Jerry Seinfeld calls WFAN, roasts two New York sports teams
Jul 5, 2019; New York City, NY, USA; American comedian Jerry Seinfeld at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports
It’s not everyday that you receive an unexpected phone call from legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld, but that’s precisely what happened to WFAN host Chris McMonigle and producer Paul Rosenberg this week.
Shortly after Rosenberg took a shot at the famous 1990s sitcom, claiming the Season 8 episode “The Chicken Roaster” was one of the few good episodes, “Jerry from New York” rang in. It didn’t take long for the pair to realize who they were speaking with.
“It doesn’t bother me, I’m OK with it,” Seinfeld said after Rosenberg suggested there were only three good episodes.
In response, Seinfeld used that as an opportunity to roast the New York Giants, who have become an NFL laughingstock in recent years.
“Look, we made 180 Seinfeld episodes. So, we made three good ones. We’re like the Giants. We’re 3-177,” he quipped.
But Seinfeld wasn’t done there. The notorious New York Mets fan also made sure to throw a few jabs at their cross-town rivals, the New York Yankees, who are fresh off a World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“You could make a pretty good argument that this season was the most magical Mets season, not counting the two World Series wins,” Seinfeld said. “It was a chemistry and it was an energy and it was an emotional thing of guys that weren’t supposed to be that good.
“I don’t know what can beat that. Does winning with Juan Soto and Shohei Ohtani, would that be as fun as this? As an adult to be jumping up and down and screaming, what makes you jump up and down and scream as an adult? Nothing.”
The Yankees, of course, did not win and Seinfeld wanted to the plunge the dagger in a bit further by bringing up their disastrous fifth inning in Game 5.
“But tell me about the pain of the fifth inning,” Seinfeld said to McMonigle, a Yankees fan. “Tell me about that. I wanna know, what did that feel like as a fan?”
McMonigle didn’t want to relive it but Seinfeld wouldn’t relent.
“Yeah, I wanna hear your pain,” Seinfeld said. “Your pain is my pleasure.
“Did you notice the next day after that game, the Yankees hats per block in Manhattan went from six to zero in one day? As a Mets fan, that was a very thrilling moment for me.”
Giants and Yankees catching some random strays from Jerry Seinfeld. New York really is a heckuva town.
