As I rained blows upon him, I realised there had to be another way…”
The original Festivus was inaugurated in New Jersey in 1966, the date chosen to commemorate O’Keefe’s first date with his future wife Deborah.
And so Festivus came to pass, an anti-commercial and secular alternative to Christmas invented by the irascible Frank Costanza (Jerry Stiller) in a season nine episode of NBC’s all-conquering sitcom Seinfeld.
I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man.