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When it debuted, there truly was nothing else in the world quite like "Seinfeld." The "show about nothing" followed four New Yorkers as they struggled with forging their careers, finding love, and managing their various neuroses, and one of the things that really made it sing was the comedic chemistry between the four leads. While the show was ostensibly about comedian Jerry Seinfeld, playing a fictionalized version of himself à la the show's creator, Larry David, his friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George Costanza (Jason Alexander), and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) all bring their own unique comedic sensibilities, making it so much more. 

Originally Elaine wasn't supposed to be one of the four leads, however, as the pilot that originally got picked up by NBC was going to mostly be about the three guys, with an occasional female fourth in the role of a waitress named Claire (Lee Garlington). In...

"Seinfeld" might've needed a few seasons to catch on with television viewers, but one element of the show that was a knockout from day one was Michael Richards' wildly idiosyncratic portrayal of Cosmo Kramer. An unapologetically intrusive neighbor who bursts into Jerry's apartment without knocking, helps himself to whatever is in the refrigerator or pantry and makes wild assertions about any topic that happens to be on his or someone else's mind, Kramer was the show's most reliable generator of belly laughs early on and became the series' first breakout character.

Like the other three main characters on the sitcom, Kramer was based on a person from Jerry Seinfeld and series co-creator Larry David's life. It didn't take long for journalists to discover the existence of Kenny Kramer because he was determined to cash in on his quasi-celebrity, but this also complicated things for the show. While Kenny Kramer,...

While the Seinfeld gang clearly had a deep disdain for humanity in general, at least Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer all seemed to like — and possibly even love — one another. But behind the scenes, the core cast wasn’t quite as tight as you might have thought.

Jason Alexander recently guested on Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast, and naturally they discussed his work with their mutual friend, and Papa’s former Marriage Ref boss, Jerry Seinfeld.

When asked about making the show with Jerry, Alexander made a borderline shocking revelation. “Here's the truth, it is kind of a weird truth,” he told Papa. “The only one of the core four I really got to know over the nine years was Julia (Louis-Dreyfus).”

According to Alexander, he became more aware of just how little he knew about Michael Richards after reading his recent memoir. “I got in touch with him,...

With the show continuing to find new audiences in the streaming era and influence current sitcoms, it's safe to say "Seinfeld" is one of the greatest comedies of all time. Created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the show ran for nine seasons from 1989 to 1998, depicting the misadventures of a fictionalized version of Seinfeld and his friends. Each episode was relatively self-contained, with Jerry and his friends running into various misanthropic antics involving dating, their careers, and living in New York City. For a show seemingly about nothing, the phrases, terms, and scenarios throughout "Seinfeld" have entered the modern lexicon as a testament to the show's legacy.

While many of the show's 180 episodes are enduring classics, there are a handful that are just a cut above the rest (with some stinkers mixed in occasionally). From giving each of its main ensemble perfectly inane storylines to thoroughly quotable scenes, these episodes...

When Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld co-created Seinfeld in 1989, they likely had no idea the groundbreaking sitcom would go on to redefine television comedy. The show, which debuted in The Seinfeld Chronicles that same year, became a cultural phenomenon over its nine-season run, influencing countless TV shows that followed.

Larry David | Credits: CBS

With its signature “show about nothing” premise, Seinfeld focused on the small, absurd moments in everyday life, delivering endless opportunities for sharp, often hilarious commentary. However, even after 17 years since Seinfeld aired its finale, co-creator David remained as elusive as ever when it comes to discussion about the beloved series. In a 2014 interview, David declined to reveal his favorites from the show.

Larry David refused to answer his favorite character from his hit show Seinfeld

In 2014, Seinfeld co-creator Larry David sat down for an interview with Rolling Stone. While ranking the Top 100 characters of the NBC show...

It's important to remember that the four lead characters of the popular sitcom "Seinfeld" — Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards) — are not good people. Most of the plots of "Seinfeld" episodes stem from their petty grievances, neurotic complaints, and unsophisticated discomforts. The central quartet were insensitive, callow, rude, self-indulgent, and weak-willed. They weren't ever presented as aspirational or even admirable. This spring from a mandate laid out by the series' co-creators Seinfeld and Larry David, namely: the show was to feature no hugs and no lessons. It was to be about nothing. This was to be a sitcom completely devoid of morals and sentimentality.

As such, it made perfect sense for the star characters to end the show in prison. In the two-part finale, called "The Finale", the four of them witness a man getting carjacked at gunpoint and choose to mock the victim's weight rather than help.

