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The Bobcat Goldthwait Joke That (Allegedly) Made Jerry Seinfeld Hate Him Forever

Bobcat Goldthwait mocked Jerry Seinfeld on ‘Arsenio’ in 1994, and Seinfeld was still angry about it decades later.

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To say that Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t like Bobcat Goldthwait would be a huge understatement. Goldthwait evidently first raised Seinfeld’s ire in April 1994, when he appeared on one of the final episodes of The Arsenio Hall Show. For whatever reason, Goldthwait decided to do some Seinfeld bashing during that interview, despite Hall attempting to deter him.

“He’s a spooky, weird Scientologist guy banging teenage girls,” Goldthwait told Hall.

For context, Seinfeld once studied Scientology and was allegedly dating a woman at the time who was 17 years old when he’d initially met her. Goldthwait........

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