Full Episode: "Seinfeld" E! True Hollywood Story

I didn't understand most of what I saw on TV, it didn't make me laugh, so I thought how could what I think is funny work. Jerry Seinfeld knows how funny it is, but creating a hit television show wasn't easy. Nothing happens in this store. It's the biggest group of losers we've ever seen. I think Elain is a little crazy. There was no chance of the program being picked up. Boy, we'll do four of these and go off the air if it flops. my fault but Seinfeld was a winner big hit is a hit we're huge nine seasons of comedic genius you said do this you were kissing during Schindler's List oh a Leo no for you in the next hour we'll take you inside the phenomenon I'm on E on this moment, be careful and look at the life of the cast after Seinfeld, it is difficult for the public to accept actors in new roles, free children and glasses and a kind of middle age and he does not look like it, he lost it, he tried. lash out and hurt with whatever he had this is seld's

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The E True Hollywood Story I love this TV show what do you need me for you are the core the straw that stirs the drink you are the Mahana you are the man yes you are the Mah, okay, I'm the Mah, it was the show about nothing.

Seinfeld is a show about nothing. It's in the sense that I had no interest in a lot of the things that other shows highly valued, like warmth and morale. messages, learning and relationships, it was daring because the characters were not always warm, tender and pleasant. I mean, the off-screen motto of the show was no hugging, no learning, and you know, comedies tended to end with, you know, the group hug and never that. It happened on Seinfeld so they went in a different direction and it paid off because people were hungry for something new and SEL gave it to them in November 2006.

It was definitely something when one of the Seinfeld stars lost his cool at a comedy club Los Angeles actor Michael Richards was in the middle of a stand-up routine when hecklers from the audience heckled him, according to an Internet video. Richard suddenly exploded into a racist tirade. What happened with Michael that night was very simple. He lost it for nine seasons. Michael Richards played Cosmo Kramer on the hit comedy Seinfeld, but the eccentric character was based on a real-life New Yorker named Kenny Kramer. I think he just had a horrible tantrum and tried to lash out and hurt her with whatever he had.

Richards later apologized, but the horrific tantrum erupted into a national scandal, but the Seinfeld phenomenon remains a pop culture milestone in terms of the big picture. I don't think this incident will have any effect on Seinfeld's legacy. The TV show. I have a program. on NBC, yeah, it's a comedy, no, really, and it's about me being a comedian and me being a human being and how the two relate even when I was a kid on Long Island. Jerry Seinfeld knew what he wanted to do. Jerry informed us that he wanted to be a comedian, the first thing he did was be left-handed, you know, everything about the right is positive, the Bill of Rights, the right to the right of us, everything about the left is so negative, where did everyone go, did they leave, how many people like leftovers?

I met a nice guy named Left. I will never forget. He was the first thing he did. We were hysterical. He just wanted to keep joking. call it, you get paid to do this, I just keep acting like an idiot, it's just that job, that's the job I'd like to do, that job the night he graduated from college in 1976, Jerry got the ultimate test of the real life performing at the New York Comedy Club Catch a Rising Star I woke up and you see people looking at you and I just lost control I completely froze and I could remember the topics I wanted to talk about on the beach, you know , driving your parents.

A minute and a half and I was gone. I was quite discouraged. I think he expected more from himself. He was very hard on himself. Little by little Jerry recovered each night. You know, you go on stage and you get paid over and over again. and again, even if you're doing the same things, it's like cashing the same check over and over again, didn't you come here yesterday and cash this check? Yes, I like to collect it again after doing stand-up for 4 years. Jerry moved to Los Angeles to try his hand at acting, quickly landing a role in the comedy Benson starring Robert Gon.

I think it was a very, very wide audition and it was his first Big Break. Jerry's two

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s aired in December 1980, but that was it, he was fired and Nobody actually told him that he showed up for work one day and there was no script for him, so it wasn't an auspicious debut on the show. comedy for Jerry. I don't think he enjoyed it. I don't think it was his cup of tea. I didn't understand most of what I saw on TV, he didn't make me laugh, so I thought how could what I think is funny work.

