To become a huge star by creating a show about nothing, you have to know a thing or two about personal motivation. What works best for Seinfeld, it seems, is putting up a wall-sized, year-long calendar so that you can get the satisfaction of—and motivation from—crossing off days in which...
AOL Time Warner is bringing out Jerry Seinfeld for a special appearance at its Turner Network Television/TBS Superstation upfront event in Manhattan tonight (April 22). It will be his first major off-channel cable appearance in eight years -- ...
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 18, 1995--About 32% of the viewers familiar with the American Express ad campaign featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld liked the ads, according to a new Ad Track poll appearing in Monday's editions of USA TODAY.
DETROIT AP -- In a case that echoes a "Seinfeld" episode, a former postal worker has been charged with stealing thousands of pieces of mail that authorities say she had kept in a storage unit northwest of Detroit. Federal investigators say they've recovered more than 9,000 pieces...
LOS ANGELES -- Break.com, the leading video entertainment Website for guys, today named the Top 25 most viewed videos for the month of September. Topping the list as the number one most viewed video is Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld's "Shoe Circus." Break.com is the premier online entertainment...
TV's Favorite Gang is Finally Back, Challenging America with Clips and Puzzles from All Nine Seasons SEATTLE -- Jerry, George, Elaine and KramerOfor many people these household names have become less like characters on America's most popular television show, and more like quirky friends from way back, worthy...
A weekly survey of dubious behavior that measures, on a scale of one to 100, just how low a person can go. Microsoft honcho Bill Gates’s dead-on-arrival ad campaign with Jerry Seinfeld gets yanked after just two weeks on the air. Congrats, Bill! You’re the new New...
FUNDRAISER WAS HOSTED BY WHOOPI GOLDBERG AND FEATURED PERFORMANCES BY BENNETT, JERRY SEINFELD, JOHN MAYER AND TERRENCE HOWARD The Evening Honored Reed Hastings, Sumner Redstone, and Steve Wynn NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 500 guests attended Susan and Tony Bennett's Exploring the Arts...
He's unlikely to miss the money, but Bill Gates is coming to terms with the fact that neither Jerry Seinfeld, nor a $300m (160m) investment, can succeed in making him look cool. The world's richest man has axed Microsoft's bizarre new television commercial, in which he starred...
Microsoft's big-budget effort to battle more than two years of Windows-bashing ads from rival Apple took a new turn Thursday. After two weeks of three teaser ads "about nothing" featuring Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and comic Jerry Seinfeld, the company launched a new TV ad that directly addresses...
ACTON, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Area49 Software LLC announces the release of the ayePhone for iPhone (http://www.area49.com/products/ayePhone/). The ayePhone gives users the vicarious experience of being a pirate. "With International Talk Like a Pirate Day approaching, we wanted to give all iPhone users the ability to...
Call any customer service centre in the continental United States and a service representative named George, Jerry or Elaine will help route you to the proper department or solve your issue outright. But the people behind the names that seem to have been picked randomly from re-runs of Seinfeld have...
THE PODIUM Last week was an embarrassing one for politicians all over the world. Senator John McCain set back his White House campaign by admitting he didn't know how many houses he owns seven. Jacqui Smith's department lost another top secret memory stick. Swimmer David Davies...
For two years, Microsoft has been prodded and poked fun of in Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads on both sides of the Atlantic, and the company has finally snapped. In a last-ditch, and very expensive, attempt to fight humour with humour, the beleaguered software giant is paying...
NEW YORK -- Junior Mints, Yoo-hoo, Drake's Coffee Cakes, puffy shirts: These are all things Jerry Seinfeld has endorsed -- at least in his alter ego on his classic sitcom. Now, add Microsoft software. Seinfeld will be a key pitchman in a planned $300 million fall advertising...
HOPING TO become as wealthy as Bill Gates , if he's not there already, Jerry Seinfeld will appear in Microsoft's next Windows advertising campaign. Perhaps the spot will be a spoof of the classic "Seinfeld" episode in which Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine battle to see who can become master...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PARAMOUNT In case you missed it on Logo, catch up on Michelle Paradise's delightful sitcom about girl-on-girl life in Seattle. She's the lesbian Jerry Seinfeld.
Q: I saw a commercial for Holiday Inn, and there is an actor who plays a teacher. I am going nuts trying to figure out where I know him from. I thought maybe he was in Law & Order. Or maybe a teacher character from a 1980s teen...
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George Carlin began his comedy career in the late 1950s. And he ended it with a show in Las Vegas just a week before his death Sunday of heart failure at age 71. That's a long time to survive in any part of the entertainment business....