Summer Press Tour, Day 16: An Explosive Interview

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Fox's new late night host, TV writer Spike Feresten -- he wrote the "Soup Nazi" episode of "Seinfeld" -- was asked who he thinks does the best job in late night television.

"To me it's all about Letterman and it always will be," said the star of "Talkshow With Spike Feresten." "He is the guy. He's the reason I'm in TV."

Feresten said he didn't think "The Soup Nazi" was his best "Seinfeld" episode. It was, however, his first.

"I didn't know what I was doing. It was my first time on a sitcom and we were done editing and . . . I felt like [series creator Larry David] hated it as much as I did and I almost apologized to him in the edit room and said, 'Look, my next one will be a little better,' which it never was, by the way. It's more of a documentary. I used to write at 'Letterman' . . . and a lot of those things were said to me and I was jotting them down. There's very little creative writing in that episode."

His executive producer, Stewart Bailey, told TV critics they are developing a bit for the show in which Spike's gravestone says, "Writer of 'Soup Nazi' " with an arrow pointing down.

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Fox's new sitcom "Happy Hour" breaks new ground in that a young woman is seen eating a pizza.

The whole thing.

"The scene where you ate the pizza was very funny and it's so rare to see an actress on Fox convincingly eat anything," one critic said. "Did you have to get special permission from the network to do that?"

"There was an extensive training period, because I usually don't eat," Beth Lacke responded.

"It was, like, five takes so I'm done with it for at least a year. I don't think you'll see me eating."

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Catherine Deneuve will play a widow who has her husband's ashes put into her breast implants on the new season of FX's "Nip/Tuck," critics learned late Tuesday. Only one wonders why she's trying to dispose of the ashes, exec producer Ryan Murphy hinted, saying he thinks of Deneuve as a "French murderess."

He says the story line is based on an actual incident and that there was no plastic surgery case too bizarre for him to consider for his show -- except he doesn't think people want to see plastic surgery on children.

Is it time to go home yet?