Apparently it's another type of comedy that works on television. Then on May 6, 1981, Jerry got the opportunity. He had been dreaming about uh, he has worked in many small clubs in both New York and Los Angeles, could you welcome him please? Jerry Seinfeld, the weather reports are the same wherever you go in the country, there is always a guy who shows you the highs and lows of the fronts then they show you the satellite photo, this is very useful, a photo of the Earth from 10,000 miles away. Can you tell if you should wear a sweater or not?

I have no idea what will happen in the next few years Jerry formed to sold out audiences across the country, when he leaves the J state, this is going to go crazy and that is earned, but then you have to know, after a while, that you have to be funny or interesting and Jerry has the goods, it's not like him. It's not like trading off his immense fame and not, and you know, lazily walking through a set, very few people will ever have their material as clean and polished as Jerry's, right? It's a very well-wrapped gift on the comedy circuit that Jerry knew. another young comedian, Larry David, was like Lennon and McCartney, they became that incredible, this relationship, Larry is a comedian, he was a comedian and all the comedians went crazy because the audience might hate him, but the comedians loved him.

Larry was somewhat legendary for his temper. tantrums on stage he got angry with the audience when they didn't laugh at his jokes I was temperamental I can't handle adversity I'm a big baby What's wrong with you? What are they crazy? This is funny, isn't it? I deserve it and then Larry got a job acting and writing for a comedy show called Fridays with a young actor called Michael Richards, then David worked hard as a writer on Saturday Night Live, but it wasn't a good fit. Larry resigned on Saturday. Night Live was frustrated because the sketches weren't airing and he had a huge tantrum and stormed out and then realized he needed a job and came back the next Monday morning and tried to pretend like nothing had ever happened.

Larry lasted a year on SNL before returning to stand-up during the '80s, Jerry and Larry polished their performances. Then in 1988, Jerry got a call from NBC. We were really looking for another voice, another comedic voice, and we had a meeting with Jerry and his representatives. We asked Jerry. What's that? What would you like to do on television? Would you like to do a sitcom? Would you like to do a talk show? Would you like to do comedy specials? He thanked us for the meeting and said it was everything. A comedian's dream was to have a meeting like that with a network and he had no idea what he wanted to do on television, but one night, Jerry and Larry stumbled upon an idea: The actual conception of the show took place in a grocery store when we were arguing. products and we're having one of those idiotic conversations that we usually have and we're talking about things on the shelves that the ingredients will say may contain one or more of the following and you know, what do you know?

Additives roulette. or something like that, what if you have diabetes? Contains sugar? Maybe we're not saying you know, so we were just joking and then said this is what the show should be: half-hour comedy mix scenes of the real Seinfeld performing a stand-up act with Jerry as a character from television hanging out with his friends. It's hard to distinguish between Jerry and Jerry from real television because, uh, Jerry really was himself. He wanted to do stand-up, you know, I don't want to be on just a TV sitcom where I'm Chip, the funny real estate salesman, you know, I want to be myself because I don't really want to act.

He joked that he would come to work in a pair of jeans, he would go to his dressing room and change. Putting on a different pair of jeans and going out on set, he didn't know why he did that, but he felt like everyone else was changing his costumes, so he should do it too. Jerry was a lock, but finding actors to play his friends was a difficult task. He first challenged for the role of Kramer, Tony Shalo read for the role and this actor, Larry Henen, also accepted it, but again, it was really just a matter of finding the right people and once Michael Richards came in, he was perfect for the role and he really defined that role that Michael Studios believes works in every nuance, he works very hard on it and I mean, he literally went in there, he stood on his head, he turned around, he gave it his all, Michael earned that role , the character was based on Larry's neighbor, Larry's Coming. one day at my house CR I'm going to rate this pilot with Seinfeld and I want to base a character on you, okay and I said certainly, as long as I can play Kramer and he can't be Kramer, you know?

