Jerry Seinfeld Reveals Nobody Wanted ‘Seinfeld’…Not Even HIM!!! | The Rich Eisen Show

[@franjovideos]

This is one of the best Seinfeld interviews I've heard in a while

[@nmc5858]

I could listen to Jerry all day and love when he talks about Seinfeld episodes🙂

[@johns7530]

The scene where Kramer enters Jerry's apartment and sees Keith, and then does this spin move... may be my favorite tv moment of all time. You can find if you look up "nice game pretty boy". Priceless! 🤣

[@wrenside]

Rich having done the stand up thing added a whole new dimension to the interview. great stuff !!

[@MikeJamesHayden]

The whole show was a perfect storm. Everything worked perfectly. What I like best about it was there was no couch at the end or hugging. Just 100% funny.

[@DavidBagga_Shorts]

“That’s GOLD Jerry, GOLD!” - Kenny Bania

[@r3tr0actiongamer24]

He’s a 42, he’s huge

[@DavidBagga_Shorts]

@@r3tr0actiongamer24 I got this girl umas number off the ticket stubbbbbb, hope she’s good looking 🤞🏽😂

[@kdub1242]

@@r3tr0actiongamer24 I've been working out.

[@Carado5150]

The mug is round, the jar is round.

[@DavidBagga_Shorts]

@@Carado5150 SOUPS NOT A MEAL! 😂

[@curlyg9925]

Jerry’s man crush: Keith Hernandez George’s man crush: TONY!!

[@mikek5958]

"Hunky...Tony!"

[@garylobo3]

The Mimbo.

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

Step off George step off, 😅

[@garylobo3]

@@user-bl6ne3hc6n As George slides his cap around backwards, to mimic Tony.

[@memoryhero]

Oh I am down. Put me down.

[@lynnturman8157]

I live in Amarillo, Texas. Nobody's definition of where it's happening. I saw him perform here twice. And I was convinced he was just gonna phone it in. Cause he's Jerry Seinfeld and this is Amarillo. And both times I saw him, he killed. Both times, all I did was laugh for 90 minutes straight.

[@mikebradshaw6484]

Amarillo, Tx. The armpit of the world.

[@Mgranadosv]

Every clip I have seen online of him doing a show live he's always such a pro. Be it a special recorded professionally or someone on a phone or just audio, sounds like he always delivers like it's Madison Square Garden.

[@garylobo3]

Hey man Amarillo! The Big Texan! Prime Rib? Forget about it!

[@josephpaul4548]

Saw him in Vegas recently. Was hoping he would be in rare form. He was - as always.

[@ppumpkin3282]

Lets not forget, Jerry is 70 years old.

[@raymondwilson293]

that is a great interview... maybe the best interview I've seen with Jerry

[@andrewhall7930]

0:55 Jason Alexander said that the elisode the Contest was the tipping point. After that episode, they received a lot of press and their numbers began climbing

[@alexscrimpshire8761]

As a professor, I sometimes get that same head of sweat and I know what I’m saying isn’t landing. People may not realize it, but we are really performing and we know when students aren’t engaged. 😅

[@JasonMcClainEvolved]

I wonder how wiggly Rich was in his seat not wanting to correct Jerry that he is NOT a Mets fan, but rather a Yankees fan.

[@M_Lev]

I was wondering the same thing

[@rickyiglesias5384]

I bet Jerry knows that Rich isn't a Mets fan. He's probably just playing mind games with him. lol

[@Aaliyahchannel2024]

You could hear him die a little inside

[@DocDoccus]

"That was ONE magic loogie."

[@Zorn76]

In the 90's, people were just smart enough to give a show a chance.

[@theeross9060]

Facts ......and rappers too ‼️

[@tt600pch]

Not everybody gave it a chance. My inlaws and parents couldn't "get it". They were in their 50's and 60's. I referred to the show Seinfeld as "intelligent humor" and they watched it with me kind of dumbfounded. Plays on words and everyday odd situations were funny to me.

[@theeross9060]

@@tt600pch that's what makes it funny is the actual SITUATIONS they be in be hilarious...it ain't for everyone...I work in Hollywood..and I know A list producers who don't get it ....at the same time NBC was skeptical as well....Im 42 and started watching as a kid I got it...the first time I watched it 🤷🏾 😁‼️

[@theeross9060]

@@tt600pch whenever someone doesn't get it just remember this iconic phrase....Serinity Now 😆

[@alphanerd7221]

80's.

[@wendellgee11]

"You're so good-looking" after someone sneezed, instead of "bless you".

[@fabiorodriguez4207]

“The Switch”!!! Is Seinfeld’s best episode by far. 🤓😆

[@Carado5150]

IVEEEE GOTTT ITTTTT

[@beaubergeron6369]

You disappoint me my friend.

[@cintikevin1]

I dunno. The “opposite” was pretty darn good and so was the “Abstinence.”

