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The audience tonight at the Hollywood premiere of Jerry Seinfelds Unfrosted will have a lot of laughs and a bit of an unexpected political surprise. In the 90 minute comedy, Seinfeld can claim a first: a satirical segment sending up the January 6th Capitol insurgency. The premise of the film is a war between Kelloggs and Post Cereals over which one will get a jelly filled snack to grocery stores.
Hugh Grant plays the actor in the Tony the Tiger suit for Kelloggs Frosted Flakes. But he becomes increasingly upset with Kelloggs for not ventilating the suit. Finally. as the company ignores his complaints as well as Frosted Flakes the character, Thurl, turns against Kelloggs. He leads an insurgency at the Kelloggs headquarters. Grants costume is quite absolutely the same as the barechested guy who attacked the Capitol on January 6th wearing horns and a helmet. The real rioter, known as the Q-Anon Shaman, has been in jail since 2021. Grants Thurl, dressed the same way leads a huge riot outside Kelloggs with armies of cartoon cereal characters including Snap, Crackle, and Pop. They breech the perimeter, enter the building, and start ransacking it.
Too soon? Im told its like the MAD magazine version of January 6th. The movie, set in 1963, also includes send ups of JFK, Walter Cronkite, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, Nikita Khrushchev, and other 60s characters. Theres also a hilarious bit about Mad Men with Jon Hamm and Jon Slattery playing their old characters. Will the January 6th parody get laughs? Or spark outrage? I would guess the first, although even that might be upsetting that we dont take what happened three years ago seriously.
Heres a funny promo featuring the great veteran actor Geoff Pierson. The actors in the glass box are Larry Thomas as the Soup Nazi, Phil Morris (son of Mission Impossible star Greg Morris) as Jackie Chiles, and Alexandra Wentworth (aka Mrs. George Stephanopolous) as Shmoopie.
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