So forget about being Kramer and I said, "Okay, do whatever you want because Kenny Kramer was a character, there were a lot of things about him that were adorable and infuriating at the same time, there were some concerns about using his real name, they had fear". that Kenny would exploit it if they named the character Kramer, so initially they decided that they were going to try to rename the character and they were going to call him Kesler and in the first

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, in fact, you can hear Jerry at one point slide and he was referring to character as Kessler, but Jerry thought Kramer was a funnier name and they decided okay, you know, we'll take the hit.

He was a character who, um, never left his apartment. He was afraid of the outside worlds. and then when I walked into Jerry's apartment, I played him behind where everyone else was. He had a way of getting up to speed for the role of Jerry's best friend, George Castanza. Jerry and Larry looked far and wide, considering Nathan Lane and Steve Bushi from The Sopranos. which would have been interesting, David Allen Greer from In Living Color, so they were really looking, they didn't know what they wanted with George until they saw Jason Alex Ander Jason, we saw it on tape, honestly, I watched 10 seconds of that tape . and I turned to Jerry and said, there he is.

Jerry smartly knew that he didn't have much experience as an actor, he was a comedian and he wanted a strong actor to be part of that ensemble. Don't know. why Jerry and I just clicked from the day we met, we got it, we just connected with each other and it was so easy and it seemed like we had been screwing each other's jobs for 19 years and he and I got along so well . Well, and it's perfect, it's perfect, but Alexander wasn't sure how to play George. He really he was doing a pretty blatant impression of Woody Allen from the beginning and, um, one day we had a couple of moments in a script and I just couldn't understand it.

I figured out how to make them and I said Larry, this would never happen to anyone and he said what do you mean what happened to me? This is a

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about me and at that moment I realized that George was Larry David's alter ego, the pilot was filmed in the early spring of 1989 at least I knew that if it bombed it would be my fault, you know, the worst It's bombing and since that guy told you to do it his way, then you don't sleep at all, Jerry and I finished the pilot and I remember him saying, what do you think we're going to accomplish? and I told him we don't have a chance and he said why did I say because the audience of the show is me and I don't watch.

Television is approaching our start of Rocky, these guys are complete losers and this cast surrounding Jerry Seinfeld sucks. Hello, welcome to Seinfeld, we are here in my offices. You see the name on the door. Get the name. Let me show you how easily. comes out see that baby is lubed up this is a permanent job in 1989 the NBC executive tried out a pilot for a new show called The Seinfeld Chronicles disastrous they said this is the biggest group of losers we've ever seen in audience research these guys They're terrible. I said, well, Jerry, people recognize Jerry, they recognize some of his stand-up stuff and they said well, the stand-up stuff that's funny, but the rest of the stuff on the show that's really terrible. , no one can relate to those things that the pilot tested so badly and everyone was worried that it was too New York, that it was too Jewish, that it was too specific, that people in Heartland wouldn't understand it, the network decided not to pick up the show, Instead, they quietly released the pilot on July 5, 1989,it only originally aired once. as a half-hour special in the middle of summer, which is usually when things that haven't worked are thrown and burned, a couple of critics noticed that, a couple of publications did some really nasty reviews of the pilot when I got to Seinfeld and the numbers weren't there and the critics were like what is this, get out of here and they went so far as to say uh, The Ensemble should be replaced, oh man, that seemed great to me, I just said.

I just tell everyone to keep their money in the bank. They know these things come and go, but Seinfeld Chronicles found an angel. NBC executive Rick lwin believed in the program. Jerry Seinfeld when we started was not a comedian who had had a fun night at uh some comedy club and someone from the casting department saw him by chance. This is a guy who had been doing that job for 10 years. He knew who he was. He knew what was fun and what worked for him. There were a lot of people here at NBC. I just thought it was really fun, really different, we didn't want to throw it away and never do anything with it.

