Jim Gaffigan Talks Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted and His Stand-Up Writing Process

Jim Gaffigan talks about starring in Jerry Seinfeld's film Unfrosted, his love for his stand-up writing process and performing at the Hollywood Bowl with Seinfeld, Sebastian Maniscalco and Nate Bargatze.
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[@BasesLoadedLacquer]

i love how seth gets so into it when he's interviewing fellow comedians

[@hawkiowan]

I wish it were coming to theaters, but I will look for it on netflix. Also, big thanks to Jim Gaffigan for helping me and many others get through the lockdown! He streamed his best work throughout

[@anthonymcelroy5368]

I was on my own for six months of lockdown and it was nice of him to post his daily stuff in those days.

[@lynnturman8157]

You can look for it in theatres too. Nobody's stopping you.

[@TomG-f4r]

I came i saw ,I had to run away...Jim g was great grande ,an normal - and just wild an weird an funny ..the family at the table ...wants to be a painting

[@chelonnyamidas]

Jim Gaffigan is a wonderful comedian! It's always great fun to watch his shows, films and interviews.

[@DEILOVEBABY]

The sequel to this movie should be the hot pocket!

[@brownmamma3]

Love Jim Gaffigan

[@MargaretTejeda]

So glad you are here Jimmy you can see

[@kristimeyers2221]

Jim looks fantastic in that suit

[@Jenny_Oblivion]

I’m so excited for this movie!

[@DNTXPCTMCH]

I've loved Jim since he was in Flight of the Conchords. My husband and I still sing FRIENDS to each other😂❤

[@iunderstanphotography2780]

Jim needs a tv show or something! I'd love to see more of him

[@sesa2984]

“Stop writing” is a pretty ok response to elicit from a fighting wife. I usually get something more like “Stop living here."

[@masterofallgoons]

That's better than 'stop living.'

[@lawrencemills354]

Love Gaffigan! ❤️❤️

[@JonnyDIY]

Hollywood bowl!??? Damnit I missed it already 😓😭

[@hayleym2122]

Please please please can a Stepbrothers sequel be made with Jim Gaffigan as the new younger step brother (because their mother remarried again) he would be so funny and so perfect!

[@NewMessage]

Pop tarts? Surely he should do a movie about the origin of hot pockets, right?

[@cbpd89]

Pop tarts are just hot pockets for dessert.

[@liamn.7664]

yeah bro i already know that’s gonna be his next movie 💀💀

[@dannynysus]

No, Jim has already milked the hot pocket teat dry ...and don't call me "Shirley"

[@dameladytracy]

Dizactly

[@masterofallgoons]

​@@cbpd89- Well breakfast, but yeah

[@captainez]

New Orleans Jazz Festival is a foodie dream,and my second stop being Mrs Wheeties Meat Pies from Natchitoches La

[@bubblesezblonde]

Nice Interview Seth.

[@esmereldapinchon1422]

He was great in that movie.

[@h7opolo]

I've such a fan.

[@Jivolt]

A movie about Pop Tarts without Brian Regan? To quote Taggart, “I am depressed.”

[@wesleybush8646]

Jerry Seinfeld had a bit about it in his last Netflix special, too. If not, it might have been part of the one where he went over his standup career.

[@patdwyer5281]

How about Paula Poundstone?

[@Jivolt]

@@patdwyer5281 So ya been reading Tiger Beat?

[@rocknral]

Ok guys, you all need to try an Aussie meat pie. Now that is a culinary delight.

[@totalhorse6987]

The kind of attitude that ends with LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

[@masterofallgoons]

He's already cosplaying that character.

[@elbruces]

Are you citing the Chris Farley character?

[@marvinmartin4692]

Anyone remember Jim on a law and order episode?

[@annapolack8207]

Yes!

[@annapolack8207]

Stephen Colbert too

[@Zig_Was_Here]

Can’t wait to see this flick!

[@carina9295]

it’s a pay-TV movie; only the screen flicks

[@Zig_Was_Here]

@@carina9295, obviously a seasoned jackal barking

[@NewMessage]

For a second, I thought someone finally made a movie out of 'Reid Fleming, world's toughest milkman'

[@toonhead5003]

Yes! Chugging Fathertime Bourbon as he makes deliveries! 😂

[@sblack48]

damn Jim's a GREAT actor. Jerry, well, as he has publicly said, he can't act unless he's playing Jerry Seinfeld. But he's still funny. The problem I see with this movie is that there are so many great easter eggs for us boomers - all the characters, the parallels with the space race etc - but nobody under 50 will get them. I wonder if the invention of the pop tart was coincident with the beginning of the obesity epidemic?

[@margicates553]

It was a silly goofy satire. Full of great comedic actors. Bits on bits on bits.

[@Cream_Sleaze]

Jim is the Pale Rider

[@annunciataparchesi1832]

Paula Poundstone is the iconic pop tart comedian. How could Jerry leave her out?

[@BuildinWings]

Child abuse is how.

[@annunciataparchesi1832]

@@BuildinWings Bullshit!

[@BuildinWings]

She pled guilty. Sit down, monster.

[@posthocprior]

Jerry Seinfeld has been acting for 40 years and he gives the impression that he's been doing it for 4 days.

[@arthurott4561]

He's too busy being a smarmy a-hole who thinks he invented comedy.

[@SamShortYaDig]

He hasn’t acted in 20 years…

[@posthocprior]

@@SamShortYaDig Of course this isn't true. Of course.a simple search on IMDB shows that he's acted many, many times in the past 20 years. Of course, of course, of course...

[@jheniellebrown2894]

Correction Seth. They are called Jamaican Beef Patties.

