Josh Gad Says His Youngest Daughter Is Fully Obsessed with “Seinfeld”, Jokes ‘I’ve Done a Great Job Raising Her’ (Exclusive)

Gad shares daughters Isabella, 12, and Ava, 15, with wife Ida Darvish

NEED TO KNOW

• Josh Gad told PEOPLE that his 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, is binge-watching Seinfeld, which he finds “so wonderful”
• Gad and his wife, Ida Darvish, also share daughter Ava, 15
• The Frozen actor revealed his plans to watch Friends or The Office next with Isabella as their family bonding continues

Josh Gad is sharing how his daughter has inherited his love of humor.

While stepping out to Disney's Toast to Television Red Carpet at Soho House Holloway on April 27, the Frozen actor shared how his daughter, Isabella, surprised him with a show she's binge-watching.

"My girls are very funny because my 12-year-old has decided to binge Seinfeld, which is so unexpected but so wonderful," Gad, 45, told PEOPLE exclusively at the event. "I feel like I can safely say I've done a great job raising her."

He added that Isabella is "fully into" the '90s sitcom, even though it ended years before she was born.

Meanwhile, Gad's older daughter, Ava, 15, is more interested in teen-focused shows that are outside of his knowledge level.

"My other daughter is watching teen shows on Netflix that I just don't understand. I sit there and try to absorb it with her, but I'm usually very confused," he said.

For Gad's next watch with Isabella, he shared that the two plan to try either Friends or "eventually" The Office.

Gad shares his daughters with wife Ida Darvish. The two first met in 2004 while they were working on a play called All in the Timing, in which they played a married couple.

"I fell head-over-heels for her. At the time, she was 29 and I was 23, and we were both shocked when we learned the other person's age," he recalled to The i Paper. "It was one of those things where it was just kismet, and we've been together ever since."

Gad and Darvish, 51, eventually got married in 2008.

In addition to watching their favorite TV shows, Gad's daughters also find time to read and explore other interests. "My kids actually took to reading far younger than I did," Gad previously told PEOPLE.

He added, "I dreaded reading, if I'm being fully honest, until the age of 14. I always saw it as work rather than a joy, and I didn't want that for my kids. So when they were between 2 and 4, I started reading the Harry Potter books to them, and they really fell in love with it."

Gad has also spoken about how he and Darvish tried to be conscious when it came to giving their daughters technology — which inspired him to write a book called PictureFace Lizzy.

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"My wife and I were both very concerned about the girls having that stuff too early," he told PEOPLE in March 2024. "Not only because of the content they're exposed to, but more importantly because of what might be lost in the process, which is their imagination, their creativity and their ability to create outside of just the digital space."

"We are the parents who are screamed at every day of the week by our children, saying, 'Why can't you just be like everyone else's parents and let us have unlimited screen time and phone time?' " Gad explained in another interview in March 2025. "But the truth is I think we're both aware of the fact that this technology is addictive, clinically proven to be addictive, and at the same time unavoidable."

He said that he and Darvish use Snapchat to communicate with their daughters. "When we determined that her friends were using [Snapchat] as their primary source of communication, my wife saw that Snapchat had a family center with controlled settings," he said.

As the children got older, however, Gad became more aware that he wasn't a "cool dad." He opened up about the realization for the Kindle Kids and Kindle Kids Backseat Book Crew campaign in June 2025.

"Here's when they think I'm cool," he said at the time. "When a friend of theirs comes up to me and is like, 'Can you tell me about Frozen 3?' They'll be like, 'Oh, Dad's got utility. That's cool.' So it's either that or when a famous person calls me on my phone, and they're like, 'How do you know that person?!' That's when the cool quotient kicks in."

Gad has recently appeared in the TV series Wonder Man and in Zootopia 2. According to his IMDb, he has a few upcoming projects in the works, including playing Olaf in Frozen 3, reuniting with his The Book of Mormon costar Andrew Rannells in Stay Tuned and joining Ariana Grande in the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go!.

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