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Jason Alexander Absolutely Hates One Seinfeld Season 5 Episode
By JEREMY SMITH
"Seinfeld" had a penchant for courting controversy, and Jason Alexander, who played George Constanza, personally objected to "The Bris," an episode involving a sacred Jewish rite.
In the episode, Jerry and Elaine become the godparents to their friends' baby and must arrange the bris. They book a problematic mohel, and Alexander despised the character.
"The version of it that came to the table [...] was disgusting," he said, calling him "child-hating, self-loathing, foul-mouthed, incompetent" and "anti-Semitic in a hurtful way."
Alexander continued, "I went to [co-creator] Larry [David], and I went, 'I won't be in this episode. This one you have to take me out. I have to boycott this.'"
David respectfully offered to soften the awfulness of the mohel. Alexander still thinks the character is in bad taste, but he was mollified enough to appear in the episode.