As the scene slowly progresses, Stiller bellows, “You want a piece of me?!” and the entire set dissolves in laughter. Take after take, Stiller gets Louis-Dreyfus laughing with just one line. Alexander laughs so hard that he winds up literally rolling on the floor laughing. His hackles up, he delivers the line, “What the hell does that mean?” in a tone that is so belligerently funny that Louis-Dreyfus quickly cracks, breaking character to laugh. When he makes a cutting remark about George, Elaine agrees, which sets off his paternal instincts. In the clip, Stiller, in character as George Costanza’s bellicose father, stands over his TV son, played by Jason Alexander, and faces off against Julia Louis-Dreyfus in character as Elaine Benes.
