opinion. BUT Friends had one of the best endings to a show that big. That was super impressive.

[@psykkoman]

Anyone else sad when they looked for the really no really podcast and it is no where to be found?

[@psykkoman]

And how has this only had 20k views?

[@bakerel-jenabi7217]

I watch Steinfeld

[@troubleondemand7703]

You kids and your Nancy Walkers. In my day I was all about Betty Walker!

[@tsmcghee8907]

The kind of banter these pretentious types have showcases the genius of Norm more than anything else. Norm never did a "hmm what else can we do," he was just funny.

[@ToyLatrine]

This times a fuckin million

[@Bibbly53]

Sarcasm and facetious self-obsession has diverted a lot of what would have been otherwise constructive social evolution, instead turns into a personalized echo chamber that exacerbates personality dysfunctions. Thoughts and feelings aren't real but now we're culpable for both if they result in someone acting out? That's isn't even reality. Yet its the present. There's been no pumping of breaks, or a breaking down of these constructs so people who may have been thinking they're in an elevator for years, can have a moment to realize they're stuck in a vestibule that they enter and exit ceaselessly without gain, promise, premise, and the result of it has been an entire diversionary tactic manifesting as self-discovery and personal-reason itself. Comedy helps people, if it fits with the times, in a way that helps people realize they have a moment to reflect and sometimes that reflection happens in other ways, because of course it does. However comedy can help people navigate certain aspects of life difficult to contend with or in these times difficult to discuss.

[@Bibbly53]

I could have posted like 5 or maybe a dozen more paragraphs of somewhat related contextual things across this talk. Looking forward to Quadrapeenia. Bless you both.

[@cassidybb10]

I gotta be honest. I wanted to finish this video. But I couldn't hear you Bob.

[@saraw112]

I remember first hearing Bob’s stand up and I was shocked at the filth. Didn’t find it funny at all. It completely changed my opinion of him. May God rest his soul.

[@alanvallazza9781]

For me it was a 2002 Tribute To Rodney Dangerfield.

[@skellvarnsen23]

rad

[@2010ChargerRT]

Can’tstandya

[@somebodyandthem]

Rip bobby

[@gregjarnigan3515]

An enjoyable conversation to be sure, but I'm always bothered by old men who dye their hair jet-black. Age gracefully, gentlemen.

[@deej20007]

And the Botox doesn't help.

[@Historian212]

Alas, they’re under a lot of pressure to look young (even the guys), because Hollywood is way behind the curve on stuff like that. To most of us, it’s grotesque, but they live in that world. PS I think calling them “old men” wouldn’t help your case. They’d probably joke that they’re old, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.

[@thedonofthsht76-58]

They want to look good who cares? Bob looks like he did 20 years ago

[@spencerhutchison547]

Dorks

[@denny3161]

Rhodas mom

[@ToyLatrine]

damn we lost another one

[@SeveredLegs]

"Conservatives are afraid of change?" Come on...that's lame. Saget's follow-up take was good. Comedy evolves as individual people do. But what's actually going on right now isn't that people are "more open-minded" and conservatives are afraid to embrace this...it's that now, if you make the wrong joke (usually the right joke, in fact) someone will try to damage your career in order to make themselves feel morally superior, or to capitalize politically/socially.

[@Historian212]

The word “conservative” means to conserve what is. It’s the definition of resisting change. If you don’t like the definition, go argue with the dictionary.

[@SeveredLegs]

@@Historian212 that ignores the reason for wanting to conserve. Is it fear of change? Or is it a hesitancy to change something that's working? Or conserving things that are philosophically sound? Must be fear omg

[@aintgonnahappen]

"conservatives are afraid of change" SMH.. The woke libs/celebs, man.

[@dexter420rocko3]

I thought bob sagget died is this a Mandela affect

[@YoFxlconOfficial]

well, he just passed away.

[@jban4457]

Everybody loves Nancy Walker!!! I loved her even before Rhoda. I believe she was a stage actress who went into T.V. commercials in the late 60s.

[@not_emerald]

Is there a timestamp for when political discussion ends? I really can't get myself to care about what George Costanza has to say about climate change or whatever

[@Historian212]

Best interview with Jason Alexander out there. Nice to see both these guys looking relaxed and natural. Jason’s looking slimmer than he’s been in a long time. Bad sound levels aside, very enjoyable listen. So wonderful to hear him mention Ben Vereen in Pippin. I’m about Jason’s age, and saw that performance. Vereen was one of the greatest performers of all time. His TV performances don’t begin to highlight his incredible abilities and presence. I was also lucky to see Vereen play Judas in the original Broadway cast of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” I had a girl-crush on him from that day (I was 14 years old). I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to witness and see what pure magic is onstage, and respect JA even more now for invoking Mr. Vereen, gone way too young.

[@richardlacey4923]

Greetings from New Orleans ..digging the interviews and commentary!

[@cassidybb10]

Jason said it. If they are hyper sensitive...who cares if they are hyper sensitive.