One of the nice things about being on a long-running series is that sometimes you get the chance to have friends and family members make cameos. Just look at "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," where all of the gang's spouses have had major cameos and some of their children have even gotten in on the fun. On the hit NBC series "Seinfeld," which helped pave the way for "It's Always Sunny," the cast had a chance to get their loved ones involved on more than one occasion. Close friends and family members made appearances throughout the series, but one of the most important for star Jason Alexander, who played the nebbish George Costanza, came in the show's most controversial episode.

It turns out that while several of Alexander's loved ones had gotten a chance to appear on the series, his wife, painter Daena Title, didn't have a cameo until the series finale,...

Prior to his work on the hit 1989 sitcom "Seinfeld," comedian and actor Michael Richards might have been best-known for his amazing performance in the same year's cult comedy "Uhf," playing the hapless, heroic janitor Stanley Spadowski. Others may also recognize him for playing a violent murderer in "Problem Child," or the slapstick butler Fejos in "Transylvania 6-5000." Of course, those who were watching the ABC stand-up series "Fridays" back in 1980, would already have known Richards for his comedy. By the time "Seinfeld" appeared in his path, Richards was already an experienced performer. 

"Seinfeld," of course, made Richards a millionaire and a household name. Playing the role of Cosmo Kramer netted him three Emmys, and it led to high-profile roles in studio comedy films like "Airheads," and "Trial and Error." He would remain popular until an infamous 2006 incident at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, California, wherein he aggressively berated hecklers with racial epithets.

Everything about your favorite sitcoms feel as though they were fated to be. 60 actors auditioned for the role of Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show," but Van Dyke, creator Carl Reiner and the casting director couldn't have known at the time that they were waiting for pool shark Mary Tyler Moore to show up and blow them away. Fortunately, the universe interceded. The cosmos also ensured that "Cheers" would not only survive two major cast departures, but launch the replacement actors (Woody Harrelson and Kirstie Alley) to full-fledged stardom. And when you upset the karmic whims of the television firmament, you get Danny Cooksey in "Diff'rent Strokes."

Piecing together a successful sitcom is tricky business, so it's best not to be rash in your decision making. Obviously, you need to give yourself space to try things because you're creating a universe and characters that are meant to enchant for the long haul (i.

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Netflix is the biggest streaming platform in the world and it can be easily said that it has the best content library when it comes to TV shows and movies. In this article, we are going to list the best of the best shows currently available on the streaming service. We avoided popular titles like Love is Blind and Too Hot To Handle as we are not going to include reality TV shows in this list. Check out the best TV shows you can watch right now on Netflix below.

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Cobra Kai is a martial arts comedy-drama series created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg. Based on The Karate Kid film franchise by Robert Mark Kamen, the Netflix series is set 34 years after the events of the first Karate Kid film, and...

As President Donald Trump takes on his role as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center, “The Daily Show” gave viewers an exclusive look at how he plans to revamp the “woke-y” performing arts center.

“So what will Trump’s new role mean for the Kennedy Center? We at ‘The Daily Show’ just got our hands on an exclusive look at what we can expect,” Klepper says before production goes into its presentation of Trump’s “Kennedy Center and Casino,” which features boxing matches and adult entertainers.

“The Kennedy Center, America’s most prestigious home for the highest arts, is about to get–” the announcer says, before rock music takes over. “Sign up now for an all-new season designed by Chairman Trump. Screw off, Twinkle Toes, because all ballet will now be done by pole dancers — talk about a nutcracker.”

The announcer continues: “And join us for our cinema series,...

If you were to attempt a "Seinfeld" tour of the world, where would it take you? Plenty of fans of the beloved show have made a point to visit its most well-known landmarks, from the diner to the exterior of Jerry's apartment to the original (now replaced) Yankees Stadium. Along the way, they've all made a similar discovery: "Seinfeld" may be one of the most famous shows ever set in New York City, but its East Coast filming locations have greatly changed in the decades since the show debuted, and much of the heart of the show actually lies on the opposite U.S. coast.

"Seinfeld" was created in California just as much as New York, but there are still places you can visit to retrace the chaotic, delightfully morally bankrupt steps of Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards). The parking lots, office buildings,...

Larry David: Star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld’s head writer and an auction-worthy hunk whose “premature baldness is caused by an overabundance of testosterone”?

Much to everyone’s surprise, the thirsty quip — and several other hilarious horny inside jokes about Seinfeld’s cast and crew — graced the pages of a recently unearthed prop program appearing during the “bachelor auction” scene of Season Five’s “The Barber.”

The first glimpse at this tawdry Seinfeld relic came on Friday, when Stephanie Kennedy, the sitcom’s costume supervisor and the woman behind the wildly popular “Seinfeld Backstage” Instagram page, put the item up for auction during her social media fundraiser for actors impacted by the L.A. wildfires.

