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Julia Louis-Dreyfus has hit out at Donald Trump over women’s rights in America.The star, who previously played a female vice president in Veep, took to social media ahead of the US presidential elections on November 5 to criticise the former US President.Louis-Dreyfus, who recently endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, said: “OK, let’s cut to the chase. Donald Trump and his merry band of yes men are obsessed with what we women do with our bodies.“They want to reach into our doctors’ offices and our bedrooms to control our access to birth control and IVF and, of course, abortion – even though they wouldn’t know a uterus if they had to crawl out of one for a second time.”I don't know about you, but I'd really like to get the government out of my f*cking snatch.

Jerry Seinfeld has said he regrets saying that the “extreme left” is killing comedy.Earlier this year, the comic and actor spoke about the current state of comedy and claimed that it had been killed by “extreme left and P.C. crap” and “people worrying so much about offending other people”.“When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups – ‘Here’s our thought about this joke.’ Well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he added at the time.In a new interview on Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast, Seinfeld said he now regrets his comments.“I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has insisted that she doesn’t believe Kamala Harris is anything like the female vice president she played in Veep. The political satire comedy has enjoyed a surge in popularity since President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy in the forthcoming presidential election and his vice president Harris took his place.In an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which aired live from the Democratic National Convention, Colbert mentioned that streams of the show had gone up 350 per cent.“It’s a great thing, I think?” Louis-Dreyfus said, before emphasising that her character, Selina Meyer, bears little resemblance to Harris.“Let me explain to you, on Veep I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath, and that is not Kamala Harris,” she said, adding: “It might be another candidate in the race.”She was then asked which Veep character was most like Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance.

The Sunday Times and later cut an advertisement aimed at telling Americans overseas how to cast their ballots.She mused about the advice that her alter ego in the show Selina Meyer would give to Harris but cautioned the VP against taking it.“If Selina had any advice for Kamala, she had best not take it. I think Kamala is so intelligent she wouldn’t take the call,” Louis-Dreyfus joked.Louis-Dreyfus’s political satire show “Veep” has roared back into the spotlight after the life-imitates-art moment when President Biden announced he was stepping down and endorsing Harris to replace him.Some critics have compared Harris to Louis-Dreyfus’ character on the show, who is at once incompetent and vicious.In the HBO show, Meyer becames the first female president after the incumbent stepped aside.

became the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2024 Presidential election, the HBO satirical comedy “Veep” has gone viral and reportedly seen a 353% surge in viewership numbers. “It’s been a wild thing to witness. Viewership went up something insane like 350 percent,” series star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 63, told Entertainment Weekly.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has spoken again on the topic of political correctness in comedy.The Seinfeld star has previously pushed back against the idea that being sensitive towards certain subjects has impacted the comedy industry in a negative way.Speaking with Kara Swisher on her podcast, Louis-Dreyfus addressed the topic, saying: “There’s a lot of talk about how comics can’t be funny now… I think that’s bullshit.”“Physical comedy and intellectual comedy and political comedy, I think, has never been more interesting, because there’s so much to do. It’s a ripe time,” Louis-Dreyfus added.“Comedy is risky and it can be offensive, but that’s what makes it so enjoyable.

political correctness and how it has affected comedy.“This is the result of the extreme left, and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people,” Seinfeld, 70, said in April to The New Yorker about the deterioration of TV comedy.But Louis-Dreyfus, 63, disagreed with his take and said that political correctness is “fantastic.”“If you look back on comedy and drama both, let’s say 30 years ago, through the lens of today, you might find bits and pieces that don’t age well,” she told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday.“And I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result.”The “Veep” star continued: “When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else.

Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has shared her thoughts on political correctness in comedy.Speaking to The New York Times, the actor addressed the current debate about sensitivity in comedy towards some subjects.When asked to respond to former co-star Jerry Seinfeld’s comments about political correctness, Louis-Dreyfus gave a somewhat contrasting view.“It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result,” she said. “When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else.”She continued: “I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing.

“Saturday Night Live” has “never” hired a “hot” woman in its nearly 50-year run — and some of the show’s female cast members had hilarious reactions. “Am I the only person who’s ever noticed that ‘SNL’ has never hired a, like, hot woman?” the TikTok user, who goes by Jahelis on the platform, asked in a video uploaded March 21 and currently has more than 482,700 views.“I’m not saying that every single woman who has been a cast member on ‘SNL’ is ugly,” she continued.

about a possible reunion or reboot of the hit NBC sitcom. “There is only one reason for that rumor. Apparently, at the end of some stand-up thing, [Seinfeld] went, ‘Larry [David] and I are thinking of something,'” Alexander told “Extra” on Monday.“Good for you.