NBC decided to purchase four additional shows to air in the summer of 1990. I kept watching this pilot saying it makes us laugh. So we took a bold step and ordered four episodes, and since Jerry likes to tell the story, six episodes is a slap in the face. NBC ordered four, it was actually a very slow development process, but as a result it gave them time. to really sort out the Kinks to get the right cast to get the right tone this show doesn't come out of Network's usual system this is a couple of New York comedians who have basically been given free rein to create and run this show based on what they think is fun, the long development process gave the creators time to tweak the formula, the cast needed a female touch, only one regular female character was this waitress, uh, gamer played by Lee Garlington, who was a little bit older, it didn't really seem like she would be friends with the guys, since she was more friendly, you know, a stereotypical kind of sour-tongued waitress, that's one of the things we said, we said, you know what you got, here you go great little clubhouse, it's unique, it's different. it's a lot of fun, but you know you need a woman, you need a woman somewhere in this show or I don't think you'll ever open it up to a wider audience again.

Seinfeld and David look to their own lives for inspiration, the character of Elaine was largely based on Carol Leafer, who was a comedian and writer. Jerry and I dated a long time ago and are still friends, so in that sense I would say it's similar to Rosie O'Donnell auditioning for Elaine. Megan Malali, who later guest-starred in another role on the show, cast Elaine, so yeah, they cast a pretty wide net, then Julia Louie dfus came in to read the part. Larry David and I worked together on Saturday Night Live. He was one of the writers were there during one of the years I was there and we met after seeing over 300 actresses for the role.

The producers knew Julia was perfect. She wasn't so sure about Julia. I didn't know if it was the right career. move on it or not because she had done a sitcom for NBC day by day that was on for a while but didn't do particularly well, so I was pretty skeptical going into it, but Julia saw this material and realized the only thing and it was special and she said this is what I'm going for. I love this television show. I think Elaa is a little crazy. I think she seems like a stable character because she's on par with psychopaths.

I mean, George is crazy and Kramer is unnecessary. I mean, I don't have to say it, I mean, you know them both and I think that makes Elaine seem very stable when in reality she is crazy when it came time to film the cast. This group of four people is, you know, very. It's unique the way we feel together, that we all happen to like each other a lot and make each other laugh, just a crowd

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of people who don't get along, no professionalism, anxiety everywhere and pressure, pressure, Pressure, I'm about to break. I'm telling you Betsy, I'm about to break down.

I've had it up to here. The revamped series finally aired in the summer of 1990. The show was now simply called Seinfeld. We thought, wow, we'll do four of these and be. just off the air, oh we were almost the first four shows the network goes on, hm, it's different, one person had no doubt it was Jerry Seinfeld, he just looked at me, says they'll pick us up, you'll see, says we're going to We're going to be around for years, we're going to be the biggest show that's ever been, you see, and he believed that there was something about Jerry, there was no chance of that show being picked up in the next competition, being behind the scenes Jason Alexander. he was actually really upset, he really had a tantrum about it Hi, I'm Jerry Seinfeld and I'm here on the set of my show, this is where I pretend I live on the show even though it's just a set.

I actually live here in January 1991. Seinfeld aired as a midseason replacement on NBC's Wednesday night lineup. Initial ratings were not good. Jake and the fat man are in front of us and they are doing very well because every time we start to get closer, he gets a little fatter and they move away again TV viewers may not have tuned in, but the comedy got reviews . We used to get good reviews even when our ratings were low and we would photocopy them and pass them around, and it somehow keeps your spirits up. Which is important when you know Seinfeld is going down and co-creator Larry David tried to tap into the humor found in everyday life.

We did a show about waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant for 30 minutes. The entire program is waiting for this. standing in line and trying to get a table and you can't get a table and this is the kind of thing that happens in people's lives, but they usually don't make shows about it because it doesn't seem important enough, the network was like you. "You're waiting for a table in a restaurant and instead of going, we didn't get it, so you can't do it, they went to do whatever you want, you're not going to be here long anyway," the editorial staff formed the team from Seinfeld into characters that the audience could identify with, they were able to take the parts of themselves that we don't like to see and don't like to admit about ourselves and exploit them with humor his name is Joe DEA his name is Joe DEA his name it's Joe DEA oh my god we're all annoying and we're all nebish but very few of us are very willing to stand up and make our character our Hall they were four of the most unpleasant people initially when they were on the air and like no one As season 2 came to an end, America slowly but surely realized how brilliant, strange, and fascinating these relationships were, the show's following small but loyal.

