Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld was born in 1954 in Brooklyn, NY as Jerome Allen Seinfeld. With his wife Jessica they have 3 children. Jerry Seinfeld was ranked #12 in Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He grew up in Brooklyn, where he met Larry David, co-creator of the TV show and the basis of George. He went to school in New York, and decided to enter comedy right after college. he started work with an appearence on TV Benton, playing a recurring character of a mailman. He was abruptly cut from the staff without notice. he also was featured on several Rodney Dangerfield specials, and about this time he became a more and more popular guest on tv show like the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and the Late Show with David Letterman.
Eventually he and Larry David pitched the idea of Seinfeld to NBC.
The Seinfeld TV Show
Originally titled “The Chronicles of Seinfeld,” Seinfeld ranks among the most successful TV programs of all time. By its fourth season, Seinfeld had become the most popular and successful sitcom on American television. Set in New York city, Seinfeld was a semi-adaptation of Jerry’s real life. With actors Jason Alexander and Michael Richard and actress Julia-Louis Dreyfus standing in for his real life friends, the foursome was able to capture the hearts of millions across the country. The Seinfeld finale was such a hti that water companies around the country reported usage surges during the commercials. The event was perhaps the most anticipated tv event of the decade, and drew ratings that rival the SuperBowl.
The Seinfeld TV show was able to reach so many people because of its new look at comedy. The show was literally about nothing. Instead of a cohesive plot with a beginning, middle and end, Seinfeld episodes followed Jerry and the rest of the gang in their day to day lives. What was so spectacular about the show was the way writers were able to make divergent storylines converge at the end of the show. Just about each show culminated at least one, sometimes many, of the running storylines of the show coming together, just about always in hilarious and unexpected ways. Jerry Seinfeld has credited co-creator Larry David (the star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and the prototype for George), for these great plot twists. The shows almost resembled a talented comedian who comes back to his big joke at the end of the set and end on a high note.
In all of comedy, few shows could hope to achieve what Seinfeld was able to. It was popular with people of all ages and backgrounds. It launched a new wave of comedies that relied less on plot and more and character and funniness. The show is just as profitable now than during its height of popularity while it was still on the air. If you enjoy laughing, you can bet that getting Jerry Seinfeld tickets will help you enjoy the night. The show was great, but seeing the master live in hi domain, well there’s nothing better than that.