What do you say when an Epstein-linked comedy legend starts comparing pancakes to “young human flesh” on your set?
If you’re Jimmy Fallon, apparently nothing—you just sit there, smiling nervously, as Jerry Seinfeld rhapsodizes about the cannibalistic pleasures of breakfast, a moment that has left the production reeling and raised uncomfortable questions about the comedian’s disturbing Epstein ties.
“What you want in a pancake,” said Seinfeld, “is to have the consistency of young human flesh.”
“It’s spongy and has life to it,” said Fallon.
“You’re the guy in brightly coloured undergarments,” continued Seinfeld, “and you have young human flesh in front of you, you’re in a weird place.”
Fallon replied that he was “looking forward to it.”
Earlier this year, Seinfeld was mentioned numerous times in the DOJ’s Epstein files release, including a cryptic email referencing a possible visit to Little St. James Island for “lemonade.”
Seinfeld’s controversial romance with Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss — who was a high school student whom he met in Central Park in 1993 when she was 17 and he was 38 — has seen renewed interest on social media.
Seinfeld and Lonstein Gruss dated for four years, with the romance continuing as she started college at George Washington University, then transferred to UCLA, and he starred in his hit NBC sitcom, “Seinfeld.”
Back in 1994, Seinfeld characterized the relationship as serious and “proper” in an interview with People. “Shoshanna is a person, not an age,” he said. “She is extremely bright. She’s funny, sharp, very alert. We just get along. You can hear the click.” For her part, Lonstein Gruss said she just wanted to continue enjoying a “normal life and just go about being a student.”
In 1998, Seinfeld addressed the relationship after it ended – and as his hit sitcom, “Seinfeld,” was nearing its series finale, the Daily Beast said. He told Vanity Fair that he once considered marrying Lonstein Gruss.
“I know everyone looked at that relationship as here’s this rich TV guy and here’s this young, hot girl, but it wasn’t like that at all,” he said. “We were very much in love, but the timing wasn’t quite right.”