The Jerry Seinfeld cookbook defamation lawsuit continues to baste its way through the court system.  The latest ingredient thrown into the crockpot is several prior episodes of Seinfeld in which Jerry makes fun of lawsuits. In court papers filed Friday, Seinfeld says he never mentioned Lapine by name and that “mocking the litigious nature of society is a recurring theme” of his comedy. As an example of that, Seinfeld’s papers note two 1995 episodes of his TV series “Seinfeld” that feature his side-kick Kramer’s legal misadventures.

Jerry is attempting to show that making fun of lawsuits and people who sue is simply part of his act and was not directed at the plaintiff, Missy Chase Lapine.  Seinfeld’s lawyers  previously urged a judge to throw out the defamation lawsuit brought against him.  Seinfeld claims he was exercising his First Amendment rights on the show, and that “any statements Lapine perceived to be derogatory were made while he was in comedian mode,”

“Nobody who was listening to Jerry Seinfeld thought he was doing anything but making very funny jokes,” attorney Orin Snyder told E! “Nobody believed him to be stating facts. Everyone understood him to be doing what he has done so well for so many years, which was telling jokes and entertaining. So the claim against him is frivolous and we have asked the court to dismiss it too.”

Seinfeld was sued for slander among other things by Lapine who also claims that Jerry’s wife stole her idea for a children’s healthy eating cookbook.  Missy Chase Lapine (“Lapine”) and The Sneaky Chef, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Seinfeld for copyright infringement, defamation, and trademark infringement.

Lapine, the author of “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals,” accused Seinfeld’s wife of plagiarizing her cookbook. Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food” . The publisher had previously rejected a book by Lapine but published a book by Seinfeld on the same subject.  Jerry being the comedian that he is, had his next routine laid out like red carpet.

On a nationally televised David Letterman talk show appearance he called Ms. Lapine a wacko and a crackpot and compared her to the killers of John Lennon and Martin Luther King.(video below)  Mr. Seinfeld did not refer to Ms. Lapine by name, but spoke of a “three-name woman” and said that “if you read history, many of the three-name people do become assassins.”

Jerry seems to be so mired in his egotistic world of television and comedic persona that he can not distinguish between television characters and real people.  He keeps missing the fundamental point of it all.  The David Letterman show is not Seinfeld.  MIssy Chase Lapine is not Cosmo Kramer. She is a real person.  She is is not a public figure for the purposes of his comedic act.  His defense that he did not mention her by name is half-baked.  It is a safe bet that 99 and 9/10 percent of the people watching as Letterman talked about the book while he cracked jokes knew exactly who was being discussed.

Moral of story?  Make national television fodder of Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan all you want but leave happy home-maker alone.