Forget The Beatles vs The Stones. Forget the World Cup. Forget every actual war that has ever happened.
This is Jerry Seinfeld vs Gaga. It eclipses everything. In the red corner, we have a New Yorker with a bizarre voice and several of history’s most avant-garde haircuts. And in the blue corner we have Lady Gaga. This is going to be one hell of a fight.
What have Jerry Seinfeld and Lady Gaga done to enrage each other so much? Simple – Lady Gaga went to a baseball game in a bikini, stuck her finger up at someone, ended up in Jerry Seinfeld’s private box and now Jerry Seinfeld says that he hates her. It’s basically how World War One started, but this has slightly more bikinis and whiny millionaires and slightly fewer interesting things that anyone should care about.
Since his sitcom ended, Jerry Seinfeld has been trying and failing to insert himself back into popular culture again and again, to little avail. Bee Movie was horrible, those Microsoft adverts were horrible, and The Marriage Ref is horrible. Jerry Seinfeld had one roll of the dice left, so he needed to make it count. That’s why he’s gone on record as saying that Lady Gaga is a ‘jerk’.
But first, some context. Earlier this month, Lady Gaga went to see a baseball game in a bikini. After giving a photographer the finger, she was moved to Jerry Seinfeld’s private box. And that was basically it. However, during an interview with New York’s WFAN Sports Radio, Jerry Seinfeld decided that he could no longer suffer in silence. MSNBC quotes:
?I hate her. I can't believe they put her in my box ? that I paid for! You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we're living in now? I mean… I came for the night game and heard all about it. She's a jerk. What is she giving the finger (for)? What's the finger anyway? Speaking of interesting and new, how old is the finger, how did it even get to be the finger?”
Well Jerry, the finger can be traced back to 423 BC, when Greek playwright Aristophanes mentioned it in his play The Clouds, and anthropologists assume that it’s simply a deviation of a classic primate phallic aggressive behavioural gesture. But, you know, don’t let that easily-available information get in the way of your half-baked observational comedy or anything.
Now the world impatiently waits to see how Lady Gaga will respond to this outburst by Jerry Seinfeld. Are we the only ones who think her rebuttal will probably come in the form of a nine-minute music video? We’re not? Oh bollocks.
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Doug says
Who cares what Jerry Snoozefeld likes or doesn’t like. He is a TV HAS BEEN. He is only famous for having a TV show, and is only beloved in New York because he is just as stupid as 99% of New Yorkers. He is a no-talent hack who is trying to get publicity hating someone with tru talent.
Doug's Mom says
Oh son, you’re so silly. Lady Gaga has no talent either.
Duke says
fucking retards.
Bob says
Let’s see, we have the biggest performer in the world today being hated by the biggest has-been performer in the world today. Not a good career move, Jerry.
NotAGagaFan says
Jerry needs to get a life. Seriously, he once had a show and a (lousy) stand up bit about 20 years ago – but that’s over, done, finished. He needs to get over himself and go back into obscurity.
DB says
I’m sticking with Seinfeld.. Lady Gaga gives someone the finger and is moved into Seinfeld’s box?
Really? If he paid for the box he should be entitled to some say in that no?
IAmAwesome says
Anyone else think this whole thing would make a good Seinfeld episode?
Anyway I agree with Jerry, even though some of what he said was a little over the top.
Doug SUCKS says
Well I’m from New York. Now let me ask you a question, are you always a pretentious little asshole, or just when you’re online where you don’t run the risk of getting your teeth knocked out?