The Jacket (Seinfeld) The Jacket (Seinfeld) "The Jacket" is the third episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" and the show's eighth episode overall. In the episode, protagonist Jerry Seinfeld buys an expensive suede jacket and has dinner with the father of his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. Elaine's father Alton (Lawrence Tierney), a war veteran and writer, makes Jerry and his friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander) very uncomfortable. Elaine is delayed and Jerry and George are stuck with Alton waiting for her at the hotel. The episode was written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and was directed by Tom Cherones.
Jerry Seinfeld the 40th anniversary special of "Saturday Night Live". In January 2017, Seinfeld signed a comedy deal with Netflix. As part of the deal, all episodes of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" would be made available on the streaming service, in addition to a new twenty-four episode season. The deal also included two new Seinfeld stand-up specials and the development of scripted and non-scripted comedy programming for Netflix. On September 19, 2017, Netflix released the standup comedy special "Jerry Before Seinfeld". Seinfeld wrote the book "Seinlanguage", released in 1993. Written as his television show was first rising in popularity, it is