O&A - Jason Alexander's Twitter & Gays Messing With Comedy

7.08.2011 Show. Twitter.com/Opieradio Twitter.com/AnthonyCumia Twitter.com/JimNorton Twitter.com/TheRealHolic120

[@bignation1979]

I loved Jason Alexander when he was singing & dancing in the McDLT commercial.

[@RA-VEN8]

With the Don Johnson jacket on. Lol

[@coltononline]

Rumor has it, Alexander actually tried to change some of the writing during the beginnings of Seinfeld and LD told him to stfu...

[@Spootnik]

Poor Jason, the character he hated become more liked than himself. That man must be tortured everytime someone recognizes him

[@CHR1SV1DS]

how sad is it that Jason Alexander is less relevant than Michael Richards?

[@green2blue309]

CHR1SV1DS I think he cameo’d on Star Trek Voyager, arguably the worst of the Treks, if that says anything...

[@RA-VEN8]

@@green2blue309 Yeah he played some alien character.

[@Blarsen780]

"Pebbles-flowers-coffee." -Jason Alexander

[@SHlTTER]

Listening to this in early July makes it feel current.

[@24FlyChy]

The Irony of Anthony talking about Kramer tweets🤣😂

[@1844Freddy]

This is my new favorite bit!!!

[@TrevBoyThe2nd]

Ok Opie, youre in a bad mood. WE GET IT.

[@jamauln1]

As if any 'tweet' have ever been of any real significance.

[@mattdsgone]

about as significant as this comment, if not more...

[@heySTUPIDass]

@@mattdsgoneand your reply. Jesus christ, the irony of the internet wowwwww

[@ehcmier]

Just to put it out there: George Castanza is Larry David. Jason didn't know that at first, but that's who he was eventually channeling as George, and whose words he was speaking anyway. Anyone looking for Castanza-funny needs to look to Larry.

[@sunnyofabish7835]

Got some great clips on this page!

[@Wats3d]

"Power of the Twitter" really?

[@sexywhitebriefs]

maybe jason alexander tweets stuff that makes no sense because he knows people will obsess over them

[@IndifferentBookWorm]

Why the fuck does anyone think Kevin James can act? He's a worse actor than Adam Sandler.

[@merces47letifer4]

What, you don't think the wild, wacky fat guy character he always plays isn't FUCKING HILARIOUS. WHATTTT?!

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

whenever I see Kevin James I think damn I miss Chris Farley

[@petersmith1143]

Come on, King of Queens was a funny sitcom.

[@petersmith1143]

l33tcpu no, she wasn't

[@matthewzablocki5310]

IndifferentBookWorm grow tf up

[@ericanton7]

I was under the impression Jeff Ross picked the daeus for the comedy Central roasts. Is that not the case?

[@perseus9428]

daeus ?

[@TheWhizzkid23]

@jhohcable vandelay industries?

[@JonChampaigne]

I corrected that some time ago. I type sudo a lot in one day, and pseudo not so much - so that was the reason for the mistake. Just by taking a closer look you should have been able to follow what I was saying. That is context, also something that one tends to learn in high school. I am not writing for a grade, every once in awhile there will be a mistake, learn to get over it, and find a point.

[@ThePhudD]

Yeah how come O&A never mention LD or Curb.

[@redzeppelin6]

They are pretty gay cars

[@Wharrrrrgarbl]

Yeah I didn't say you HAVE to be funny to be a good comedic actor, but there's just very rarely a disconnect between the two, in Jason Alexander's case the disconnect is huge. "DEAD WRONG" is probably a slight overstatement.

[@Snoofalah]

I hear the Jason Alexander joke, I don't laugh. I hear Chip tell the Jason Alexander joke, and I'm dying. Why

[@Snoofalah]

I'm amazed you know what sarcasm is considering I just gave the perfect example in my useless comment.

[@Snoofalah]

Should I put a disclaimer on my comment saying "Warning: Sarcasm?"

[@anonymousguy1188]

This doesnt really fit as sarcasm unless you really mean that you don't find it funny when Chip says it. So right now either way this comment seems to be written by a complete idiot who either actually needs it explained why he finds the funny thing funny, or needs sarcasm explained.

[@RancorousC]

@bodidarma505 What does sudo mean.