[@stephenrasmussen8160]

Bromance is the word you're looking for Jerry!🤣

[@ZenShroud1]

Yes, but definitely not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[@hollystiener16]

Bromane is when they are BFF's and are inseparable and no one understands their inside jokes. Man crush is correct.

[@hollystiener16]

@@ZenShroud1 haha

[@CASII47]

Seinfeld is one of if not my favorite sitcom of all time. However, how they were able to keep getting renewed year after year when their rating didn't pick up until mid season 4 is wild. Shows nowadays would've been cut after one season easily.

[@Carado5150]

Rich is in absolute heaven here

[@AnthonyLeighDunstan]

No bs. Genuinely, Seinfeld is, without guile, the greatest sitcom ever. No one will beat it. Seriously though, I’ve never guiled.

[@BenSkyLakewood]

Nice chat as Jerry always is.

[@TWO4Lyfe]

Jerry killed Saturday Night’s Main Event?! Let me tell you somethin’ brother!!!

[@arthurstriker3894]

I ve been flying for 30 years. Totally random his take on pilots. Pretty funny.

[@MSDOGS1976]

Initially I didn't watch the show. I'm not normally into sitcoms. It was probably season 3 before someone told me this is a series to watch. Of course I've seen them all now many times over. Same with Big Bang Theory. It looked stupid in commercials but once I watched one I was hooked.

[@gheller2261]

I saw Rich multiple times at the U Club and he was funny.

[@sweetstephylu]

“….Armadillo-ish” 😁🍭

[@vulcandj]

I find myself saying “I just want to borrow your dust buster” quite a lot lately.

[@pete3445]

I used to watch early episodes of Seinfeld because I liked when they broke off to Jerry doing actual stand up bits. The show itself was SLOW first few years. It wasn’t till George turned into Larry David ( not Woody Allen), and Kramer was let loose, that the sitcom really got good.

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

George started with Woody Allen, then Larry David and finally morphed into Jackie Gleason in the Honeymooners at the end (yelling and waving his hands)

[@garylobo3]

Great interview boys. And Jerry finally came off the crew cut and let his hair grow again. Five Greatest sitcoms of all time: 1. The Honeymooners 2. All In The Family 3. Seinfeld 4. M*A*S*H 5. I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore, tied There, I said it.

[@jmmypaddy]

Shame you looked at it from a US centric view.

[@garylobo3]

Really is that a shame? Since I'm a US citizen that's what I know. You know the United States right? The greatest country, and comedy, in the world? Should I have rated the top five sitcoms in Zimbabwe instead?

[@kennethbrady]

You know what? I think your list is perfect. Honeymooners at #1 is a stroke of genius. And well placed.

[@garylobo3]

@kennethbrady Thank you. And All In The Family beats Seinfeld, because without it, there isn't any Seinfeld.

[@SubTropicSam]

Great interview

[@kdub1242]

Keith's smile would light up the room.

[@lipkin108]

I can listen to behind the scenes of making of Seinfeld

[@garylobo3]

Whitey Herzog, the Cardinal's manager and GM, practically gave away Keith Hernandez to the Mets for ineffective closer Neil Allen, because of Keith's drug use. Big mistake, but the Cards won the pennant in 85 and 87, while the Mets won it with Keith in 86. Huge rivalry between those two teams in the mid to late 80s.

[@estradaj777]

It’s still relevant, I think real stories combined with good writing makes it a hit

[@semipenguin]

Truck drivers: Let me drive this truck. That’s all I want to do is drive this truck.

[@dimaztri19]

Saturday Nights Main Event BROTHERRR!

[@keithk1559]

Remember the theme song? Obsession by Animotion, loved it!!!

[@thankfullycraig6954]

I did not know Jerry is a masochist lol

[@avlanche7777]

Jerry is 110,000% correct! Coming from a McDonald’s fry guy… I get it!

[@haroldmordt4421]

The second spitter! In the gravely road not the grassy knoll!

[@tylers1984]

It was obvious your heart wasnt in the Frosty movie. Seinfeld so pampered and out of touch. Seinfeld was a cultural necessity. That is what you were born to do. Be grateful.

[@cabellero1120]

His tv show is 1 of The Most popular....and he didn't want to do it.... blows your mind! I guess it's like they say " Everyone wants to be a Rock Star but what does the Rock Star dream of being?"

[@cabellero1120]

" it's a good gig, it's fun but I don't want to do it." We should all be so lucky! So Many of us work because we Have to, Not because we Want to!"

[@KaneRobot]

SNME died so Seinfeld could live. I guess. Not that the wrestling didn't move to Fox for a few episodes, but still weird to hear.

[@foto21]

THere's a brilliant interview of Larry David on the topic of how the show got going. Seinfeld says they are the same people, but David's story is completely different. The way he tells it, he couldn't handle the stress of the continuing obligation of writing entire episodes, even though the first order was 4 shows, then 8. It took a long time for them to be guaranteed entire seasons.

