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Jerry Seinfeld performing on the 2023 Good Basis’s ‘A Very Good Night time of Comedy’ Profit in New York Metropolis.
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In 2012, Jerry Seinfeld appeared in a New York Instances video the place he’s seen breaking down how he wrote his well-known “Pop Tart Joke.”
Whereas he referred to the snack (in true “Seinfeld” vogue) as “one thing meaning completely nothing” within the Instances video, it seems Pop-Tarts imply loads to the legendary comic, since over a decade later, he’s now directing and starring in “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story,” an upcoming Netflix movie that illustrates the genesis of how the enduring sugar-coated breakfast merchandise got here to be.
Billed as a Sixties-set “story of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen,” the movie’s trailer – launched on Thursday – packs a fully-loaded solid, together with Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer and comic Invoice Burr, who’s seen taking part in President John F. Kennedy.
The clip options McCarthy and Seinfeld teaming as much as create a cereal different that will guarantee “joyful childhoods for thousands and thousands of American children,” with clips of Grant dressed as Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger, an indignant Schumer monitoring her rivals and photographs of cereal factories that really feel like scenes out of “Willy Wonka.”
In line with an official synopsis, the movie follows rival cereal firms Kellogg’s and Publish as they “race to create a pastry that can change the face of breakfast.”
There actually couldn’t be a greater individual to steer the cost in telling a breakfast-related Pop-Tart story than Seinfeld, who was notoriously usually seen consuming a bowl of cereal throughout his “Seinfeld” run and even joked concerning the foil-wrapped snack in his 2020 Netflix particular “23 Hours to Kill.”
It’s clear that all through time, the Pop-Tart stays related. And as Seinfeld mentioned on the finish of his 2012 Pop-Tart joke: “They’ll’t go stale, as a result of they had been by no means recent.”
“Unfrosted” can be out there to stream on Netflix on Might 3.