Seinfeld fans are almost like hikers, it's not like, hey. I saw this show, a nice show, it's like, hey, I saw the show, you know the line where you do it and then you blinked twice. D seeing this as if it were life or death, the devoted core audience and strong reviews convinced NBC to greenlight Seinfeld for a season three. We were picked up for 22 episodes in season three and we were all excited, well, maybe they'll like us, maybe we'll have something here in season 3. Michael Richards ran into what became Kramer's trademark, he didn't make an entrance, he imploded. in a room, gravity was his enemy, I mean where do you deal with people like this actually walking through the door?

Kramer really came about because I was put in line and then, of course, it starts to make sense that the character would come to life so quickly. You'll see the man painstakingly trying to figure out 500 new ways to get through a door. Now what bothers me is that they occur to him, but they are not spontaneous and that is what you have to remember every time Michael Richards makes an entrance to the public. howl, howl, it started to really bother Jerry and Larry because they felt like it slowed down the pace of the show, so a lot of the show was about timing someone who would get up at the beginning and say, look for the actor's concentration and just for the good To have enough time to convey the story in 22 minutes of air time, please hold up your applause when he enters the room.

The Seinfeld writers were also challenged to provide FaceTime for each of the four stars. Jason Alexander was actually very upset when the episode started. the pen George doesn't appear in the episode at all and he actually had a tantrum about it and told Larry David that if you were going to write to me for a week, just write to me forever and I never wrote it again so it worked out but everyone They were sensitive about their screen time. Julia said that she went to cry with Jerry and Larry several times because she didn't feel like she was on the show.

Enough, Michael wasn't there. the Chinese restaurant episode and it upset him, but I don't think he made any threats, but those characters weren't part of the story they were telling in that particular episode and they were never written again. I'm not in the scene, but it's going surprisingly well even though I'm not in it. It seems like I'm doing a good job in 1992, the series earned nine Emmy nominations and won two awards for the fourth season, the creative team raised the bar perhaps too high. take a show like the game show, you know, NBC was pretty shocked about doing a show about masturbation.

Larry was convinced that we would say that's it, you can't do this and Larry would quit, he was absolutely prepared for that and when we heard what the episode was. it was about we were like oh boy, it was really the most daring episode they had done up to that point, you know, it's an episode about masturbation that the MW never uses, it's all these euphemisms, you know, Domain Master, he's the king of the county in The initial reading of the table, George, had a line, there was a pull, but Larry even cut it because it was not necessary.

That's what turned out to be one of the best episodes in television history. You know, you know, when Kramer comes in and puts his money up. down, I'm out, you know, that says it all, we couldn't say enough, it was too entertaining in February 1993, NBC moved Seinfeld to Thursday nights to applause while the main ratings soared, we were very lucky to be able stay It was on the air long enough to get an audience, but it actually took four years. The show's hit status sparked increased interest in Jerry's personal life. The star gave the press something to talk about that year when he started dating a 17-year-old high school senior. shashana lonstein over 20 years old, her youngest, the big tabloid story when siphon was on the air was her affair with shashana Sherry is very young, a girl at heart and shashana was wise Beyond her years and they fit in, you don't necessarily go by in chronological order It was when you met someone and they seemed to get along very well.

