Hey everybody, check out the latest edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER, on your newsstands now. It contains an in-depth profiles of the childhood backgrounds of the Fantastic Four (i.e. Jerry, JLD, JA and the K-man).
Some highlights:
Jerry was thought of by his peers as a nerdy geek who would never succeed.
Elaine started out by doing imitations of her classmates at an exclusive all-girls prep school in Washington D.C., and her humor was particularly cruel to this one girl who hates JLD to this day.
Kramer turned on to being a comedian when he got stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits (in LA) while on a kindergarten class trip. His classmates laughed at him and he was very humiliated, but discovered that he could make friends by making people laugh. He went on to play the Tin Man in his high school's production of the Wizard of Oz.
JA was short and fat, and grew up in Livingston, NJ, about 5 miles from where I grew up!