# Jason Alexander - real life personality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166 "2010-02-16T04:28:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/61 "2016-04-08T13:45:36Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Not even veiled, really. When I binged on the whole series, I watched some of the extra features too. In one of his, he said he originally based his character on Woody Allen. > > But then at one point he told Larry David “This thing that happens to my character here … no-one in the world would ever react the way you have George reacting!”. To which David replied “Wadda ya mean? That happened to me, and that’s exactly how I reacted!”. At which point he realises that his character IS Larry David, and he played him that way for the rest of the series. > > And I have to say, he seemed a perfectly reasonable chap in those extra features - VERY different from George. The first episode it is obvious he is doing Woody Allen. IIRC it changed immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/62 "2017-01-30T17:36:43Z")
Bumped. There’s a new documentary about a notorious Broadway flop he was in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best\_Worst\_Thing\_That\_Ever\_Could\_Have\_Happened ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/63 "2017-01-30T18:23:54Z")
> [@crypto](#): > > I just got the impression, especially from Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, that they were basically “playing themselves”, so I just attached that to Alexander. Perhaps that was unfair. I have to say, he was easily the most abrasive of the Seinfeld cast, but when in the George character, he was his usual, paranoid Costanza. Ehh… no they’re actors. Michael Richards is/was a real life angry racist, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is/was the real life daughter of a billionaire and raised in that world, 39 YO (at the time)[Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old](http://i.imgur.com/RHclO.jpg) and could have cared less what people thought. Did any of that come out in their show characters? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/64 "2017-01-30T22:23:02Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Ehh… no they’re actors. Michael Richards is/was a real life angry racist, Julia Louis-Dreyfus is/was the real life daughter of a billionaire and raised in that world, 39 YO (at the time)[Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old](http://i.imgur.com/RHclO.jpg) and could have cared less what people thought. Did any of that come out in their show characters? Jerry wasn’t at all like the other 3 in terms of acting abilities and doing characters. Seinfeld would mention how on the set there’d be “cut” called out and the other 3 instantly became other people. Jerry kept on being Jerry. Jason channeled Woody Allen in the early episodes and later became more like Larry David, but nicer! Any characteristics Jason and George have in common are mostly coincidence. (And don’t forget the odd circumstances Seinfeld started dating his wife. Ewwww.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/65 "2017-01-30T22:31:06Z")
> [@astro](#): > > …Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old and could have cared less what people thought. Did any of that come out in their show characters? So he did care on some level? (sorry, pet peeve of mine) mmm ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/66 "2017-01-30T23:16:35Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17 year old and could have cared less what people thought. You say that as if it were a bad thing… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/67 "2017-01-31T14:52:50Z")
Seinfeld’s wife Jessica met him several months before her wedding to Eric Nederlander, and then took up with him when she came back from her honeymoon! Nederlander filed for divorce four months after the wedding. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/68 "2017-01-31T16:38:42Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Seinfeld’s wife Jessica met him several months before her wedding to Eric Nederlander, and then took up with him when she came back from her honeymoon! Nederlander filed for divorce four months after the wedding. Women! :mad: Can’t live with 'em… Pass the Beer Nuts! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/69 "2017-02-13T14:24:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Bumped. > > There’s a new documentary about a notorious Broadway flop he was in: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best\_Worst\_Thing\_That\_Ever\_Could\_Have\_Happened Just saw it. Well worth a look, if you’re a JA fan, a Sondheim/Prince fan, or just a fan of Broadway shows generally. JA talks a little about his early life, what a big deal it was to get on Broadway in his early 20s, and how his life has changed since _Seinfeld_. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166/70 "2017-02-13T22:21:51Z")
George was so lame. Not sure who Seinfeld knew in the first place to keep his lame ass show alive; nonetheless, George would have been the first I’d cut from the show. I always assumed he was the same in real life, except now he thinks he’s some big shot actor. And, to think idiots like Seinfeld breathed life into guys like Raymond whoever and Kevin James. Wow, what talent. :rolleyes: However, Kramer deserved his own show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jason-alexander-real-life-personality/529166.md?page=3)