Unlike Kennedy’s lot, though, which aimed to aid Angelenos in need, the show’s bachelor auction had a much different goal — helping “The Liberated Sisters of Spinsterhood,” a charity we assume isn...

The golden age of sitcoms came and went, leaving fans reeling over the tremendous shows that were produced at that time including Seinfeld and Friends. These shows were true comedic treasures and have continued to shape the pop culture of today.

Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards in the finale of Seinfeld | Credits: NBC

From Jerry’s quest to make it big in the comedy world to Chandler’s sarcastic quips that kept the friends in splits, the sitcoms paved the way for more humorous content to follow.

However, there’s one criticism that has plagued both legendary shows alike. Read on to know what qualms fans have with Seinfeld and Friends and how both the series have reacted to it.

Jerry Seinfeld reacts to the show’s lack of diversity

In today’s ultra-woke world where equal representation and inclusivity have become buzzwords of the top order,...

Michael Chiklis is most (and deservedly) famous for playing corrupt LAPD detective Vic Mackey on "The Shield" -- but before that, he was more of a comedy actor. There's a reason he got the part of Ben Grimm/The Thing in director Tim Story's super family-friendly "Fantastic Four" films.

Before "The Shield," Chiklis' two leading TV roles were "The Commish" (about a wholesome police commissioner in a small New York town) and "Daddio" (a short-lived sitcom about a stay at home dad). Then he made a conscious choice to change his image, shaving his head, going to the gym and ultimately landing "The Shield" due to a run-in with his neighbor, series creator Shawn Ryan.

If this sounds familiar, or Chiklis' past roles make his performance as Mackey seem shocking, remember that Bryan Cranston also played goofy dad Hal on "Malcolm in the Middle" before he became Heisenberg on "Breaking Bad.

If you think "Seinfeld" was all about its fab four of Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards, I envy you. This means you have nine unwatched seasons of sitcom genius waiting for you on streaming. If there's a "Seinfeld" fanatic in your life, you probably know about frequently recurring characters like the weaselly Newman (Wayne Knight), George's eccentric parents (Jerry Stiller and Estelle Harris), and standouts like the Soup Nazi (Larry Thomas), but do you know about the deadpan majesty of David Puddy?

Portrayed by Patrick Warburton (to the consternation of his father), David Puddy first appeared in the classic season 6 episode "The Fusilli Jerry." Puddy is Jerry's friend and mechanic who violates an unwritten guy rule when he steals Jerry's coital "move" while having sex with Elaine. This sets into motion a series of hilariously petty complications, so no one was upset to see Puddy return...

Commonly regarded as one of the best sitcoms of all time, Seinfeld, aka “the show about nothing,” chronicles four self-absorbed friends in New York City navigating mundane aspects of daily life while adding clever, observational humor to the mix.

Created by Larry David and starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards, the show ran on NBC for nine seasons from 1989-1998, and is considered a staple of ’90s culture.

We’re ranking the top 10 best episodes of all time, according to fans, based on IMDb rankings.

Keep reading to find out about the funniest Seinfeld episodes here…...

Jerry Seinfeld and his gang made viewers laugh with their ‘show about nothing’ for nine seasons. Fans expected the near-perfect series to go out with a comedy bang. Instead, Seinfeld opted to make the most divisive finales in sitcom history. The two-part finale saw the four central characters finally facing the consequences of all their past misdeeds.

Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander in Seinfeld | Credits: NBC

Many fans thought that the episode did not align with the tone of the show. Viewers didn’t want to see their favorite characters put in jail, despite how despicable the characters were. In retrospect, a large number of fans have started seeing the Seinfeld finale in a more positive light.

What happened in the finale of Jerry Seinfeld’s show and how did it fare? Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards in the finale of Seinfeld | Credits: NBC

In the Seinfeld finale,...

When he isn't making us laugh on shows like "Harley Quinn" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (not to mention in ever-present "Seinfeld" reruns and that one "Criminal Minds" episode where he has an incredible wig), Jason Alexander works behind the camera as a director, writer, and producer. By this point in his considerable career, the actor and artist has helmed several noteworthy projects, including episodes of hit sitcoms like "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Young Sheldon," plus, yes, "Criminal Minds."

Despite the strong trivia culture surrounding Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's masterpiece comedy "Seinfeld," lots of people don't actually seem to know about Alexander's directorial contribution to the show. He actually cut his teeth as a filmmaker on the season 3 episode "The Good Samaritan," which became Alexander's first-ever credit as a director in 1992. Later in the show's run, he also directed two clip show episodes, although corny, self-congratulatory clip shows...

Audition tapes from The Office feature a virtual who’s who of 21st-century American comedy, with Seth Rogan, Adam Scott, Eric Stonestreet, John Cho, Bob Odenkirk, Kathryn Hahn, Judah Friedlander and Patton Oswalt all trying and failing to land a spot on the sitcom.

