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  CNN - Seinfeld: The Seinfeld Chronicles - 1998
CNN - Seinfeld: The Seinfeld Chronicles - 1998
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who crafted a television show that became a cultural signpost for the 1990s, is calling it quits.
Jerry Seinfeld's departure at the end of this television season is a big loss for millions of his fans.
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  Jerry Seinfeld - Biography - AOL Music
The most successful and influential comedian of his generation, Jerry Seinfeld's brilliant observational riffs on the minutiae of everyday life formed the basis of the television classic Seinfeld, the quintessential sitcom of the 1990s and one of the most beloved series in the history of the medium.
In 1980, Seinfeld was cast in the sitcom Benson, but was fired after just a few episodes; he returned to stand-up with a vengeance, and a year later made his first appearance on The Tonight Show, winning over host Johnny Carson.
Premiering in 1991 under the name The Seinfeld Chronicles, the show was an immediate critical hit but fared poorly in the ratings; known as simply Seinfeld from its second episode onward, the series gradually gained momentum, and NBC agreed to an order of six more episodes, followed in its third year by 13 more.
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 Everything you wanted to know about 'Seinfeld'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade.
Originally called "The Seinfeld Chronicles", the initial plot of the series was to tell how a comedian got his material, hence, the insertion of clips of Jerry Seinfeld's routine.
Another attribute that makes Seinfeld exceptional is that in almost every episode, several story threads are presented at the beginning, generally involving the various characters in separate and unrelated situations, which then converge and are interwoven towards the end of the episode in an ironic fashion.
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 Seinfeld Says It's All Over, And It's No Joke for NBC
The loss of ''Seinfeld,'' which made the country laugh at the soup Nazi, close-talkers, chip double-dippers and loaves of marble rye, is a serious blow to NBC, which has already seen its prime-time strength begin to weaken this season.
Seinfeld to stay, it offered him what one executive said was the most lucrative deal ever extended to a television star.
Seinfeld, the rest of the show's ensemble -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine), Jason Alexander (George) and Michael Richards (Kramer) -- had already agreed to terms for another season after some acrimonious discussions last spring led to a settlement that is paying them each a record $600,000 for each episode this season.
www.nytimes.com /specials/seinfeld/sein1226a.html   (1302 words)

  
 Jerry Seinfeld: Book Jerry Seinfeld for corporate event - Celebrity Direct Inc.
Seinfeld had a small recurring role as "Frankie" on the Benson sitcom in 1979, but was abruptly fired from the show.
The show was later renamed simply Seinfeld and became one of the most popular and successful sitcoms on American television.
The process of developing new material was chronicled in a 2002 documentary, Comedian, directed by Christian Charles.
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 tvdvdreviews.com -- Seinfeld: Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review
The standup-to-sitcom ratio is also a bit skewed in the pilot - there is an overabundance of standup material, and not all of it is related to the episode's plotline (which involves a woman Jerry met on an out-of-town gig who asks if she can stay in his apartment while visiting New York).
On disc one, "The Seinfeld Chronicles (Pilot)" is presented in its original version (with the Casio keyboard music) and its revised version (with the familiar Seinfeld music).
It is incredible to watch Seinfeld develop from a funny guy who cannot quite command the audience to a self-assured professional who has the audience - and Carson - in stitches.
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Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld was born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Kalman and Betty.
Seinfeld returned the the comedy club circuit once again, and after years of hard work, he made his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981.
Jerry Seinfeld earned an estimated $267 million in 1998, and was dubbed the highest paid actor at $1 million per episode.
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 Jerry Seinfeld
Seinfeld was eight years old, watching TV with his parents, when he figured out that comedy could be a profession.
Seinfeld and David later said this wasn't really the show's concept, it was just the concept they thought NBC would buy.
Seinfeld played a fictionalized version of himself, with Michael Richards as oddball neighbor Cosmo Kramer, Jason Alexander as loser George Costanza, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes.
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 A Single Comedian Is Returning to His Roots
Seinfeld, who views his brand of comedy as ''observational humor with a personal twist,'' writes all of his own material and believes that expressing his own ideas is very important.
Seinfeld's stand-up act is devoid of insulting barbs, props, screeching and profanity.
Seinfeld hopes that ''Chronicles,'' a show about single life, combining situation comedy and stand-up bits, will be picked up next season.
www.nytimes.com /specials/seinfeld/sein89.html   (736 words)