Things were going well for Jerry and company at the 1993 Emmy Awards. Larry David won for writing the contest. He came running up to the stage and grabbed the Emmy. he said, this is great and then he looked at the audience and said, but I'm still bald. Michael Richards won the first of three awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, an award given to him by many. people I respect in the academy and to have it in my hands now is kind of an honor and after four years on the air, Seinfeld won the Emmy for best comedy series for the first time in years, we like the show, we wonder if someone else would do it and it's really a wonderful feeling when someone says I love you and Jerry appears again, he's not for sale, they were desperate, they knew they were losing a big part of their schedule with SEF by going off the air, so They backed up the money truck and I tried to throw it on Jerry's lawn, you know, I have a thing for Beth, look, I have to admit I've always found David more sponge-worthy.

I have been waiting for marriage for 3 years, yes, me too in the fall. 1993 Seinfeld began its fifth season as part of NBC's must-watch Thursday night television lineup. Fans love the show's neurotic New Yorkers. These relationships seen on camera are real, which is why people respond. There is also some excellent creative work behind the scenes of the writing and concept. Some of the funniest scenes involved TV Jerry and his many girlfriends. It was hard to get the real Jerry to kiss the girls. He finally knew that he was acting and he did it. TV Jerry wants a real relationship.

I don't think TV Jerry thinks. Beyond the cornflakes of him and I wonder where George is, Jerry's girlfriends were a big part of the show and that was a huge benefit to many young actresses in Hollywood. I mean, a lot of actresses came through there, Terry Hatcher, obviously, um, hooking up with Oren. grahamIt was a kind of passage for young Hollywood actresses to play Jerry's girlfriends. There these great characters would just show up, usually just for one episode, have some minor flaw that Jerry couldn't handle and would have to break up. along with them I'm the naked girl, there's good naked and bad naked, like straining, coughing and bending over, and in that episode I was doing a lot of bad naked things and I crossed the line for Jerry, unlike his TV Alter Ego.

In real life, Jerry was in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Shashana Lonstein, but in 1997, after four years together, the couple broke up, he was quite cagey about it and didn't talk much about it on the set of Seinfeld TV. Jerry took on the family of quirky characters, it all used to be just me, George and Kramer and then we added Elaine and then we added the parents. It was a great role because the writers gave me the opportunity to get in touch with my inner anger. Jason encouraged me to hit him. I said I can't hit you Jason he says don't be afraid I said what do you want me to do he said do this and when that happened Frank stanza was born we all have our favorites I loved Uncle Leo Uncle Leo is the type of man and you saw it coming oh god this is how Joe reacted to me oh uncle Leo hi oh god here it is again another fan favorite Wayne Knight as Jerry Newman's arch nemesis Newman is kind of like U Ebola, you know, it starts small and then just takes off like a big virus Phil Morris got the part of the talkative lawyer Jackie Childs, they call me, I start doing my thing and Jerry says, "stop, stop, stop, and as an actor, to listen, stop, you're not quite there." I'm sure what's going on.

Jerry approaches the thermostat, turns it up and is like friend you are so funny you make me sweat then there was The Soup Nazi when he imitates hallucination I just want to eat very good very good you know something and then she says there is no soup for you and she throws herself away On the first take, she wasn't expecting it and then I just yelled in her face: "No soup for you." that yada and yada over and over again I love his dominance lends itself to a kind of fanatical devotion Jerry you are a wonderful, wonderful boy, how can someone not like you or that you were kissing during Schindler's List, come back to my face, people who constantly Say that, oh, say that in season 6, Elaine met Putty, it wasn't a perfect match.

I mean, obviously, that relationship was expensive because there's no other reason she would have been there because, uh, he was just dumb. George got engaged to a girl named Susan. who died of an allergic reaction after licking their wedding invitations Susan left the show in a body bag fans get scared when they see me alive because I'm alive oh my god the series was as popular as ever with viewers and critics, but in 1996 after seven seasons, Larry David made his exit, having to create 22 episodes a year is difficult and very exhausting, so for that reason alone it was not surprising that someone wanted to take a break after Larry David left .