[@noelhutchins7366]

I want to see Jim Gaffigan as an actual-horror-staple because he can deliver a stupid pun, or comedic-pander, in a situation of Horror-Action-Exposition because that was his previous job; at night, he could be walking slowly toward teenagers holding an obvious weapon, so they all scatter into the forest-&-woods, fall into a mine-shaft, poke their own eyes out on branch-tips, flop into a ravine, off a cliff, into a den, into rapids, quicksand-mud, "Hey guys I found a weapon, You loose this?"; but they're busy dying.

[@SCR917]

I see Wally's nephews, James and Jack Feresten, too.

[@jrpipik]

It's weird to see Jim without a beard in that clip. He suddenly looks like my dad.

[@iallan]

No mention of an Aussie meat pie?

[@CorgyOntoppya]

What unfortunate timing to have to plug a Seinfeld project.

[@BuildinWings]

What, you don't like hearing a 70 year-old billionaire who slept with a minor complain about "PC police" from "extreme leftists"

[@Ben-311]

Right? After that skeet shooting incident with the baby ducks on dialysis, it was hard to watch.

[@sportbikejesus]

If Brian Regan isn’t in this movie I’m calling the cops

[@StephenMintz]

Jim Gaffigan - 57 years old Seinfeld? 70. Who looks younger? See what too many kids will do to ya? 😅

[@BuildinWings]

Seinfeld also slept with a minor when he was 40.

[@JeremyForTheWin]

Or what being a billionaire several times over can prevent.

[@lynnturman8157]

pop tart pocket

[@Phil-tt3xg]

Wally is the second funniest one on the show.

[@zealotestheaussie5880]

Anyhow…keep it real…eat local. So Karl comes into Per Se with his Ray LaMontagne beard and a tweed jacket on with a gold pocket watch and a walking cane and he sits down and starts in, “So fellow patriot, you know how I want to win the Pulitzer Prize for my book, ‘Babar Goes to Washington’ and then become a politician like young Pulitzer? Well, I’ve just read Pulitzer’s biography and he said that State Legislatures were ‘a seething cesspool of legislative faith; men good bad corrupt, and designing schemers dupes plotters, diminutive Richelieus, Mazarins and petty Wolseleys - all after self’ so I don’t think he liked politicians much, and when one called Augustine insulted him, Pulitzer went to the dude’s hotel and shot him in the leg! Bro…Pulitzer was a kickass Hungarian street fighter, but I’m a peacenik pacifist street poet from Greenwich Village. I think I’ll just settle for ‘Bronx Bugle Best New Children’s Book Award’ for Babar and be happy. Pass the Krystal will ya?!” And I say, Karl…Pulitzer shot that Augustine dude as he tried to brass-knuckle Pulitzer and he got off with an $11.50 fine for disturbing the peace. Grow some cajones compadre. (lol)

[@Zoe-c9z]

He is no beelzebub

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

Why is Seth talking so fast?

[@Zoe-c9z]

I think his bourbon looks like Full Throttle

[@Zoe-c9z]

Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light

[@kimthomas9836]

It’s a POP TART, people. They are not bombing Gaza with them!

[@waryaawariiri1812]

At 0:33: Jerry's facial acting still lacks real acting.

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

His comedy also lacks laughter

[@paulk5670]

​@@archmage_of_the_aetherMethinks you're jealous. His bank account doesn't lack at all.

[@rprebel]

@@paulk5670 Because as we all know, your bank balance dictates your ability as a comedian. Seinfeld was funny in the '90s but he's turned into an old man yelling at clouds. It's sad... almost as sad as trying to defend someone by bringing up their finances.

[@BuildinWings]

@@paulk5670 By your logic, Ray Kroc is the world's best chef.

[@paulk5670]

@@BuildinWings Ray Kroc was a very successful businessman. To your underlying point, McDonalds probably does have some of the best chefs/food science experts in the world on the payroll. They designed menus with highly palatable food that is able to be made with a hugh degree of consistency worldwide despite hiring minimum wage workers and different available regional supply chains.

[@JohnnyVee007]

Jerry Seinfeld? No thanks

[@withershin]

Melissa McCarthy. Sorry boys when the current Queen of Comedy shows up you two get lost.

[@BuildinWings]

If you like her, I wouldn't go too hard reminding people she's in this. This has "bomb" written all over it.

[@courtney-ray]

lol 😂 I love Jim’s comedy but what the heck is a “Jamaican meat pie” supposed to be? 🥴 Does he mean a Jamaican BEEF PATTY? 🤣

[@ccwoodlands1565]

The movie trailer just wasn't funny to me. I really wanted it to be...but it wasn't.

[@fredricclack7137]

🌌 Food Stix! TANG! 😏

[@BuildinWings]

This movie looks 'CATS'-level bad.

[@btk72491]

It doesn’t have those nightmarish costumes and the awful music of Andrew Lloyd Webber so it won’t be close to that bad

[@BuildinWings]

@@btk72491 Watch Bee Movie. Then tell me how good a filmmaker Jerry is.

[@sirdouglas2010]

I love Gaffigan but Seinfeld sucks.

[@zotfotpiq]

i thought i just saw Seinfeld dressed in male drag shopping for real estate in the west bank. i hate guys that do that.

[@UncleJimmi_ID]

How dare you disparage an persuasion of Caribbean meat pies?!?! *Unsubscribe* 😤 Jokes aside though, the dough used to make meat pies is a little more involved than one might think. Okay, climbing down off my soapbox now...

[@latenitecaptain]

The term Foodie is dumb. Show me one starving family over in yousopoorinlife calling themselves a Foodie. Dumb term.

[@BuildinWings]

Even more privileged that this qualifies as a problem to you.