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Writer Spike Feresten joins Kyle Meredith to talk about teaming up with Jerry Seinfeld for without freezingthe new Netflix comedy about the momentous invention of Pop-Tart. Listen to the new episode above, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Feresten – famous for writing Seinfeld episodes such as “The Soup Nazi” and “The Muffin Tops”, as well as his work on Space Ghost Coast to Coast — explains how he met with Seinfeld over the absurd idea of without freezing. Explains how, although the characters are based on real people, they adapted them to fit a Seinfeld-mold. “I remember when I wrote a Seinfeld episode. The same thing happened to me,” she says. “These were all the same problems we were solving then and are solving now.”
To that end, Feresten continues, they created the Seinfeld character of Kellogg employee Bob Cabana to be more Seinfeldian: “I had a legitimate concern about Jerry playing someone other than Jerry Seinfeld. He had never done it. I know as a fan of watching TV and movies, it always baffled me when I saw my favorite comedian perform and not be all that funny… [So,] We let the audience know from the beginning with jokes that you would make as Jerry Seinfeld from the stage or on the show. So, 'xanthan gum!' It's 'Newman!' We left crumbs from the beginning.”
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