Hey everybody! Watch this amazing new series directed by OE’s own Adam Conover and featuring friends of Olde English Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza!
Check out all new episodes starting May 27th!
When Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza asked me to direct their new internet web series, I jumped at the chance. “These guys are television icons,” I thought. “This is going to make my career!”
It wasn’t until the second day of shooting that I realized the project was going dangerously off the rails. The scripts, which had started out pedestrian enough, had grown increasingly bizarre, drifting from confused theological debate to mad rantings about the duo’s imaginary enemies. As the shoot went on, Jerry became increasingly insecure, and started lashing out at the audience whenever one of his “jokes” failed to land. George, already a paranoid and odd man, seemed to devolve before my eyes — his posture became more beast-like, and his trademark patter slowly lost all meaning, until it became little more than a series of random, violent grunts.
By week’s end, a strange, grotesque sexual tension had grown between the two — one minute, they’d be idly caressing each other over the crotches of their acid-washed jeans; the next, they were a riot of flailing limbs, caught in an argument of such outrageous ferocity that a panicked crew member would call 911. Inevitably, ten minutes later, the storm had quieted, and the officer would arrive to find George curled up in Jerry’s arms, cooing softly and nuzzling under the armpit of the comedian’s denim shirt.
Despite everything, it was worth it. In my time with George and Jerry, I learned that without a hint of madness, true art cannot exist; that in the rantings of a lunatic, there is inevitably a hint of the divine. Which is to say, watch this web series: it’s really weird, and I directed it. New episodes every few days.