  
 Seinfeld: Seinfeld Chronicles
When "The Seinfeld Chronicles" (the original title) first aired as a limited series no one suspected it would be the next big thing.
Seinfeld and his collaborator/co-creator/co-producer and frequent co-writer Larry David pushed TV comedy to its boundaries and then demolished them.
The name of the show was later changed to Seinfeld and other changes were made as the first effort was not doing too well in the ratings.
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Seinfeld perfected the art of the unhappy but funny ending; the characters laughed at, more than with, one another.
Former Seinfeld co-stars Jason Alexander and Michael Richards have each bombed in their respective sitcoms, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus has a new show in the works for NBC.
The break-ups in Seinfeld are always inevitable and always occasioned by something utterly trivial: a woman who eats peas one at a time or a man who fails to write an exclamation point at the end of a phone message containing exciting news.
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 The yada, yada, yada of 'Seinfeld' (the TV series) - Roanoke.com
"Seinfeld," one of the most influential and popular shows of the 1990s, aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998.
"Seinfeld" was the No. 1 most-watched show of its final season, a title matched by "I Love Lucy" (in 1957) and regional favorite "The Andy Griffith Show" (in 1968).
On May 15, 2006, Louis-Dreyfus, who played Elaine Benes, reunited with her "Seinfeld" co-stars on "Saturday Night Live" in a skit about the dreaded "Seinfeld curse," a phrase used to describe the hard TV times the cast members have had developing new hit shows.
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 Seinfeld - Zap2it - TV Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Many have said that "Seinfeld" was the best sitcom of all time; the show won many Emmys for Best Writing.
In typical "Seinfeld" fashion, the final episode in May 1998 found the wacky foursome in jail for a bizarre "good samaritan" law they broke in a small Massachusetts town; jailed for, literally, doing nothing.
Created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the pilot was called "The Seinfeld Chronicles" and aired on July 5, 1989.
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 Jerry Seinfeld Tickets - Jerry Seinfeld Concert Tour Schedule Show Tickets Broker
Seinfeld had a small recurring role as "Frankie" on the Benson sitcom in 1979, but was abruptly fired from the show.
The process of developing new material was chronicled in a 2002 documentary, Comedian, directed by Christian Charles.
The most successful and influential comedian of his generation, Jerry Seinfeld's brilliant observational riffs on the minutiae of everyday life formed the basis of the television classic Seinfeld, the quintessential sitcom of the 1990s and one of the most beloved series in the history of the medium.
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 Jerry Seinfeld
Jerome “Jerry” Seinfeld was born on April 29, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York.
The show was later renamed Seinfeld and, by its fourth season, became the most popular and successful sitcom on American television.
Seinfeld is also a bestselling author, most notably for his book Seinlanguage, released in 1993.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Jerry_Seinfeld.html   (244 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Seinfeld: Season Three
Seinfeld was so different from other sitcoms, both in its humor and its production, that they were essentially isolated in a world of their own.
If the first two seasons of Seinfeld were the birth pangs of a show trying to force its way into the world, this third season was its adolescence and young adulthood—a time when the show discovered what it was, and what it could be.
Seinfeld's jokes weren't gags; they were observations that highlighted the humor in everyday situations—anything from airline food to supermarket checkout stands.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/seinfeldseason3.php   (3797 words)

  
 Salon Entertainment | Joyce Millman On Television: Cheerio, "Seinfeld"
My review of the July 1989 pilot episode (which NBC was then calling "The Seinfeld Chronicles") was lukewarm: The shift from Seinfeld's comedy club scenes to the sitcom plot was shaky and too cute, George was just another whining Woody Allen knock-off, Kramer was vaguely unpleasant, yada, yada, yada.
I was awed by Seinfeld and co-creator/writer Larry David's brilliant grasp of, A) working-class Jewish craziness, and, B) the absurd humor of the deeply mundane.
The intricately plotted comeuppances that Seinfeld, David and their roster of uncommonly clever writers devised for this foursome were the comedic equivalent of biblical judgment.
www.salon.com /ent/tv/mill/1998/05/cov_04mill.html   (856 words)

  
 Give thanks for 'The 'Seinfeld' Story'
When Seinfeld and David first met with NBC to pitch their idea for a show, well, they basically lied.
Or to put it another way, "Seinfeld" was all about "nonsense and idiotic conversations," says the clever man with his name in the title.
"Seinfeld" has already achieved true classic status, destined to be in reruns forever, where you can still catch all the funny memories you need in the context of complete episodes.
www.azcentral.com /ent/tv/articles/1125seinfeld.html   (830 words)