[@ThaWiseJester]

-They were Kevin James fan but the whole selling out doing cheesy movies compared to classic episodes to KOQ is hard to grasp

[@funeralbillii9172]

Telling the world that a word hurts you, pushes you over the edge or bothers you means that you are weak. Grow up! If a word bothers you that's your problem, deal with it internally and quietly.

[@civilhand5837]

Go fuck yourself.

[@em129836]

lol I don't know why Opie's description on cars and gayness is so damn funny to me

[@Wharrrrrgarbl]

Generally to be a good comedy actor you have to have a good sense of humour, or at least some vague understanding of comedy. I think that's what's so baffling about his twitter to some people. He has great comic timing on Seinfeld, he knows exactly how to deliver his jokes, he clearly gets the jokes and knows why they're funny, which should suggest he has a good sense of humour, but the jokes on his twitter are shockingly bad.

[@GreenHornet553]

The comedy comes from Larry David

[@PrivateAckbar]

The thing is; the fact that he used to be funny, and now he's changed to this, means that there's something really deep going on with this guy that he could be talking about. These inane tweets are like the longest nervous breakdown in history.

[@SKa-tt9nm]

You talking about opie, right?

[@LambertBowden56]

No

[@ShiksaWithChutzpah1]

I watched Jason Alexander on Shatner's "Raw Nerve" talk show. J.A. was the most boring, uninteresting interview I've ever seen.

[@kingseanp9267]

Jimmy bringing up Matthew Shepard case shows how little informed the general public still is on this topic. Everyone bought the quick media story of “hate and gay bashing” because it was the easy sell. A quick look into the background of events shows a person (Shepard) charged in the past with sexual assault on a minor, a meth addict and dealer who was tied into a larger organization in Colorado, he had history with at least one of the men (McKinney) who was also a male hustler, and both men shared with the murder have maintained the crime had nothing to do Shepard’s sexuality but was two addicts ripping off a low level dealer. Even the prosecutor said this was about greed. To hear the GLAD and leftist-media tell the story, it was two good ‘ol’ boys ranch hands who saw a faggot and just had two kill him. The whole story is bullshit.

[@theoriginaltommysteward]

Hahaha he's actually ten times worse now.

[@crunchzor]

pseudo*

[@zacklyzun]

joe rogan is suposed to play the bad guy in the zoo keeper i wonder if he will come in to promote the movie

[@Wharrrrrgarbl]

How is knowing what is and isn't funny not a useful skill when it comes to writing funny things, on twitter or otherwise? What a stupid thing to say. Do you have to be Larry David to write/say funny things..? No. I'm saying that ALMOST EVERYONE who can act funny/be a good character in a comedy is somewhat funny in real life. Obviously there are exceptions to this, everybody knows this, it's just particularly surprising with Jason Alexander because the gap between him and George is so huge.

[@mikeodonnell6799]

yeah Jen looked so hot in that scene.

[@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg]

LOL Opie talking about someone not being funny. Oh man.

[@PanikGrafik]

sudo? You mean Pseudo?

[@ecartman89]

peebles flowers coffee

[@billcarrig9434]

Pebbles.

[@williamroy87]

I think he means the linux command -sudo for user permissions. Bigger questions is: What the heck does "pseudo" have to do with Anthony Cumia? He's the funniest guy on the planet.

[@RancorousC]

@bodidarma505 sudo...?

[@anthoniemadsen7673]

Waow, Dana White and Justin Bieber. That's just sad 💔

[@JustinBlazzzee]

Jason Alexander’s problem is he has no charisma. He’s a good actor. He’s really funny when someone writes funny lines for him. But take away a good script and man is he boring.

[@perseus9428]

He's in great company with Robert De Niro and a few other A list actors, then.

[@JustinBlazzzee]

@@perseus9428 The difference is De Niro doesn’t try to be interesting off camera. He couldn’t care less and it’s very apparent. No one tries harder than Costanza.

[@MrTbomb78]

@caltrof And it really bothers me that he is now,Ive been listing since wnew and he was always my favorite. I loved his sense of humor and the cringe moments he created but over the past couple years he just seems very bitter and kinda like Howard always bitchin.

[@caltrof]

@MrTbomb78 You think so? Never occurred to me that Opie wanted to be in movies.

