Crazy Joe Devola?

Who IS Crazy Joe Devola??? I always miss the shows that he's on!

Crazy Joe Davola is a writer who is mentally unbalanced. He is very paranoid and takes grave offense to the least slight, real or imagined. He was first seen in "The Pitch, Part 1," where Jerry unwittingly reveals that Kramer is having a party to which Crazy Joe was uninvited. CJD later delivers a karate kick to Kramer's head. Kramer is saved because he is wearing a motorcycle helmet he has gotten in trade from Newman, but find himself having lapses of memory, putting his pants on one leg at a time (with just one leg!) and blurting "Yo Yo Ma!" at inopportune times.

CJD has the same psychiatrist as Elaine (it's never explained WHY Elaine needs a psychiatrist) and they meet one evening outside the shrink's office building. Unaware of his identity, she starts dating him. Meanwhile, CJD is stalking Jerry because he thinks Jerry has put a hair on his tongue (don't ask!). In "The Opera," CJD and Elaine are to go to see "I Pagliacci" together, but Elaine freaks when she sees a photo montage of herself consisting of pictures CJD has taken with a telephoto lens on his wall, and dumps him. Brokenhearted, CJD weeps and lifts weights (a la Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver") and goes to the opera dressed as a clown.

CJD runs into Kramer, who is trying to scalp a ticket, and it is here we learn of Kramer's lifelong fear of clowns. Meanwhile, a street clown has been bothering Jerry and Elaine for money. Much hilarity ensues as CJD shows up and Jerry thinks he's the same annoying street clown. When they realize it's CJD, they run into the opera. Kramer joins them in their seats and tells them he sold his extra ticket to some joker dressed like a clown, and they all freak out.

Later, CJD shows up in the audience at the taping of the "Jerry" pilot and leaps from the balcony to the stage, yelling "Sic semper tyrannis" (Latin for "Death To Tyrants"), the same phrase John Wilkes Booth yelled when he shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

There's really a writer named Joe Davola. He was one of the co-creators of MTV's pioneering game show "Remote Control".

Also, one of my favourite scenes: Elaine asks CJD why he leaves his front door open (he lives in a rough neighbourhood). He tells her: "I like to encourage intruders". Kerro.