SEINFELD KIDS AROUND ; JERRY AND JESSICA ARE HAVING A BABY
Jerry Seinfeld is going from yada, yada, yada to dada, dada, dada — and the sitcom king says he and his pregnant wife have already picked out a timely name for their firstborn.
“We’re going to name him Elian Gonzalez — and we’re going to raise him a Cuban,” a beaming Seinfeld told The Post yesterday.
The former Master of His Domain spoke outside his Upper West Side home after revealing to the world — via morning-TV host Regis Philbin — that his bride, Jessica Sklar, is three-months pregnant.
“I’m very happy about it,” the 45-year-old comic said.
When asked if he and Jessica wanted a boy or a girl, Seinfeld flashed a devilish smile.
“Maybe something else,” he wisecracked.
The multimillionaire comic — who took full advantage of his wild and crazy bachelor days before settling down with Sklar last December — also chirped, “It’s good to know all those years of birth control were actually doing something.”
And if 28-year-old Jessica is thinking about getting any rest over the next few years, she’d better think again — her famed hubby has plans for a big family.
“I’d say five or six,” he told The Post when asked how many children he and Jessica planned to raise.
Seinfeld made the announcement of his impending fatherhood through his pal Philbin, who spilled the beans on “Live with Regis & Kathie Lee.”
The comic apparently cleared Philbin to serve up the news, and the host informed viewers the little Seinfeld is scheduled to arrive in October.
In the past week, there had been growing speculation that Jessica was in a family way after The Post published a photo of the couple exiting a medical building that houses several obstetricians.
The couple is now busy renovating their Central Park West home, which is said to include a state-of-the-art nursery.
Baby Seinfeld also will have plenty of room for all that kid stuff like swing sets, playhouses, bicycles and building blocks at the family’s country home. Seinfeld is reportedly paying more than $30 million for Billy Joel’s 12-acre oceanfront mansion in the Hamptons.
One person definitely not sharing in the Seinfelds’ joy is Eric Nederlander, the Broadway theater scion who wed Jessica last year — only to be dumped three weeks later when she ran off with Jerry.
Asked if he wanted to wish the happy couple luck, Nederlander tersely told The Post:
“I have no comment about the baby, I have no comment about Jessica and I have no comment about Jerry. I’ve moved on — I’m happy now.”
Seinfeld’s plan to be a doting daddy is a far cry from the way he treated babies — and their proud parents — on his classic sitcom.
In one episode, an overjoyed couple invite Jerry and the gang to see their “beautiful and perfect” newborn.
But when Jerry lays eyes on the infant, he’s agog.
“That’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen,” the sitcom king shudders to himself.
In another show, a wisecracking moyle wrecks a circumcision ceremony.
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