Pat Cooper, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Analyze This’ star, dead at 93

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at the Friars Club, where comedians throw their best jokes at each other.He portrayed himself on the 1996 “Seinfeld” episode titled, “The Friar’s Club.”Garrin recalled how Cooper’s memorable scene even came about.“I was sitting at his table in his kitchen and the phone rings, and it’s Larry David,” he said. “He picks up the phone, and he hangs it up.

I go, ‘What was that?’ He says, ‘Some nut.’ The phone rings again, and he picks it up, and he hangs it up.“I said, ‘What’s going on with you?’ and he goes, ‘Some guy says he’s Larry David,’ and I said, ‘Well, maybe if he calls again, see if it is.’”As fate would have it, David called once again and offered Cooper a guest spot on the popular sitcom “Seinfeld.” Cooper’s scene was completely ad-libbed.“Pat ad libs and says — if you look at Jason Alexander’s face — he goes, ‘Are you in show business?’ Jason looks at him like he doesn’t know what’s going on, but they went with it, and he goes, ‘No,’ and he goes, ‘Well, what am I talking to you for?’ And boom — that was the take, and they kept it,” Garrin recalled.

Garrin also remembered being at the Jerry Lewis roast at the Friars Club with Cooper, who was told to tell the audience not to take pictures of another guest at the show, Robert De Niro.

As soon as Cooper got to the stage, Garrin remembered Cooper saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, they just told me Robert De Niro is in the audience.