  
 Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn on 29 April, 1954, the son of Kalman and Betty Seinfeld.
It was the precursor of the phenomenon, Seinfeld that was to dominate USA ratings for the next decade.
Reportedly NBC offered Jerry Seinfeld $5m per episode for him to reverse his decision to finish the series at the end of its eight year run in May 1998.
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 Seinfeld, seinfeld, SEINFELD !
Seinfeld was one of the big surprises of the 1990's.
It is difficult to say what makes Seinfeld leap into the same league as Fawlty Towers or The Simpsons, (They could never be compared, but they are in the same league.) It's not the brilliantly defined characters that each and every episode contains, because many lesser sitcoms have had that.
I must raise my hat to the cast and crew of the show for producing a live action show that is as good as, if not better then anything us British have produced in the 90's.
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 Seinfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seinfeld is an American television situation comedy set in New York City that ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998 running a total of nine seasons.
Seinfeld was unique in that it violated several conventions of mainstream television.
Gantz maintains that another factor in, or further proof of, spectators' and characters' participation in a larger Seinfeld community is the large amount of in-slang, "a lexicon of Seinfeldian code words and recurring phrases that go unnoticed by the infrequent or 'unknowing' viewer".
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 EW ONLINE - The Seinfeld Chronicles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NBC originally passed on Seinfeld after test audiences deemed the 1989 pilot episode "weak." It only lives thanks to Rick Ludwin, NBC senior VP of specials and late night, whose faith was so strong he gave of his own budget to create four more episodes, which aired in the summer of '90.
By January 1991, Seinfeld was a mid-season replacement, inaugurating an uninterrupted six-year run that culminated in its current Must See Thursday slot.
Seinfeld concurs: "He knows what he wants and goes after it.
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 USATODAY.com - It's the autumn of 'Seinfeld'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The notorious "puffy shirt" — from the episode in which Jerry Seinfeld bristles at being mistaken for a pirate — was presented to the Smithsonian last week.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president Benjamin Feingold says Seinfeld is the first TV DVD release to get a full-fledged "event marketing" campaign behind it, on the same scale as the studio is giving its other marquee fourth-quarter title, Spider-Man 2, one of the year's biggest movies, out Nov. 30.
Howard West and George Shapiro, executive producers of Seinfeld and Jerry Seinfeld's longtime managers, are showbiz legends.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-11-22-seinfeld-dvd_x.htm   (894 words)

  
 Jerry Seinfeld!
Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor, and writer from Massapequa, New York, a hamlet on Long Island.
Seinfeld's decision to end one of television's most popular programs sparked a significant public reaction.After his sitcom went off the air, Seinfeld returned to stand-up comedy.
Seinfeld also appeared in three commercial 'webisodes' [1] promoting American Express Credit Cards in which he appeared together with an animated rendering of Superman (who was referenced in numerous episodes of Seinfeld as Jerry's hero), voiced by Patrick Warburton (who had portrayed David Puddy on Seinfeld).
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 Amazon.com: Seinfeld - Seasons 1 & 2: DVD: Tom Cherones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Seinfeld's and David's mantra "learn nothing and be about nothing" proved that TV touching on the absurdity of real life could be funnier than TV where the characters learned valuable lessons and became better people.
Seinfeld grew to be one of the best comedy shows on TV, but it isn't hard to understand why it originally struggled.
Eventually the name was shorten to simply SEINFELD and thus began one of the funniest and most inventive comedies of the last quarter of the twentieth-century.
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 Jerry Seinfeld Tickets - Jerry Seinfeld Tour Schedule - Online Ticket Broker
Jerry Seinfeld is a famous comic and writer from New York, who is well-known for his NBC sitcom Seinfeld (originally the Seinfeld Chronicles), which was broadcasted from 1989 to 1998 and had great success.
Jerry Seinfeld continued his career as a stand-up comedian and in no time was included in the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.
Seinfeld is regarded as the author of such books as Letters From a Nut, which are written by Ted L. Nancy, and Stories From a Moron – by Ed Broth.
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 Unofficial Seinfeld Encyclopedia - CLOSE THIS WINDOW TO GO BACK
Seinfeld to Newman in 5:19 The Raincoats Part 2.
She has appeared in such diverse roles in Seinfeld such as Waitress and no one could forget her terrific role of Waitress #1.
Although she enjoys Seinfeld, she does not enjoy it to the extent that we men do, so she doesn't include herself in the Siyums and does not add anything to this site.
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