Entrances and Exits.” “My book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the whole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all,” Richards, 74, writes in the book’s introduction, per People. “It’s like Harpo Marx turning us about, shaking up my plans, throwing me for a loop. Upset and turmoil is with us all the time.”“It’s at the basis of comedy.

Jerry Seinfeld might have hinted at a “Seinfeld” reunion of sorts during a recent stand-up show — but Julia Louis-Dreyfus knows nothing about it.“Yeah, I just saw [that news] last night,” Louis-Dreyfus told The Guardian. “And I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.”Earlier this month, Seinfeld, 69, spoke about the NBC comedy while performing to a Boston audience.“Well, I have a little secret for you about the ending [of the show],” the comedian said in a clip posted to Instagram. “But I can’t really tell it, because it is a secret.”“Here’s what I’ll tell you.

Elaine Benes dance. Jerry Seinfeld hinted at a possible “Seinfeld” reunion while doing a comedy show Saturday night after years of rumors circulating the NBC hit. Seinfeld, 69, told his Boston audience that he and Larry David, who also served as the show’s co-creator, were working on a special project for fans.

Podcrushed” podcast. “I felt very small.

Enough Said, to spin small-scale moral conflict into sharply observed, well-constructed comedy in You Hurt My Feelings (★★★★☆).In their previous outing, Louis-Dreyfus sparkled onscreen opposite James Gandolfini, playing an L.A. divorcée who discovers that the divorcé she’s dating happens to be recently divorced from the woman who’s become her new best friend.

 aired its final episode 25 years ago this month. The show and its lovable characters had not only become household names after nine glorious seasons on NBC, the show and its star-studded cast forever etched their names in pop culture lore and is now considered one of the greatest shows in television history.But there was also a sense of grief, and it was a feeling Julia Louis-Dreyfus says washed over her when the show aired the series finale in May 1998, drawing a whopping 76 million viewers. In the latest cover story, Louis-Dreyfus recalled her emotions after the hit show that launched her career came to an end.«There was a real grief period when the show ended that was real and felt,» she tells the outlet.

“Isn’t it weird that I keep making my plots revolve around this?” Nicole Holofcener asks with a laugh. We’re talking about her new film “You Hurt My Feelings” (in theaters Friday), but we’re also talking about her very first feature, the wonderful “Walking and Talking,” in which a key moment of emotional turmoil occurs when a character accidentally overhears what another character really thinks of them.

Seinfeld.The actress became a comedy icon for playing Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom. However, she wasn’t entirely fulfilled by the role when the show first aired in 1988, and subsequently asked co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld to give her character more to do.“Well, I never really approached it from the perspective of my gender, per se. I wanted to just play ball with everybody,” Louis-Dreyfus told The Daily Beast.“I’m not going to lie, in the beginning, I didn’t always have a lot to do in certain episodes.

is disturbed, he is depressed — and now he’s got an NSFW mural in Texas. A picture on a bathroom stall at Second Rodeo Brewing in Texas features a picture of actor Jason Alexander posing in his underwear in the hit NBC sitcom “Seinfeld.” “@IJasonAlexander forever immortalized in a Ft. Worth, Texas restroom,” read a viral tweet about the art — a post that has nabbed more than 4 million views since Sunday.

are go!Disney and Marvel officially confirmed the cast of the new MCU team-up film at the D23 Expo in September, and fans are already eagerly speculating about the upcoming anti-hero squad — despite the fact that it'll be nearly two more years before we get to see them onscreen together.Returning to the MCU in the upcoming film are Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as John Walker/U.S. Agent, Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr/Ghost and Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster.The film, directed by Jake Schreier, will also see Sebastian Stan reprising his longtime role as the Winter Soldier after he and Anthony Mackie most recently starred in their own Disney+ spinoff,.Marvel president Kevin Feige confirmed the team-up at San Diego Comic-Con in July, as he introduced Marvel's Phase 5 slate of film and streaming projects.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is scoring major cool points with her kids. Marvel officially confirmed  cast members at Disney's D23 Expo on Saturday, with Julia returning as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine alongside Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, with Wyatt Russell as John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster and David Harbor as Red Guardian.The film, directed by Jake Schreier, will also see Sebastian Stan reprising his longtime role as the Winter Soldier after he and Anthony Mackie most recently starred in their own Disney+ spinoff, .«It means that my children now really respect what I do for a living,» Julia quipped to ET's Will Marfuggi on the D23 red carpet over the weekend. The star, meanwhile, is also a proud momma as her 25-year-old son Charlie Hall embarks on his own journey as a working actor. Charlie recently joined the Disney+ family himself in season two of and scored a role in Mindy Kaling's HBO Max series, . «He's really digging being an actor and he's really good,» Julia gushed to ET.