--- title: Jerry Stiller Makes Seinfeld Cast Laugh Endlessly in Blooper description: Jerry Stiller makes Julia Louis Dreyfus laugh so hard she breaks character and Jason Alexander falls in this Seinfeld blooper video canonical: https://time.com/5834269/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-blooper/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-05-11T15:25:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T18:26:04.000Z og:title: Clip Shows Jerry Stiller Making the Seinfeld Cast Laugh So Hard They Fall on the Floor og:description: This Seinfeld blooper shows the actor doing what he did best—make people laugh og:url: https://time.com/5834269/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-blooper/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5617c07a92a0862/698a0de2db2987269c26552b/seinfeld-blooper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jerry Stiller makes Seinfeld cast laugh og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Clip Shows Jerry Stiller Making the Seinfeld Cast Laugh So Hard They Fall on the Floor twitter:description: This Seinfeld blooper shows the actor doing what he did best—make people laugh twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5617c07a92a0862/698a0de2db2987269c26552b/seinfeld-blooper.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clip Shows Jerry Stiller Making the _Seinfeld_ Cast Laugh So Hard They Fall on the Floor > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 12, 2023 6:26 PM UTCPublished: May 11, 2020 3:25 PM UTC  Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine and Jason Alexander as George with co-stars. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine and Jason Alexander as George with co-stars. MN/YouTube by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 12, 2023 6:26 PM UTCPublished: May 11, 2020 3:25 PM UTC The world lost a comedy legend when [Jerry Stiller died at 92](https://time.com/5835043/jerry-stiller-seinfeld-dead/), a loss his son Ben Stiller announced on Monday. “I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes. He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad,” he wrote on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/RedHourBen/status/1259759084309446657) The actor and comedian had a long career opposite his wife Anne Meara before taking on his best-known role as [Festivus inventor](https://time.com/4617553/festivus-holiday-origins-seinfeld/) Frank Costanza on the hit television show [_Seinfeld_](https://time.com/4573689/stephen-bannon-seinfeld/?iid=sr-link5). A [reddit user](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/ghl3jh/you%5Fwant%5Fa%5Fpiece%5Fof%5Fme%5Fthe%5Fgreat%5Fjerry%5Fstiller/) recently resurfaced a clip from _Seinfeld_ that shows the actor doing what he did best—making people roll on the floor in laughter. The clip is circulating on social media as people pay tribute to Stiller. In the clip, Stiller, in character as [George Costanza’s](https://time.com/2951961/seinfeld-generation-gap/?iid=sr-link8) bellicose father, stands over his TV son, played by Jason Alexander, and faces off against [Julia Louis-Dreyfus](https://time.com/4961480/julia-louis-dreyfus-breast-cancer/) in character as Elaine Benes. When he makes a cutting remark about George, Elaine agrees, which sets off his paternal instincts. His hackles up, he delivers the line, “What the hell does that mean?” in a tone that is so belligerently funny that [Louis-Dreyfus](https://time.com/4653230/screen-actors-guild-awards-2017-julia-louis-dreyfus/) quickly cracks, breaking character to laugh. Alexander laughs so hard that he winds up literally rolling on the floor laughing. Take after take, Stiller gets Louis-Dreyfus laughing with just one line. As the scene slowly progresses, Stiller bellows, “You want a piece of me?!” and the entire set dissolves in laughter. It should be noted that Stiller, ever the professional, never once breaks, which makes Alexander’s and Louis-Dreyfus laugh even harder as he looms over them stony faced while they crumple over in giggles. It was such a funny scene that the _Seinfeld_ team decided to run the bloopers over the closing credits, which was not standard practice. The moment perfectly encapsulates Stiller’s incredible ability to deliver the funniest lines with a completely straight face, a hallmark of a comedic legend. Earlier this month, Louis-Dreyfus and Alexander remotely reunited as part of a fundraising effort for the nonprofit Direct Relief and they were asked about the scene. “Jerry Stiller always made us laugh,” said Alexander, beginning at the minute 32 mark in the video below. As they reminisced about Stiller’s intonation and gestures, Alexander told Louis-Dreyfus that her laugh is so infectious that once she started he couldn’t help but join in. “I think we spent 15 minutes just trying to get that little exchange,” Alexander said, laughing along with Louis-Dreyfus. Louis-Dreyfus remembered that a few weeks after filming, Jerry Seinfeld went on a late night talk show and brought the clip to show “what a professional organization he was running.” According to Alexander, while Stiller “always knew his lines,” for some reason he didn’t trust that and “a lot of the internal rage of Frank Costanza” came from Stiller’s frustration over trying to remember the correct words. Louis-Dreyfus added that Stiller created Frank’s trademark gesture of looking to the sky in frustration was actually Stiller trying to remember his lines. 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