It’s a fascinating sliding-doors exercise — what if Odenkirk had been Michael Scott? — but The Office isn’t the only show for which famous comedy actors auditioned without success. Here are five more examples of TV stars who were in the wrong place at the wrong time…

1 Tiffani Thiessen, ‘Friends’

Kelly Kapowski could have been Rachel Green. “Did you know I tested for Friends, for Jennifer Aniston?” Thiessen said on SiriusXM's You Up With Nikki Glaser, per Entertainment Weekly. “I was just a little too young. I was a little too young to the pairing of the rest of them.”

Indeed, Saved By the Bell’s...

For nine seasons, "Seinfeld" was one of the most consistently hilarious sitcoms to ever air on network television. The show about nothing bucked conventional wisdom pertaining to what a sitcom should be (which puzzled some NBC executives), but gradually won over television viewers with its peppily acerbic tone and god-tier ensemble of Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards. And the fact that its humor could get pitch dark never seemed to bother enough viewers to cause a ratings dip. Though more than a few fans of the show gasped when George's finacée Susan died from licking cheap envelopes at the end of the seventh season, they got over their shock and returned in the fall.

The show struck its share of nerves besides Susan's shocking demise. The "Puerto Rican Day" episode, which featured Kramer accidentally setting fire to a Puerto Rico flag and stomping on it to put out the blaze,...

Seinfeld wasn’t exactly known for its big twists or dramatic reveals. Like, there was never an episode in which Elaine confesses that she has a secret opium addiction but used her love of poppy-seed muffins to cover it up.

That being said, this week marks the 30th anniversary of one of the show’s only true bombshells: the disclosure of Kramer’s first name.

Season Six’s “The Switch” aired on January 5, 1995. In addition to Elaine’s quest to reclaim Mr. Pitt’s tennis racket, and Jerry’s attempt to hook up with his girlfriend’s roommate, the episode featured one of George’s most repugnant storylines. In an effort to discover whether or not his model girlfriend is bulimic (out of “concern” that he’s wasting money on expensive meals), George enlists the help of Kramer’s estranged mother, who happens to be a restroom attendant. But when...

At the beginning of the "Seinfeld" episode "The Parking Garage", Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Kramer (Michael Richards), Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), and George (Jason Alexander) have just completed a trip to a shopping mall in New Jersey. Elaine has purchased a few pet goldfish and carries them in a plastic baggie. More inconveniently, Kramer has just purchased an outside, window-mounted air conditioning unit, which he insists on awkwardly carrying back to the car in spite of its heaviness.

The main issue of the episode: no one can remember where they parked. The bulk of this misadventure takes place in the parking garage as the quartet becomes increasingly frustrated with their plight. Jerry has to pee, and doesn't want to walk all the way back to the mall to find a bathroom, leading to an awkward situation when he tries to whizz in a corner. The same then happens to George. Both are caught by a security guard.

While Seinfeld is a self-proclaimed show about nothing, they seemed to have outdone themselves in the department of confusion with Season 8 Episode 20 of the show, The Millennium. Consider it so confusing on the scale of 1 to 10, that it required a rewatch just for the sake of writing this article.

A still from the 1989 sitcom Seinfeld | image: NBC

Believe it or not, you won’t be blamed if your minds have just magically shut out this particular episode. But meanwhile, considering that The Millennium is technically Seinfeld’s only official New Year’s episode, it won’t hurt to take a look at it. So let’s dive right into it and figure out what was so confusing about this particular installment.

Why was The Millennium so confusing for fans?

While you might know Seinfeld’s Season 8 Episode 20 by the title, The Millennium, we know it by the name “confusion”. Being...

It's been more than 25 years since the "Seinfeld" finale aired, yet the episode itself remains just as controversial as when it premiered as a one-hour special in 1998. Written by co-creator Larry David, who left "Seinfeld" at the show's creative peak in season 7, the finale takes an unexpected turn by putting the show's gang on trial for violating a Good Samaritan Law after they taunt and film a carjacking victim instead of helping him. Upon sitting down in the courtroom, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards) are forced to listen as a string of beloved supporting players -- including the Soup Nazi, Bubble Boy, and the woman Kramer gave a faulty wheelchair to -- parade in to air their grievances about the self-absorbed individuals on the witness stand.

The ending divided critics, audiences, and even those involved with the show. Entertainment Weekly called the episode "off-key and bloated,...

