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Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander Slams Mitt Romney For ‘George Constanza’ Reference During Debate

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During last night’s debate, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney name-dropped George Costanza, the irascible pop cultural icon from the 90s hit show Seinfeld, after he had received applause.

“What’s the George Costanza line?” Romney joked. “When they’re applauding, you sit down…”

BuzzFeed’s Scott Lamb observed that Romney had actually botched the line:

The actual quote (from “Seinfeld” episode 172, “The Burning”):
JERRY: Showmanship, George. When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off.

The actor who portrayed Costanza, Jason Alexander, fired back via Twitter about the former Massachusetts governor’s Seinfeld reference, tweeting, “Thrilled Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he’d embrace that again, he’d b a great candidate.”


He stopped short, however, of saying the jerk store had called.

Watch Romney’s Seinfeld reference below:


(h/t Politico)

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  • Anonymous

    Stopped short! That’s my move!

  • Anonymous

    Poor Mitty. He tries to be the every-man but steps in it again. Maybe he can tell us more about how he likes trees the right size and how he loves lakes and cars.

    http://theinterrobang.com/2012/02/mitt-romney-likes-trees-the-right-size/

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1077605323 Bob Belinke

    I love it!   Back to the Pazzaro World for GOP.   “That’s a shame”

  • Anonymous

    Mitt, keep your hands off Seinfeld material, you don’t have the talent or the skills, you can’t even remember the lines (try a teleprompter next time)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Mitt Romney is the best person in this election to be president if the media would quit with the sideshow crap. He is a good family man, there are no skeletons in his closet, no cocaine use, no Rev. Wrights in his background, he actually has been a successful executive both as a politician and in the private sector, unlike anyone else in the election including Obama. We just elected a “personality” rather than a competent worker and look where that got us: Unemployment is high, gas prices are high, food prices are high, deficit is huge, the middle east is burning and the cold war with the Soviet Union is starting to heat up. Vote Mitt in and the community organizer out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Hawkins/100002605884457 Mark Hawkins

    Gee what a shocker…..A little Hollywood Jew takes a stand against the GOP

  • Anonymous

    Jason, George Costanza is all you ever were or will be.

  • L. Ron Gloveard

    Who on Earth is reading the Tweets of this former actor ?

    At least he has Vandelay Industries to fall back on.

  • Anonymous

    Im a Jew & I despise them as much as you!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Like Obama?

  • Anonymous

    What has Jason Alexander done since Seinfeld????
    Yesterdays tweet!!!

  • Anonymous

    What the hell does George Costanza have against Mitt Romney? That’s just weird. Oh I know, Mitt is just a terrible person, a regular Hitler. Give it a rest.

  • Anonymous

    Really, Jason?

    Costanza: King of the idiots.

  • Anonymous

    Like EVERY president since the technology was invented…. including Reagan. — http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4848259-503544.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Romney is the candidate who tries way too hard.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    This would be a more effective retort if it wasn’t for the fact that abusing the George Costanza character is in large part the whole reason for the existence of the George Costanza character — i.e. it’s not the same as some recording artist telling Romney or some other Republican not to use their song, because the audience expects Alexander’s character to be both abused and annoyed by the way life treats him.

     So Jason tweeting that he’s angry with Mitt just comes across as a potential 2012 story submission for a “Seinfeld” reunion show, not something that anyone’s going to take seriously as a rebuke to Romney.

  • Anonymous

    We’ve heard from George.  Has Kramer weighed in on last night’s debate yet?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmsTb_jmqb4 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KV4RFCL74WV652VV43U3GDPAEY Stephen W

    ding dong the witch is dead.   which old Witch,  the wicked witch.   Wizard of Oz, 1939.    Has as much to do with anything as this article.

  • Anonymous

    oh shut up you litte fat man.

  • Anonymous

    repubs are crazy…pretending to be hip and quoting seinfeld lines.

  • Anonymous

    Jason, Jason, is THAT all you’ve got? Geez! What’s next, Errol Flynn upset about someone saying something about “Zorro”?!

    Jason, YOU are not George Costanza!

  • Anonymous

    Jason Alexander has 88K twitter followers vs zero that you have. But keep talking Gove-tard and maybe one day you’ll actually say something someone cares about.

  • Anonymous

    you’re antisemitism is showing. a-wipe

  • Anonymous

    Another crying actor…maybe actor??

  • Anonymous

    Jason (George Costanze’s) name hasn’t been mentions in years and Jason was so thrilled because really is Jason remembered for anyone else other than Georgie boy. 
    I am sure Jason felt honored and now he can go back to sleep for another 20 years or so! But then again he could get a job as a member of one of Obama’s “Truth Team”

  • Anonymous

    His tweet was perfectly accurate, however. The old Romney would be a hell of a candidate, but this sold out Romney is sad.

  • Anonymous

    There was a debate last night? How many were in it?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    None.

  • Anonymous

     way to tell him, guy who posts on internet boards 50 people look at

  • Anonymous

     There has never been a President that has had to rely on a teleprompter than our incompetent community organizer!! This clown has to use it when addressing elementary school children!!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    The irony in all this is that Larry David hasn’t said anything. 

