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Jason Alexander

Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, NJ. While attending Boston University, Alexander gave up on his interest in becoming a magician and instead focused on theater, for which he was a natural. He left BU before his final year when he began to land paying stage work in Recent York City. Bit parts in the TV movie "Senior Trip!" (CBS, 1981) and the large screen slasher "The Burning" (1981) helped make ends encounter, but professionally, Alexander made more headway onstage. In his Broadway debut, Alexander's commanding singing voice and endearing charisma made him a good choice to play a stage producer in the unsuccessful Stephen Sondheim musical, "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981). More work on- and off-Broadway followed, notably in Kander and Ebb's "The Rink" (1984), a musical co-starring Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and Neil Simon's autobiographical engage, "Broadway Bound" (1986). Meanwhile, Alexander took a few stabs at television comedy with roles in the short-lived sitcoms, "E/R" (CBS, 1984-1985) and "Everything's Relative" (CBS, 1987). In 1989, Alexander earned a Tony Award for playing multiple roles - including Tevye from "Fiddler on the Roof" and Pseudolus

Jason Alexander

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Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television.

Alexander made his Broadway debut originating the role of Joe in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along in 1981. He remained active on Broadway acting in the musicals The Rink in 1984, Personals in 1985, and the Neil Simon play Broadway Bound in 1986. He then starred in Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award for Finest Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks's The Producers. He was the imaginative director of "Reprise! Broadway's Foremost in Los Angeles", where he has directed musicals.

His production roles include Pretty Woman (1990), Coneheads (1993), North (1994), The L

Jason Alexander Offers Up a Particularly Thoughtful Apology for Anti-Gay Comment

Last week, on the Late, Late Showwith Craig Ferguson, Jason Alexander joked that cricket was “a bit gay.” This caused a bit of a stir and didn’t really make any feeling because sports, regardless of their often personifications, are not living things that have sexual preferences. What is most compelling about this story is instead of rushing to propose some quick apology, Jason actually thought about his actions. He could possess easily had his publicist issue a statement yet he chose to inscribe a very long and thoughtful “message of amends.” Read the whole thing below:

A message of amends.Last week, I made an appearance on the Craig Ferguson show – a wonderfully unstructured, truly spontaneous conversation show. No matter what anecdotes I consider will be discussed, I have yet to locate that Craig and I ever touch those subjects. Rather we head off onto one unplanned, loony topic after another. It’s great fun trying to keep up with him and I enjoy Craig immensely.During the last appearance, we somehow wandered onto the topic of offbeat sports and he suddenly mentioned something about soccer and
Was George on Seinfeld supposed to be gay?
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Throughout Seinfeld’s run, quite a lot of jokes were made at the expense of George’s sexuality. Today, I watched an early Seinfeld episode, The Note, and one of the plot points was George’s sexual insecurity. This, together with remembrance of all the other jokes made about his sexuality, got me wondering - was George actually supposed to be some super-closeted lgbtq+ man, or am I mining far too much from the jokes? Or did this hinge on on the writer?
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No. I never mind that at all.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
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No, George Castanza was not gay, not that there’s anything wrong with that. He was just a slightly neurotic very close buddy of Jerry’s. Keep in mind the episode where he was virtual dating the girl who looked like Jerry and he was kind of grossed out by it?
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No, George Castanza was not queer, not that there’s anything wrong with that. He was just a slightly neurotic very termination friend of Jerry’s. Remember the episode where he was dating the young woman who looked prefer Jerry and he was kind of grossed out by