In the "Seinfeld" episode "The Jacket", Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and George (Jason Alexander) arrange to have dinner with Alton Benes (Lawrence Tierney), the father of Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Because of a drama involving towed cars, Elaine is running late to the dinner, and Jerry and George spend a long, painful time trying to converse with Alton, a gruff, grumpy character. Alton is a famous author, and Jerry assumes he'll be talkative and gregarious, but he is quite the opposite; he is annoyed by his companions' whiny behavior and delicate sensibilities and wears a permanent, disapproving frown. When Jerry refuses to go for a walk in the snow — to save his new suede jacket from water damage — Alton insists. Like with many "Seinfeld" episodes, everyone is uncomfortable by the end.

Lawrence Tierney gave an excellent performance, and the cast was elated to be working with him. Tierney had been acting professionally since the 1940s,...

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Seinfeld is not only one of the greatest TV shows of all time (#6, if you ask us), but it’s also one of the most quotable — the kind of media in the rarefied air of people quoting it without even realizing it. Seinfeld’s iconic catchphrases and lines also make it endlessly rewatchable, but it has never been released on Blu-Ray in the 26 years since the show went off the air.

"Seinfeld" is a show where virtually every major character is outlandish and morally compromised yet rendered likable by the sheer power of writing and performances. As such, a character who's specifically designed to act as the fictionalized Jerry Seinfeld's nemesis has to fit the show's general aura of chaotic ineptitude while still retaining an ability to antagonize. Wayne Knight's Newman is perfect for this role. A scheming, theatrical postal worker who lives in the same building as Jerry and Kramer (Michael Richards), Newman is eccentric and unlikeable but not entirely villainous. He's a peculiar antagonist in that he manages to get along with the majority of the show's characters who aren't named Jerry, and the only real reason for Jerry to hate Newman is that the show's creators considered it a fun plot device.

Knight played Newman in 44 episodes after debuting in season 3 of "Seinfeld," shaping him into one...

41 years ago, HBO, then the most subscribed-to pay cable network in the United States, decided to expand its original programming (which consisted largely of stand-up comedy specials and boxing) with the uplifting, based-on-real-life film "The Terry Fox Story." Though it didn't set the world on fire, the movie did receive decent reviews, which gave competing premium cable channels the itch to try their hand at making movies of their own.

And so, in 1984, Showtime took a crack at film production with a zany comedy called "The Ratings Game." While this film was notable at the time for being the channel's first original movie, it's now most significant for being Danny DeVito's directorial debut. If this is the first you're hearing of "The Ratings Game," there's a good reason for that. It's a sporadically funny film based around a dated Nielsen ratings scam that's basically Mel Brooks' "The Producers" for television.

Seinfeld co-creator Larry David reprises his most iconic role from the hit sitcom in a new video. Throughout the show's 1989-1998 run on NBC, David made several cameos as different characters, a fitting way to honor him as the co-creator and showrunner of the series. However, his most well-known character was former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who was George Costanza's boss for several seasons.

In a new video from Topps, former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway reminisces about being drafted by the Yankees in 1981. Elway credits Steinbrenner for his draft. The video then shows the Seinfeld version of Steinbrenner in his office, which looks just like the one he had in the sitcom, along with his other employees. The camera also only shows the back of Steinbrenner, just like it did in the series. Even though the employees are trying to convince him to choose Tony Gwynn for the draft,...

When it comes to recalling the shenanigans from Seinfeld, who can forget Michael Richards’ portrayal of Cosmo Kramer? With his eccentric antics and impeccable physical comedy, Kramer was thus hailed as one of the most iconic characters in the show. Therefore, while Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were the masterminds behind the show, it was Richards’ chaotic performance that led audiences to come back for more.

Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld | image: NBC

But here’s the fun part—Michael Richards’ offbeat, slapstick genius earned him more than just laughs. Upon breaking down the earnings from the 180 episodes of Seinfeld, the lovable weirdo appeared to rake in some jaw-dropping numbers for his role in the ’90s sitcom. Eventually, that salary led the actor’s net worth to propel and stand at a staggering $30M as of 2024.

How Much Did Michael Richards Earn from Seinfeld?

Remember Michael Richards’ Cosmo...

"The Chinese Restaurant" was the 16th episode of "Seinfeld" but for many fans, it was the first episode where "Seinfeld" became the show they loved. The episode follows Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) as they duck into a Chinese restaurant to get some dinner before a movie. Then they wind up being forced to wait longer than the promised five to 10 minutes, even as other people who arrived later are seated. So, after 20-ish minutes, they leave — right as a table opens up.

The episode was inspired by a long wait that Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David had at a real Chinese restaurant. "I thought this could be a pretty funny idea, waiting in real-time. You get 23 minutes to do the show; let's just have them wait 23 minutes for a table," as David once explained.

Indeed, "The Chinese Restaurant" is about the feeling of waiting,...

"Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator Larry David has been upfront about how much of his writing is inspired by his life. For instance, when he was working at "Saturday Night Live," David once angrily quit the show, only to show up the next day and keep working as if nothing happened. George Costanza (Jason Alexander), who was Larry's stand-in character on "Seinfeld," did the same thing years later.

When it came to inventing Kramer (Michael Richards), Jerry's zany, intrusive next-door neighbor, Larry once again turned to real life for inspiration. "The character of Kramer was based on my real next-door neighbor, Kenny Kramer," David once explained in a featurette about the making of the series. "My neighbor was a guy who would come in, take a lot of my food, and he was a guy who didn't work, really, or if he did nobody really knew what he did.

You’d be forgiven if you forgot that Elaine had a roommate on Seinfeld. Despite the fact that Elaine lived with Tina for at least the first third of Seinfeld’s nine seasons — when Tina moved out is unclear — she only ever appeared three times on the show.

The first time was during the formative episode “The Deal,” where Jerry and Elaine try to work out a “friends with benefits” arrangement only to have a slew of things, including Tina, get in the way. The second was when Tina dated Kramer for an episode, driving Elaine crazy. And lastly, Tina appeared in Season Five, where it’s established that she moved out some time ago.

Despite Tina being criminally underused on Seinfeld, every time she showed up, she stole the scene, which is a credit to the actress who portrayed her: Siobhan Fallon Hogan, who also had a stint on...

The year was 1996, and NBC's "Seinfeld" was firing on all cylinders. The "show about nothing" had won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, Kramer actor Michael Richards had won two Supporting Actor in a Comedy Emmys, Julia Louis-Dreyfus was fresh off her win for Supporting Actress, and co-creator Larry David had already won his Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Comedy Series for season 4's "The Contest," where he was willing to put his job on the line to make sure the episode got made.

But it was at this point, after the seventh season had aired, when Larry David walked away from his creation. Well, that's not entirely true -- he stuck around as an actor to continue to do the occasional cameo as Yankees head honcho George Steinbrenner -- but it is true that David stopped writing and showrunning "Seinfeld" right around the time it reached its creative peak.

Contrary to Frank Costanza’s insistence, “serenity now!” can only do so much when it comes to keeping calm. Just ask Seinfeld stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander, who can be seen breaking mid-scene in a newly-resurfaced moment from the iconic ‘90s sitcom.

Earlier this week, Redditor ExtraGlutenPlzz headed to the Seinfeld subreddit with an observation for fellow fans on Season Nine’s “The Merv Griffin Show”: What’s the deal with Michael Richards’ chip-and-burp combo making two of his fellow castmates visibly lose their shit?

“Julia has said that when Michael Richards takes a break to eat a chip on the Merv Griffin show, she couldn’t stop laughing. She can be seen here for a microsecond laughing,” they captioned a screengrab taken about nine minutes into the episode.

Snapped moments after Kramer grilled George on pigeons, called a fake “commercial break,” shoved a few chips into his mouth,...

The renowned Blue Jacket Fashion Show will continue to elevate prostate cancer awareness by hosting its first-ever Los Angeles (LA) Fashion Week event.

Founded by fashion designer Frederick Anderson, the Blue Jacket Fashion Show has hosted eight annual fashion shows in New York City. This year will mark the first West Coast show, kicking off LA Fashion Week at 6 pm, Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, at W Hollywood.

Inaugural LA Runway Event to Feature Appearances by Rodney Peete & Holly Robinson-Peete, Omar Sharif Jr., Carl Clemons, Eric West, Harold Perrineau, Michael Richards, John Hill, Joey Zauzig, Eric Stanton Betts, Young Paris, Paul Telfer, Robert Scott Wilson, Marshall Glaze, Marc Malkin, Kinyumbia Mutakibbir and Fashion designer &Founder Frederick Anderson, and many more.

Dressed by top designers, including,

NN07, Arjano Collection, Bonnie Young, Bugatchi, Elle Balleh, Epperson, Magpies & Peacocks, Paisley & Gray, Perry Ellis, Potro, Ruben & Chapelle, The Salting, Stephen-f, Terry Singh and Urban Zen

Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson,...

Calling "Seinfeld" a success story is understating it. But Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza on the show in every episode except one, thinks the series' success might've had bad consequences for the TV industry as a whole. In a Charlie Rose interview from 1998 (the same year "Seinfeld" concluded), Alexander walked through the story of how he, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine), and Michael Richards (Kramer) fought for a raise about halfway through the show's run.

Alexander explained how, around season 5 of "Seinfeld," he, Louis-Dreyfus, and Richards felt "there was no upside" in staying on the show anymore. The success of "Seinfeld" could even be a double-edged sword since they'd be typecast as actors going forward. His fears ended up being founded; of the three, only Louis-Dreyfus has become more than her "Seinfeld" character to the larger public.

