“It was just a very formalized setting for yelling at us.” Dan O’Keefe, the 'Seinfeld' writer who gave the world Festivus, revealed the origins of the holiday invented by his father on The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast.
podcast to talk about satire in the post-Trump age. But first, he gave hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng a surrealist tour through how Festivus came to be.
“It was a holiday that was unique to our family. That was ostensibly a strength. And it didn’t have a set date.. in real life it could just happen whenever the fuck he felt like it, or was extremely hung over and wanted to jump-start his synapses. In one year, there were two for some reason; one year, there were none. You never knew when it was coming.”
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