Jerry was in charge of the casting, he supervised the financial part, writing it and everything else, and that kind of responsibility could become overwhelming, they would shout cut and a line would form in front of him like a void, as if in a second he wouldn't I was there and the next second there were 20 people in line with cell phones and things I had to sign and agree to this and sign this and do this after the stories of David leaving became more and more absurd, they got a new group of writers and the show wasn't the same for me, they're different writers, a younger group of writers, I walked around the set with them, who are these guys, they're the writers, oh we really have writers and that's their job , cook these crazy ideas that they felt. like they had to keep outdoing themselves in terms of comedy and weren't really worried about characterization as much as getting laughs.

There were definitely times when we missed Larry's sense of humor and having him around without David the ratings remained strong. But the future of the sitcom was in doubt when Julia Jason and Michael's contracts expired at the end of season eight, the other three cast members really had to step up and say: you know they deserved some of the profits they made. They didn't want to. just being paid cast members, they wanted to actually be part owners of the show, the show was so important to NBC, they eventually contributed and everyone got their small part, even though Jerry got the biggest part, he consulted his castmates to decide the Following the show's fate in December 1997, Forsome contemplated a future without Seinfeld.

He made the other three actors a big part of the big decision-making process, especially in those later years when he was ultimately the final decision on whether the show came back or not. You can go see a good movie, but if it's 20 minutes too long, you walk out and say, "No, you don't feel good. You know the same thing with the TV show. You should leave something when it's still good. NBC." Not wanting to let Jerry go in an attempt to bring the show back for a tenth season, the network offered the star $5 million per episode.

They were desperate, they knew they were losing a big part of their schedule with Sefi leaving the program. air, so they backed up the money truck and tried to throw it on Jerry's lawn and he already had so much money that it really wasn't a motivating factor for him, he was ready to move on, you have to respect his integrity to walk away from that . because he couldn't be sure that the quality could be maintained for another year. How many plot lines can they make that don't retread old ground later? The feeling was let's finish it before we regret not finishing it.

Larry David rewrote the ending. episode that brought together many of the show's most memorable characters, we arrived on set and, uh, Jerry talked to everyone individually, thanking them all for being a part of this. The world, everyone was sitting with smiles on their faces and beneath the smiles were tears. NBC decided to just make the most of it and really build up the hype leading up to the finale and particularly the last episode which really turned into a great promo shoot. Filming started on April 8, 1998, the media swarmed, everyone was there from the local news, the national news, everyone at the door to see who was coming in to Guess Who was the guest star on Seinfeld.

The producers of the last episode went to extraordinary lengths to keep the details of the ending a secret and made us pretend to park in a parking lot and then take us to Warner Brothers Studios and Van, you know, it's all mysterious right before filming started, the cast shared an emotional goodbye in the final moments before we continued, we got into the Huddle and, uh, Jerry started to get up and said, I want to tell you something from this day whenever you want. Anyone thinks of one of us, they will think of the other three, we are inexorably linked to each other and I can't think of three other people, I would rather be linked to the final show, they were very, very sad, they had a real respect for each other on the other and a real kind of you could say mutual love at the end of an era some people loved it many people hated it after nine seasons the final episode of Seinfeld aired on May 14, 1998 the series ended with its four main characters behind.

Bars, that's exactly what should have happened, those fools should have gone to jail, they were incorrigible, inhuman, negative, insensitive, rude, you know, I mean, that was the show, the episode was watched by a television audience of more than 76 million, becoming the third most watched series finale. in the story, but the show's ending sparked mixed reactions from viewers and critics. Now a lot of people who didn't like it just didn't understand it, they thought it was a failure or a disappointment and I thought it was perfect, absolutely perfect. They didn't learn anything, they ended the way they started, frankly I was a little disappointed, it just seemed a little far away.

Some people loved it. A lot of people hated it, but fans could still get their Seinfeld fix after the series. ended the show which was first syndicated in 1995 and could be seen multiple times a day on local and cable channels, so since Seinfeld left prime time for other worlds of unlimited cable broadcasts, I think the program has actually gained popularity. The summer Jerry Seinfeld also made headlines this time for his personal life. Jerry met Jessica Scar at a gym in New York. The scandal was that she was engaged to marry Eric Netherlander, the son of a rich, powerful and influential Broadway theater family and she got married.

