This year, the rest of us have more grievances than ever to air.
by “Seinfeld” writer Dan O’Keefe’s father, Dan Sr., in the 1960s and later re-purposed for the series, for which he can thank his brother, Mark.
“My loudmouth brother opens his yap about it at a party where the producers of ‘Seinfeld’ were, and they get interested,” the younger Dan O’Keefe, adding that the outlandish observance was “something that brought my family together in a shared hatred.” He told the producers he thought it was “actually just kind of horrifying” and “too weird,” but Seinfeld himself was intrigued, so O’Keefe allowed them to use it in the show.
“We put it on TV, and — I wouldn’t say the rest is history — the rest is a brief pop-culture footnote, but it’s a marginally interesting one, I guess,” he said. And just how popular is Festivus more than two decades after the “Seinfeld” episode? Festivus sweaters — to be worn at your annual Festivus party —
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