[@Wharrrrrgarbl]

Ugh you're just being extremely obtuse now. I'm not saying it's NOT POSSIBLE for him to not be funny outside the show or on twitter. The point of the video is that the difference between his level of humour on the show and on here is surprising/funny. Also I didn't say most people who know good comedy are good comedians. I said most people who are good comedy actors know what is and isn't funny. It's a pretty useful skill for them to have, being comedy actors...

[@chikowashere]

Jesus Christ you can really tell how terrible the show would be if Opie was on his own. He immediately took a call that killed the momentum, and then talked about soup. No wonder he doesn't have a solo gig nowadays.

[@ammagnolia]

Yeah well you wanna know what happened behind the scenes. That's right you don't even know what's going on behind the scenes..... Leave it alone. He's been doing this since 18. Leave it alone

[@JonChampaigne]

@RancorousC

[@greghouse1234]

sudo? pseudo

[@booates]

What with this he's not a comedian shit, these tweets aren't even normal guy funny or even interesting or anything.

[@caltrof]

@MrTbomb78 I agree. He's a bit of a diva.

[@Wharrrrrgarbl]

Are you honestly saying you think all the other actors in Seinfeld are unfunny and boring in real life? Michael Richards is obviously not to everybody's tastes and is mostly pretty tacky and unfunny (and once weirdly racist), but he still knows how to be funny sometimes. He understands humour. Jason Alexander clearly does not.

[@MrTbomb78]

@caltrof Maybe not so much movies,but definatly the Hollywood scene thats just what I have picked up on over the past couple yrs

[@JonChampaigne]

I don't know are you . You are comparing apples to oranges there, you are not putting your views on a national radio station. And you are not expressing, at-least in what you have said here, that you have some comedic expectation of him to begin with. But maybe you do the subconscious is a tricky thing.

[@23Stork]

8:40 Opie really doesn't get humour at all. Even bad humour goes over his head.

[@RMChEa]

ant just goes aaahhh

[@ammagnolia]

Leave it alone!!!!

[@DanFromMerdo]

When did they turn on Kevin James?

[@bngmob]

I thought Seinfeld was a corny show, but that's my opinion. I know a lot of people that like it. I've watched it many times and it is just another 90s sitcom. But I won't deny they are rich as fuck and I would swap places in a minute.

[@jarodgoff5873]

Hmmm why don’t you let us know what you actually think is not corny, cause masterbation jokes, belittling immigrants, and robbing old ppl all on prime time television in the 90s sounds pretty corny...I think you confuse clothes and style with content

[@JeffaMorrison]

Jimmy is John Lennon, Anthony is Paul McCartney, and Opie is Mark David Chapman

[@SBV123]

Every now and then Opie tries to do that "brother" shit and it makes me punch my wall in frustration.

[@VerifiedFiveIron]

People should annoy Opie more often. He's hilarious when he's pissed off.

[@TheRealBamboonga]

Bieber follows 116,000 accounts?!? WTF??? Don't you have to actually manually click on somebody to follow them? If you follow one account every day, it'd take *over 300 years* to do that!!!

[@smurf1548]

05:47 opie silence .... wha what ?

[@MrTbomb78]

@Atheieye I think Opie is just bitter that he is still in radio. When he looks at ppl like Kevin James he get mad cause he thinks that should be him,and it should be him in Hollywood not unfunny Kevin James. I mean christ even Elvis Duran was in a movie.

[@meaty220]

Opie talking about someone else not being funny....at least he's finally been exposed (as is evidenced by his complete disappearance from any kind of mainstream medium) lol.

[@JonChampaigne]

I don't think that Jason is a comedian -- his career sucks now, but I think Anthony is just jealous of his money that he made as a sudo-comedian.

[@nietherniether7508]

Jason is irrelevant

[@coltonw8686]

Bashing him for being himself on twitter lol nice.

[@ahabthewhaler]

he is an actor, and if people love the character then he did well. seems more stupid to think the actor is going to be the character

[@jaydubaic21]

I followed this back an forth, but I had to stop. I hate to nitpick but please do not use a High School word and spell it wrong when you are trying to make a point. (sudo-pseudo) #PhilCollins

[@xamphor]

jim complaining about GLAAD doing exactly what FOX does, lol

[@VociferousMallard]

pseudo*