{"id":817566,"date":"2026-07-22T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:46:11","slug":"seinfelds-jason-alexander-apologises-for-inappropriate-courtney-stodden-comedy-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817566\/","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld\u2019s Jason Alexander apologises for \u2018inappropriate\u2019 Courtney Stodden comedy sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seinfeld<\/a> star Jason Alexander<\/a> has apologised for his role in an \u201cinappropriate\u201d comedy sketch with a then-17-year-old Courtney Stodden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back at the comedy sketch in which Ms Stodden and I participated in 2012, I completely agree that it was inappropriate and I truly regret it,\u201d Alexander, 66, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

The actor, best known for playing George Costanza in Seinfeld, has apologised.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cBut more importantly, I am deeply sorry for any harm or distress it has caused Ms Stodden,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cI offer her my sincerest apologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after Stodden, 31, called out Alexander for the 2012 Funny or Die sketch, where the punchline involved him rubbing his phone against her chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was 17 years old in this photo. The older I get, the more impossible this is to understand,\u201d she wrote alongside an image from the sketch.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring this comedy sketch, Jason Alexander<\/a> repeatedly rubbed his phone across my breasts while saying there was \u2018no signal\u2019 in my head but \u2018plenty of signal\u2019 in my chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cLater in the sketch, he joked that when I turned 18 he\u2019d like to take me behind the couch and \u2018have his way\u2019 with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She noted that Alexander was credited as a writer of the sketch on IMDb.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a minor. I didn\u2019t have the legal power to decide whether I wanted to participate. The contracts were signed by adults,\u201d she said, adding that the money from the sketch went to her then-husband, Doug Hutchison, who married her when he was 51 and she was 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back now, I don\u2019t see comedy. I see a 17-year-old girl whose body became part of an adult joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Courtney<\/p>\n

Courtney Stodden is now campaigning to for a bill that would end child marriage loopholes in California.\u00a0Instagram\/@courtneyastodden<\/p>\n

Stodden said she was the \u201conly child in the room\u201d and children deserved laws that protect them.<\/p>\n

She is using her platform to campaign for AB 1267, a bipartisan Californian bill that would end child marriage, making 18 the absolute minimum age for marriage with no exceptions.<\/p>\n

Stodden was just 16 when she married The Green Mile actor Hutchison, who was 35 years her elder, in 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Doug<\/p>\n

Hutchison was 51 when he married 16-year-old Stodden.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

They quickly became tabloid fixtures until a permanent split in 2016.<\/p>\n

On the day their divorce was finalised<\/a> in 2020, Stodden wrote a long post on Instagram, that said, \u201cI look back at this picture and feel absolutely taken advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n

She accused Hutchison of grooming and verbal abuse throughout their marriage, which representatives for Hutchison have dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seinfeld star Jason Alexander has apologised for his role in an \u201cinappropriate\u201d comedy sketch with a then-17-year-old Courtney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-817566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}