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A raft of top comedic talent joins Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix movie about the origins of the Pop-Tart

The observational comedian, most famous for his sitcom "about nothing," and his super-horny 'Bee Movie,' has attracted great comic talent for his directorial debut.

Netflix announced today that comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s forthcoming Netflix film Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, his first as writer/director, has attracted a top-tier cast of some of the best comic talent working today. In addition to Seinfeld in a starring role, the thespic talents assembled will include Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, and James Marsden, late of the smash hit Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

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The film will be co-written by former talk show host Spike Feresten, ex-Seinfeld writer Andy Robin, and Barry Marder, who maybe best-known as the author of the Letter from a Nut book series. It centers around the race between cereal titans Kellogg’s and Post in the creation of the titular breakfast toaster pastry, and will be based on an old Seinfeld routine:

According to an article in Deadline, Netflix won the rights to Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts movie last year in a “competitive situation,” and it certainly didn’t hurt that Netflix paid $100 million for an exclusive deal with Seinfeld that included a set number of one-hour specials as well as streaming rights for the comedian’s conversation series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In addition, last year Netflix signed a deal to stream the sitcom Seinfeld that is reportedly worth north of half a billion dollars.

Seinfeld’s last film as writer/star was the 2007 animated film Bee Movie, which stars Seinfeld in a voice role as a bee who is attracted to a human female to such a degree that last year the comic apologized for film’s horny urtext.


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Liam McEneaney
A professional comedian since the age of 19, Liam has been writing, editing, and performing for various TV shows and websites his entire adult life. He produced and starred in 'Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!' which premiered at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival. Liam is currently attending the prestigious University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.