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...show, has maintained over its nine seasons. Consequently, Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug even though it is currently the nation's top-rated sitcom, even though it is as popular and lucrative as ever, even though the audience has not yet tired of the self-absorbed lives of Jerry, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards). This, of course, is not the way successful television shows are supposed...
...success ("My real talent," he says, "is in picking people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes out of it. That's classic. It's burlesque." One quickly learns that Seinfeld, like most comedians, can talk about comedy endlessly and with great...
...small production company, more about which he won't reveal. Beyond that, the tour and the HBO show, his post-Seinfeld plans are vague. He variously claims that he'd like to do a movie someday; that he'd be open to returning to television, not in another sitcom but maybe a talk show; that he plans to pretty much take the next couple years off and just recuperate from the rigors of producing, writing and starring in Seinfeld...
...CHINESE RESTAURANT Aired 5/23/91. The anti-sitcom: no contrived plots, in fact no plots at all: these people can be funny just waiting to be seated...
...Everybody Loves Raymond In its second season, this CBS sitcom is coming into its own. The star, Ray Romano, is an amusing, hangdog Everyman, and his relatives are funny oddballs rather than the more typical tiresome ones. Family shows have been done over and over, but Raymond can surprise...