Julia Louis-Dreyfus Couldn't Keep Her Sh*t Together While Filming the 'Festivus' Episode
Today, as your friends on Facebook who think they're really smart and clever will tell you, is Festivus. The fake holiday that made an episode that made a real holiday, kind of, goes down as one of the most infamous Seinfeld gags. So funny, Julia Louis-Dreyfus couldn't hold it together while filming the dinner scene. In fact, the scene itself took six hours to film, writer Dan O'Keefe told Uproxx, as Louis-Dreyfus couldn't stop laughing when the Sleazy Guy tells her, "I think you're a fox." The real killer, though, was Jerry Stiller, who played Frank Costanza—the inventor of Festivus. "Julia, who's the greatest comedic actress ever, her kryptonite, the thing that would just stop her in her tracks, was Jerry Stiller's halting, explosive delivery," writer Jeff Schaffer said. "Then we knew we'd be there for a while because once she started laughing she could not stop." Now, a refresher on the genius of Festivus, for the rest of us:
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