Initially, the three actors tried to get in on the show's syndication success. Syndication,...

The messy truth behind Seinfeld royalties left many cast members feeling less wealthy than they could have been. Despite the show’s iconic status and massive success, the financial fallout revealed a complicated landscape of contracts and negotiations. While Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David reaped the rewards of their creative genius, other key players faced financial struggles that highlighted the disparities in Hollywood.

Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Seinfeld | Credits: NBC

As they navigated the complex world of residuals and licensing deals, it became clear that the legendary sitcom’s legacy wasn’t as lucrative for everyone involved. This behind-the-scenes drama exposed the harsh realities of the entertainment industry, leaving fans questioning the true cost of fame and fortune.

Behind the Scenes of Seinfeld: When Success Didn’t Equal Equal Pay Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld | Credits: NBC

Despite being one of the most beloved sitcoms ever, Seinfeld harbored...

Seinfeld witnessed some of its funniest moments when the parents of our iconic leads graced selected episodes. The NBC show often featured the parents as supporting characters. Surprisingly, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character Elaine Benes’ parents could never be a prominent part of the show.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld | Credits: Castle Rock Entertainment

Although Elaine Benes’ mother was never shown in the NBC sitcom, her father Alton Benes was set to be a recurring character after his introduction in Season 2 Episode 3. It was a controversial on-set incident by the late actor Lawrence Tierney that forced Alton Benes to never get another appearance.

Seinfeld, often hailed as one of the greatest sitcoms ever, provided immense laughs to the audiences. But hardly anyone expected Tierney to create a scary environment on set.

Lawrence Tierney’s problematic humor made the Seinfeld cast uncomfortable Lawrence Tierney as Alton Benes in Seinfeld | Credits: Castle...

For a show with 180 episodes, "Seinfeld" has oddly few stinkers. Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's magnum opus took the TV landscape by storm throughout the '90s, but the show still remains fresh –- and funnier than almost anything else on television, before or since. Across its nine seasons, "Seinfeld" honed and then perfected its distinctive style of comedy, bringing viewers increasingly labyrinthine and rewarding standalone stories of misunderstandings, faux pas, and assorted disasters –- all memorably set in the creators' unpredictable vision of New York City.

For all its greatness, though, "Seinfeld" has a few low points, and I don't just mean the clip shows. Its first season doesn't start off particularly strong, though its early episodes build a solid platform onto which later, more intricate comedic plots can expand. Likewise, season 4 spends long stretches of time focused on George (Jason Alexander) and Jerry's (Seinfeld) attempt to write a TV show,...

Larry David could have had a bright future as an action-comedy hero if a certain Saturday Night Live clone had survived long enough to make its own sketch-to-movie adaptations — after all, Enter The Matzoi: The Movie couldn’t have done that much worse at the box office than MacGruber.

The legendary Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator’s brief career in sketch comedy is best remembered for his Saturday Night Live era, during which David quit the show in a fit of rage halfway through his first and only season before returning to work the next day as if nothing had happened. David’s SNL antics formed the basis of one of the most iconic Seinfeld episodes ever with “The Revenge,” but it wasn’t David’s first memorable and slightly disastrous brush with televised sketch comedy. In his first-ever TV comedy job, David served as a staff writer and...

Directed by Ryan Ashley Lowery, Light Up is centered around five prolific figures of the Black queer community: Dunlap Simone, Derek Johnson, Benjamin Carlton, Obio Jones, and Octavius Terry. Over the course of the documentary Lowery, along with other interviewers, get into the nitty-gritty of the lives of the film’s subjects, how they learned that they were queer, the kind of push back they faced from society, and what did it take for them to overcome the hurdles placed in front of them and make a name for themselves in a profession of their choosing. Lowery sat down for a virtual chat with me to talk about the experience of making Light Up, what it was like to interview Simone, Johnson, Carlton, Jones, and Terry, representation of Black queer people in the world of entertainment, and more.

How did you come up with the idea of making Light Up?...

It's often said that if life is a joke, then death is the punch line, and plenty of great sitcoms have found hilarious ways to kill off their characters over the years. Dark humor allows us to laugh at taboo subjects which people don't like to speak about, and death is at the top of this list. Comedy has always had a perverse fascination with death, and there are many classic sitcoms which utilize this.

Dark sitcoms often kill off minor characters in ludicrous ways to highlight the absurdity of the form and the fragile, fleeting nature of life. These jokes provide an immediate shock and a cathartic release, but they also reveal something deeper about human nature. Some sitcoms even have funny deaths for some of their main characters, which undercuts the serious tone that TV shows usually have for such situations. The cause of death, the timing, and...

