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Videos: Remembering Uncle Leo – Len Lesser Dies

Stephen Kersey — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:01:09 +0000

Len Lesser, best known for being Uncle Leo on Seinfeld, has died at the age of 88. He appeared on 15 episodes of Seinfeld and was related to Jerry Seinfeld by being Helen Seinfeld’s brother. Helen Seinfeld is Seinfeld’s mom. Len Lesser died in California due to pneumonia related to a battle with cancer.

Famous Uncle Leo episodes inclue “The Bookstore” in which Uncle Leo is caught shoplifting. In “The Shower Head”, he breaks up with Lydia after listening to Jerry — only to have Jerry convince him to get back together with Lydia. Uncle Leo also was featured in the Seinfeld finales.

Len Lesser was born in New York City and served for the U.S. Army in World War II. In addition to Seinfeld, Len Lesser appeared in a number of other sitcoms including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Monkees, Get Smart, Mad About You, Boy Meets World and Everybody Loves Raymond.

Here are some Uncle Leo videos of his memorable appearances on Seinfeld. Len Lesser may be gone but as Uncle Leo he will live on.

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I’m A PC – Bogus Buffer Placement

Jason Bean — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:26:05 +0000

Image: I’m A PC Life Without Walls website screen grab

I’m sure everyone has now experience the "I’M A PC" commercials that have been running from Microsoft recently. I’m also sure most of us would agree that they’re better, share a better story, and saved a bunch of money compared to the Seinfeld ads they originally premiered.

Tim Heuer shared an image that captures a bit of a bummer of a location to place a "buffering" image over a video that’s trying to load for the campaign.

I tried to find the video and see if the buffering placement was an issue for me as well, but mine loaded too quickly I guess. Check out Tim Heuer’s image he shared with the world.

It kind of gives a new meaning to "graphic" placement.

Pretty funny stuff.

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New Gates and Seinfeld TV Commercial – Shoe Circus

Jason Bean — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:06:18 +0000

As I was enjoying the opening game of the NFL season tonight I got to catch one of the new commercials starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

The commercial appeared to me to follow in the footsteps of the TV show “Seinfeld” and was a bunch of nothing.

Did anyone else think this too? I’ve watched it now a couple of times and there’s nothing much in the commercial that makes me excited about Microsoft or its products.

Are these the commercials that were paid for to fight the Apple PC vs. Mac ads?

Are these going to build on each other like some kind of advertising mini-series?

What gives?

Still waiting.

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