Jerry Seinfeld Ain't Laughing Now

Funnyman Jerry Seinfeld got some sobering news today when a Manhattan court judge ruled the 52-year-old comedian owes $100,000 commission to the broker who helped him and his wife, Jessica, find a town house on the Upper West Side. They bought said townhouse for $3.95 million nearly two years ago.

Seinfeld said that he didn't owe the broker, Tamara Cohen, commission because she wouldn't show them the brownstone on the Jewish Sabbath, the day they wanted to see it. Are you kidding me? Isn't Seinfeld Jewish? Does he not observe the Sabbath too? It couldn't wait until after the weekend?

The Seinfelds eventually looked at the house and decided to buy it without the broker after, they maintain, they couldn't get ahold of her.

The broker said she had told the couple that she observed the Jewish Sabbath and would not be available between Friday evening and sundown Saturday.

State Supreme Court Justice Rolando Accosta said "the evidence clearly indicates she served as the Seinfelds' real estate broker" and that they had been shown many properties.

"The only real issue here, as far as the court is concerned," Accosta said in his decision, "is whether the broker's fee was 5 or 6 percent."

A trial determined the percentage, and the broker's attorney said that they were "gratified and happy with the decision, and we believe it was the correct one."

Honestly, the Seinfelds are most likely billionaires by now ... who would they tru and squelch out of a commission rightly owed? That is so not funny.

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