Mr. Netherlander went on a trip. honeymoon in Italy I spent three weeks on a four week honeymoon I decided I want to go back soon when she came back Eric was calling his friends and saying: Sit down, you'll never guess what's going on Jessica is involved with Jerry The scar from Seinfeld She maintains that her marriage had ended before Jerry began their affair, and she divorced and remarried Jerry. They seem to have a very low-key marriage, while the rest of the Seinfeld cast sought new professional challenges when they started out. on their own shows they had to become the center of the show, they couldn't be so crazy, outlandish and over the top and as a result people might have been disappointed when they tuned in in 2000 to Michael Richard's show debuting with the actor performing Sometimes I'm a clumsy detective I am discouraged.

I'm not that extroverted or that confident. I feel good. Maybe this won't happen, so we do the best we can, but if it comes to an end, I'm prepared for criticism. criticized Richard in the comedy show Tanked but Bob Patterson was not alone and listen to both starring Jason Alexander and watching Ellie starring Julia Louie drus also failed giving rise to the so-called curse of Seinfeld, it is difficult for the public to accept actors in new roles after them. I've gotten used to someone in a certain role for a long period of time for Jerry. Life after his TV comedy meant returning to a bare stage and a microphone.

Jerry is very happy to be back on his feet, that's what he likes to do and, uh, me. I think now he organizes a lot of charity events and doesn't have to make a living from it, so it must be a lot of fun. I put no limits on what Jerry can do for his future because I know what he has done, Jerry. and Jessica became the proud parents of three little ones, Sasha Julian and Shephard, he is a beloved guy and stands up with glasses. I love that. That kills me three kids and glasses and he's a little middle-aged and doesn't look it.

I'm so happy now that he has a family and that he adores them because he waited so long for Larry David to return to star him as the star of his own HBO comedy. We weren't used to seeing Larry David on camera. Seinfeld, so we didn't have such a clear idea of ​​him as an actor, but to his excitement, he obviously had a lot of success in 2006. Julia Louie drus broke the Seinfeld curse by playing the title character in the comedy The New Adventures of Old Christine No The show was only a ratings hit, but Julia won an Emmy for her starring role.

I didn't get excited about the curse. I'm just excited about this success, which surprises me, but 2006 wasn't a great year for a Seinfeld alum. On Friday, November 17, when Jerry hit the circuit to promote the DVD release of Seinfeld season 7, Michael Richards took the stage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood to perform a standup performance. Richards turned to a group of African Americans in the audience who were speaking during his The following Monday, video of the incident quickly spread to national media. Seinfeld responded with a statement saying: I am sick about this. I feel terrible for all the people who were hurt that same day.

Jerry was scheduled to appear on late night television. He asked producers to allow Richards to join him on air to offer an apology. Michael's appearance on the Let Himman show. I mean, Jerry was trying to protect his friend, I mean, and he was damage control, but I think it was too soon. I don't think it was the right place. Richards also tried to make amends during an appearance on Jesse Jackson's radio show because his hate speech is divisive and hurtful to people and then agreed to deal with his own internal things that he has to work through.

The African American community is, I mean, leadership has opened up healing and for that I'm grateful. Still, Reverend Jackson called for a boycott of the season 7 DVD. It's very sad and disconcerting that this is what it has been. It's happening, you know, Michael Richards stopped being Kramer eight years ago when the show ended production and people should get over this if you can't watch Seinfeld anymore. You have my solidarity because you arelosing a very fun show in the first week of sales of the new one. The compilation topped all previous Seinfeld DVD releases. What I'm particularly excited about is the documentary we made and it's a really in-depth look at the making of our show and that's really cool now that it's been eight years since the show left the show. air and I think it's as popular today as ever and just goes to show that funny is funny.

I don't know if there will ever be anything that big on TV. TV shows are supposed to fade away. far is harder to hold than to do it, so the fact that we're holding it, uh, I'm really excited about