Michael Richards did a lot of justice to the character of Kramer on Seinfeld, a hit sitcom that came out in 1989. The 75-year-old actor and former stand-up comedian was partially responsible for the show’s success, as Kramer’s persona was loud and quite impactful.

Michael Richards as Kramer on Seinfeld | Credits: Caste Rock Entertainment/Netflix

Seinfeld lasted for nearly a decade before airing its final season in 1998. Richards also got a couple of projects to work on before appearing in his final (or latest) film Faith, Hope & Love in 2019. Sometimes, actors tend to become the characters they portray on screen, and for Richards, Kramer became a slight annoyance.

Michael Richard got so used to being Kramer that it made him awkward in real life

While verbal comedy is something that most comedians succeed in, physical comedy was one area in which Michael Richards thrived. This was something he...

If all TV production stopped today and no new TV shows were ever created, then every TV lover in the world were asked to name the greatest show in the history of television, there's a damn decent chance that "Seinfeld" would come out on top. Rewatchable, hilarious, and totally singular, it remains a miracle more than 25 years after it went off the air. So much of that is attributed to the core ensemble cast made up of Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine), Jason Alexander (George), and Michael Richards (Kramer). For nearly all of the show's 180 episodes, this group anchored the classic sitcom. We say almost because there was one episode that Alexander sat out.

Like many great shows, "Seinfeld" took a couple of seasons to find its footing. By season 3, though, it was fully off to the races. That season contains several classic episodes, including the third episode, the 20th of the show overall,...

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Frasier is one of the best classic multi-cam sitcoms with one of the best cast of characters. Based on the character from the hit series Cheers, Frasier follows Dr. Frasier Crane as he moves to Seattle to reset his life after finalizing his divorce. Dr. Crane thinks that he is getting a new life but his plans are interrupted when his father moves in with him. The comedy of the series came from the highly dysfunctional relationship between Frasier and his father Niles Crane. Frasier provided laughter to its audience for 11 eleven brilliant seasons and ended its run in 2004. Eighteen years later we go a great revival and new life for Frasier Crane on Paramount+ with him living with his son. So, if you loved the cringe comedy and compelling characters in the original and the new revival...

It’s almost mind-boggling to know just how many well-known actors today auditioned for roles in our favorite sitcoms from back in the day. It’s hard to picture anyone other than the actors who eventually landed the parts, but it’s really fascinating to see how things turned out for everyone.

Larry Hankin in Friends Credits: NBC

For instance, Larry Hankin who people know from Friends auditioned for the role of Kramer on Seinfeld alongside Michael Richards. It’s intriguing to think about how different the show might have been with Hankin in that role. Hankin also once opened up about his reaction when he learned his character was being killed off of Friends.

Friends‘ Mr. Heckles Was Eyeing Kramer on Seinfeld Before Landing His Iconic Role!

Larry Hankin auditioned for the role of Kramer on Seinfeld alongside Michael Richards but ended up losing out. Instead, he found his...

When it comes to the greatest endings that do its respective show justice, Breaking Bad‘s Felina is often the first one to cross fans’ minds, and for good reason. But similar wasn’t the case with Jerry Seinfeld’s Seinfeld, which is notable for its polarizing finale that wasn’t received well among its viewers when it first aired.

Jerry Seinfeld | Credit: Seinfeld/NBC

Similar to AMC’s Breaking Bad, Jon Hamm’s Mad Men was successful in giving fans a satisfying conclusion, and the Unfrosted star too holds it in very high regard.

Mad Men’s Finale Is Jerry Seinfeld’s Pick for the Greatest Finale Ever Person to Person | Credit: Mad Men/AMC

While the general consensus towards Seinfeld‘s finale has wormed up over the years, when it originally aired, the episode left a sour taste in fans’ mouths, as the main cast ended up in jail in the finale.

One of NBC’s most successful sitcoms, Seinfeld, featured multiple actors at their comedic genius. Among the many recurring characters, actor Bryan Cranston shone the brightest with his hilarious dialogue and performance. He played the role of Tim Whatley, Jerry and Kramer’s offbeat dentist.

Remembered as one of the best guest roles of the show, he appeared in five episodes but completely stole the spotlight as soon as he showed up on screen. Recalling his short stint in the popular series, Cranston mentioned his biggest achievement was making Jerry Seinfeld laugh. The Breaking Bad actor was so good at comic timing that he had Seinfeld enamored.

A recurring role with a lasting impact: Bryan Cranston

Seinfeld was a career-defining sitcom for multiple actors and a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s. For Bryan Cranston, the show held a significant spot; though he appeared for only a handful of episodes, the impact cannot be denied.