On Seinfeld's defense to the plagiarism charge by his wife...

It might look like storm in a tea cup, but the defense by Jerry Seinfeld of the plagiarism charge by his wife in her new cookbook is pretty lame.

It would not do, to say that his wife does not need the money or attention, hence the need for plagiarizing other's work.

It would not do, to say that the two cookbooks came out about the same time. (Actually, his wife's cookbook came out sooner after the one from Missy Chase Lapine.

What matters is that, Missy Chase Lapine had tried to shop her book for a publisher to HarperCollins, who turned hers down and, in turn, turned around and publish Jessica Seinfeld's book on almost the exact same theme. Has HarperCollins the publisher actually made suggested to Jessica Seinfeld, after reading Lapine's copy? We never know. Certainly, Seinfeld and HarperCollins will not tell, in line with trying to keep their good name. But it certainly smells fishy to me. If it indeed happens, Jessica Seinfeld (and Jerry, no doubt) perhaps could claim that she's innocent; but it would not lessen the charge that the materials in her book indeed came from somewhere else (rather than all original of her own).

And it's truly very lame, to have Jessica Seinfeld had her husband coming out to speak up for her. While her husband might be big in the stand-up comics world, does she really, in her right mind, think that her husband's words of defense is going to do anything to the bookie's world? I don't think so.