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like the “shrinkage” has affected George like a scared turtle!!

  • Anonymous

    Jason ought to be glad.  He hasn’t done anything worthwhile since “Seinfeld”.  yada yada yada

  • Anonymous

    What did you expect from a Kenyan, Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Muslim, Anti-American, white hating President.

    How the hell did he get elected?

    I do hope people here have a sense of humour.

  • Anonymous

    What have you ever done? 

  • Anonymous

    “Hey romney, the jerk store called and they said they’re all out of you!”

  • http://joewatchestv.blogspot.com/ @JoeWatchesTV

    Jeff, dude, you deserve Mitt Romney. I hope you move to a country where he someday has a chance at being President.

  • Anonymous

    Screwed your sister

  • Anonymous

    Are you calling Romney a nobody? He obviously cares about George Costanza.

  • Anonymous

    Ouch harsh talk from someone with a koala as their avatar. I think you need to munch on some eucalyptus & take a nap there friend.

  • Anonymous

    Glad to see you didn’t disappoint me with your response.  Just insult people who point out your nonsense. What’s next, you going to call me nasty names.

  • Anonymous

    He doesn’t have anything against Romney, he just prefers the Romney that governed Massachusetts over the Romney that’s running for the Republican nomination.

  • Hout Bosques

    Something twisted up all in knots about that goy, Jeffers – some deep dark secret gnawing at his extra-fabriprotected nipples like a hair shirt made from a grizzled tail of the cheapest claimer out of a post-menopausal fillies restricted on a unregulated track off a dirt road in the bandito lands of Jalisco state. It’s written all over his face – like maybe, when he was at Harvard, he secretly pledged Opus Dei – or maybe, when he was stuck in the missionary position for two years in France, he suddenly seized up & accidentally got some pleasant peasant bella madamoisella in the family way whilst stumbling all tongued-tied trippy-toed thru the tulips of Toulouse, & the vividness of the memory eats at him like your biggest creditor sharing a long cab ride with you, or like a wife with a pre-nup where all the family inheritance money is going to come in from her side. 

    Here’s the thing, Jeffers: everything that comes out of Mittens’ maw is crazy talk: first he says something maybe moderate sounding; a minute later he contradicts that completely with a full-on pander beardown; then he denies having said the moderate thing; then he’s called on that & denies having said the pander; then he’s called on that & denies having said either one; then he goes on a morning business news cable channel where hardly anyone aske questions & claims he’s been totally consistent on the issue whilst denying he’s ever taking a position on it. Also – the lies. 

    Ah, the lies. Big fat juicy lies, squishy & oozing, slithely toving thru the tulgey laminate. Every day; several times every day. It’s like lies are crack for Mittens: if you lined up a selection of politically tested assertions & delicious deep-fried pander, & laid all of them out on a board room table, Mittens can’t help but go straight for the hard stuff: the total falsehoods, 100% pure lying bastard candy, the stuff you only say because You Can’t Handle The Truth, except Mittens goes after that like the last pan-fried frogs legs at a KFC luncheon. 

    Jeffers, if your boy Mittens is so good, then why the lies? Why the apparent ADDICTION to lying? There’s something deeply, deeply wrong here; something dark & desperate.

  • Hout Bosques

    You obviously don’t get to New York City very often. Jason Alexander is a big Broadway singing & dancing star. He was already a star on Broadway when Seinfeld first started; in fact he was chosen because he was the only ‘bankable’ & properly trained stage performer among the regulars, all the others coming from stand-up comedy & improv. 

    So there you are: another successful clean-up of your bullshit winger malevolent self-imposed ignorance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    I think for the next debate Romney should stop before his gives every answer and then say the exact opposite.  Worked for Costanza.  And it might give us insight into what Romney really believes.

  • Hout Bosques

    Jason Alexander has neither the time nor the incentive for any such revival show. All the top players on that show have become richer than Mittens from syndication of Seinfeld, & Alexander has to turn down show opportunities all the time because he’s booked so heavily so far in advance on stuff he gets to choose not because he needs the work but because he likes it. Bear in mind that over 5 years ago a Vanity Fair profile of Larry David pointed out he was already then worth over half a billion dollars just from Seinfeld before he even started on Curb Your Enthusiasm. These Seinfeld people work if & when they want to, not because they have to.

  • Hout Bosques

    So tell us then, pit: what HAS he been doing? You don’t know. You just make shit up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Oh, I know they’re all set for life financially. It’s just that the persona of the character Alexander created on “Seinfeld” is that of a man who is perpetually either dumped upon or the cause of his own demise.

     Bruce Springsteen can ream Chris Christie for using one of his songs and it comes off as a rebuff to Christie; Jason Alexander trying to attack Mitt Romney comes off like George Costanza going after Keith Hernandez – it’s just not going to have the same effect and comes off as being funny that George/Jason is actually getting this worked up over the matter.

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!

