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Mr. Lippman is the boss of Elaine at Pendant Publishing. He was portrayed mostly by Richard Fancy, but in season 3's “The Library”, the actor who portrays Mr. Lippman is Harris Shore.

Biography[]

Mr. Lippman is the Jewish owner of Pendant Publishing and Elaine's boss for the first half of the series. He is divorced and has a son, Adam Lippman. Elaine makes numerous decisions that upset Mr. Lippman, such as recommending Marion's book of poetry that brought Kramer to tears in “The Library” (in "The Library" Mr. Lippman is played by Harris Shore).

She convinced him to hire George in “The Red Dot”, whom Mr. Lippman later fires for having sex with the cleaning woman on his desk.

Mr. Lippman also got upset with her edit of Jake Jarmel's book in “The Sniffing Accountant”, which he felt she added too many exclamation points.

In “The Cigar Store Indian”, Lippman bought a Cigar Store Indian from Kramer in which he agrees to publish Kramer's coffee table book. He also put Elaine in charge of editing it with Toby.

When a promotion becomes available in “The Fire”, Lippman gives it to Toby because he felt sorry for her losing her pinky toe. It is also revealed that he respects Elaine's opinion in spite of her many mistakes.

In “The Marine Biologist”, he had Elaine help him greet a famous Russian writer Yuri Testikov in a limo, but she ends up offending him by saying War and Peace was originally supposed to be titled War: What is it Good For? Testikov published his latest book with Pendant anyway.

In “The Opposite”, it is revealed Pendant Publishing is in severe financial trouble. Lippman also stops Kramer from continuing his book tour for the coffee table book because of Kramer's appearance on Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee, where he spit bad coffee all over Kathie Lee's dress. Pendant was going to be saved by a Japanese publishing company, but Lippman unintentionally offended the Japanese man by not shaking his hand (Lippman had a cold and wanted to avoid giving him germs). This causes the merger to be called off and puts an end to Pendant Publishing and Elaine and Kramer to lose their jobs.

In “The Scofflaw”, Lippman was attempting to revive Pendant Publishing by publishing Jake Jarmel's latest book. This failed due to Elaine causing a fight between Jake Jarmel and Lippman over Lippman having identical glasses to Jake's allegedly rare ones.

In “The Muffin Tops”, Elaine encounters Lippmann at Jacopo Peterman's book-signing event. Lippman opens up a bakery that sells only muffin tops called Top of the Muffin to You! This fails because of an inability to dispose of the muffin bottoms. Elaine and Lippman later enlist Newman to dispose of the muffin bottoms where he ends up eating them.

In “The Serenity Now” Lippman also invited Elaine to his son's bar mitzvah, where Adam kisses Elaine because he is "a man" now. Adam renounces Judaism when it is revealed he technically isn't a man yet. Lippman himself also tries to get together with Elaine, even renouncing Judaism himself when she claims he only likes her because she has shiksa-peal.

Testifying against George[]

"So, based on Ms. Benes' recommendation, Mr. Constanza came to work for me."
―Mr. Lippman, during Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer's trial

When Elaine, Jerry, George, and Kramer were arrested in Latham County on a charge of criminal indifference, the so-called "New York Four" were brought to trial at the Latham District County Court. In an attempt to demonstrate to the jury that the event for which they were charged was not an isolated incident, District Attorney Hoyt called on several individuals from the four's past to testify against them, one of whom was Mr. Lippman. During his testimony, Mr. Lippman explained that George came to work for him because of Elaine's recommendation. Mr. Hoyt inquired as to what happened next, and Mr. Lippman told him about the incident in which George was caught having sexual intercourse with the cleaning lady on the desk in his office. At this, Mr. Hoyt proclaimed that they add sexual harassment to the "laundry list," though Jackie Chiles, the "New York Four"'s lawyer, rose from his seat and asked since when had it been illegal to have sex with a maintenance worker.

Following several other witnesses, the jury began deliberating on its verdict. As they did so, Mr. Lippman sat with Babu Bhatt, Robin, and Poppie, and were served soup by Yev Kassem, also known as "the Soup Nazi." While Mr. Lippman, Babu, and Robin complimented the soup, Poppie motioned for some salt, which prompted the Soup Nazi to angrily take his soup away. Once the jury finished their deliberations, everyone was summoned back into the courtroom, and Mr. Lippman stood in the back alongside the others who had testified against Elaine, Jerry, George, and Kramer, who were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison.

Appearances[]

Season 3[]

Season 5[]

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