Getty ImagesWhen you think Taylor Swift...
Jason Alexander hopes you think of him!
TMZ caught up with the Seinfeld star after a fundraiser at the El Rey theater in L.A. this week and, upon hearing that Alexander had sung a little Swift music inside, they asked if he was a fan.
"Not only am I a Swift fan," the chatty actor revealed, "I put her in her first video."
It turns out that Alexander directed the 2007 CMA Award-wining music video for Brad Paisley's tune "Online," and he picked a then-aspiring country star named Taylor Swift and a recent American Idol contestant named Kellie Pickler to be backup dancers.
The video was also quite the Seinfeld family affair, also starring Estelle Harris (George's mom, Mrs. Costanza) and Patrick "Puddy" Warburton, as well as William Shatner, Shane West, Maureen McCormack and Alexander himself.
"Yeah, it's on me," Alexander said, deadpan, when asked if he wanted to take credit for discovering Swift. "I don't have to take credit, I have it."
He shrugged, in "whadaya gonna do?" fashion.
Swift, of course, had already released her self-titled debut album in 2006, featuring the single "Tim McGraw"—which she got to sing to the man himself at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards—so it's not as if Alexander exactly plucked her out of obscurity. But he has just ensured that Paisley's "Online" gets a whole bunch of nostalgia clicks this week.