  • Anonymous

    ALWAYS…truly alwaaaaaaays the ‘caring & compassionate Libs’ pounce and denigrate others, showing their dire & demanding demeanor and lack of humor in making their comments / criticisms  (Good for ‘George’ to keep his twitter comment in a meanignful context…’feat of strength George!”).

  • Anonymous

    he’s clearly the most talented and accomplished of the four. ‘Kramer’ flamed out in a racist rant, ‘Elaine’…her show went just about right to re-runs, Jerry ? …psuedo successful while Jason Alexander has won awards on stage and screen.

  • Anonymous

    the parallel …well, doesn’t parallel. The Boss differed w the politics while Jason is merely offering up that Romney needs to return to his roots.

  • Anonymous

    THX

  • Anonymous

    kidding? Alexander’s won many awards on stage and screen (big & small screen).

  • Anonymous

    Im suprised you even knew how to spell “eucalyptus”!!
    by the way
    Were you jacking off..while your girlfriend Nancy Pelosi was on Colbert??

  • Anonymous

    Calm down Hashimoto, don’t want to inflame your chlamydia there bud.

  • Marsan Magia

    oh my, you have a serious case of squishy & oozing, slithely toving thru the tulgey foolitis mittinitis!  Get help.

  • Holistic

    Stay in character and move back home with your parents. Childish!

  • Anonymous

    why?

  • Anonymous

    You’re forgetting his delightful stint as KFC spokesman. Since then his career has been “in the pool!” (wink wink)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    …but it’s still the guy who played George Castanza. To the non-political junkie public (basically, the 99 percent of people not reading this site or other political-themed web addresses), if they hear about Alexander’s tweet, it’s still going to come across like a stern reprimand from Arnold Horshack.

  • Anonymous

    The image of George above is from that episode. Not sure if you caught that or not.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt, Newt, and Santorum: This will truly be the SUMMER OF GEORGE!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Where is he now? What is he doing? Sorry, but I am not aware of any great success that he has had.

  • Anonymous

    No need to be rude. You might have just said you disagreed with me and then why you disagreed.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Ha.

  • Anonymous

     You’re retarded… right?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Once again, I love how the party that loves Israel to the end, can’t wait to point out the Jew.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2KHZWZQZFPZASXZ4KOMIS27UFU a

    Oh, Mittens – trying to be hip, but falling short of the mark, once again!!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Except for Reagan.

  • Anonymous

    Plenty of truth in humor.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    This is the only time that Mitt Romney and the word ‘character’ have been used in the same sentence.

    Thank you Republicans for seeing right through the self-fish prick of a used car salesman and vulture capitalist Mit Romney. I take back most of what I have ever said about you at least in the last week.  You are very wise individuals to reject him for what he is. A loser that prays and profits off the backs and hardwork of the middleclass and the poor.

    If you vote him in it says that you don’t care about America, you don’t care about economic growth or economic injustice and you only care about Rich self-fish people, instead o fthe rich self-less people like Oprah, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet and basically any other human being besides this Demon.

    Yes, I said it. Demon.

  • Michael Trout

     Like every President since the technology was invented..dumb@ss!

  • Michael Trout

     ’to the end’ of the world, I assume you mean.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DGT5LFXDWHPKRWLSI2WPBXIGXE Wil
  • Anonymous

    It’s amazing how much you can add to the conversation.

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  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Heh… no kittens. Kinda doubt he ever actually watched it, huh.
     
    Someone should tell him about that new show with three 20-something couples in NYC. One of them used to dance with the Boss!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PMCIREXU5PX26WQB6W4P26LHNM Gary

    I think you could have stopped at “I am not aware.”

  • http://twitter.com/Kattyusa Katty

    OMG George/Jason….get a life, or have you now relegated to criticizing in order to get your name out there.  Won’t work for you…

  • Anonymous

    Really? Pray tell, what has he done of great artistic talent recently?

  • Anonymous

    You butchered it. That’s funny. You come on here to insult Romney on an article that calls him out for butchering a quote; you try to insult him by copying his mistake; well done.

    The line is, “Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called, and they’re runnin’ out of you!”

    If Romney were here, he could respond to your idiotic comment by saying, “What’s the difference? You’re their all-time best-seller!”

  • Anonymous

    What? He was in shallow hal with Jack Black and Gwenneth Paltrow.

  • Anonymous

    Sold out nothing. You wait and see. He’ll win and then go back to who he really is. He’s been forced to act this way by crazy ricky.

  • Anonymous

    Sadly, you are correct. Sadly, you also over look the fact of this past 10 months. Romney is too afraid to lead anything. IF he did stand on his own merit and avoid sucking up to the idiotic NEW GOP base, he would be THE GUY. He was the guy I liked in ’08.. but front runner status has reduced him to the dude who will do anything to win, regardless of his past views. Its sad. I’m expecting him at any moment to “show his tits” to get some beads!

  • Bradley Greenwood

    Remember that… numbers equal importance. Remember: the most profitable movies are the best, fast cars are the best, Catholics are better than Jews…because there are fewer, Eighty-eight morons does not a indicate that you are of importance. I wonder how many twitter followers “#snooki” has; maybe even more than you… does that tell YOU something?

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