[@dr.awkward9075]

As far as ratings are concerned, i think the episode 'The Contest' was the turning point.

[@ivywoodxrecords]

So honest man thats crzy

[@colesteele1]

Seinfeld is the Garfunkel to Larry David’s Paul Simon. You can have Larry w/o Seinfeld, but not vice versa.

[@r3tr0actiongamer24]

Jerry had it made in 1980, that’s when he arrived. Then can great together and can be great separately. They DONT need each other to be successful

[@theeross9060]

The needed each other...end O Story.

[@colesteele1]

@@r3tr0actiongamer24 Without Larry David’s clever writing, Seinfeld isn’t funny.

[@alphanerd7221]

That's absurd.

[@brianmoore5498]

i likelistening to jerry talk

[@andrewhall7930]

"Please I have so little! Seven! Seven!"

[@cherbutler85]

Come on, Jerry. Those first years were brutal.

[@helterskelter1980]

Hardly a reveal as it’s a pretty well known fact that the people at NBC didn’t like the show but they gave them a shot anyway. The rest is history.

[@thegood9]

Hmm...Jerry must not know too many pilots, lol...

[@hollystiener16]

he is most likely talking about the ones when he takes a private plane

[@Cassius3745]

WHAT THE HELL IS HE EVEN SAYING WHEN HE'S QUOTING LENNY BRUCE AT END, HE WHISPERS TOO LOW!

[@nativomusical]

“It’s granite out there”

[@gokhanersan8561]

Those who are looking for overnight success should listen to this : “it was 4 years of struggle.”

[@imxlnt2]

Probably why he didn't want to bring the show back

[@netezon]

In an interview for the american TV archives, Warren Littlefield claims that the first 4-episode order for Seinfeld was funded by cancelling a Bob Hope special (here Jerry claims it was funded by siphoning cash from "Saturday Night Wrestling"). In another part of this interview, Seinfeld claims that the marine biologist closing monologue was written the night before, while (in another interview) Jason Alexander claims that it was written on the day-of because the audience had a so-so reaction to the original ending (where the show closes with George walking out into the sea). It's funny how different people will have such divergent memories of the exact same events - and yet people will confidently claim X or Y happened rather than being uncertain. Goes to show how much your brain is interpolating from context when you are "remembering" something. Just remember that when someone is telling a story, the details are colour. They're probably not accurate but the story-teller can't leave them out because then the story is boring.

[@archivedocumentaries6776]

Eisen is Jewish which is why i love him!

[@Kylefassbinderful]

Pilots being happy makes me laugh when I think about how they have to manage a bunch of different factors on a three dimensional plane. I would think it can be incredibly unnerving to fly a plane.

[@madnessontheisland]

The wisp had a nice long run. RIP

[@colonialstraits1069]

30 years on, it’s apparent that Larry was the real creative and comedic force behind Seinfeld.

[@alphanerd7221]

That's absurd.

[@pete3445]

I think it’s like peanut butter and jelly. Both are good. Together they’re great.

[@okyouknowwhatever]

Jerry Seinfeld's voice and tone of comedy is just so whiny and monotone, and his material is really simple and kinda middle of the road and annoying. I never found him funny in the slightest, or with any type of edge. His show could be pretty funny at times though but I think it was mostly because of the writing (David) and some really talented side characters (mostly Richards and Knight, and also Louis-Dreyfus). I still think it's very overrated though.

[@alphanerd7221]

@@okyouknowwhatever "so whiny and monotone" You have to pick one of those insults.

[@dannyarcher6370]

If that were the case, you'd expect the show's ratings to slump in Seasons 8 and 9 after Larry left. They went up.

[@LORDBYRONII]

Awesome

[@SoFloCo-ne4rk]

Inculcate is not the right word.

[@sepandghanouni7741]

He is a national treasure

[@schenken660]

The show was very patchy until season 6, and then it was pretty much sublime.

[@ianfravel5756]

"YOU SAID YES!? Don't you have any pride or self respect? How could you prostitute yourself like this?" - Kramer

[@AnilRamcharitar]

As an self-made Entrepreneur in sales & marketing since the 90s, I follow Jerry Seinfeld for inspiration, not motivation. How he is and what he says, has helped me weather some serious career storms. And yes, I do love what I do as well, and jump out of bed daily, to take on whatever comes at me. Thanks Jerry!

[@garypickul2648]

That’s one magic loogie.

[@petermacnab1871]

They didn’t like the show for 4 years ??

[@MrDmoe23]

Lil Duval is a comedian and a airplane pilot lol

[@haraldsletterod]

Goes on promotion tour for his movie. Ends up talking about Seinfeld 99% of the time

[@Paumanokcom]

NBC. Still not convinced.

[@cadriver2570]

"One of" "ONE OF"

[@therandysmith697]

They took the money from Bob Hope, not Wrestling.

[@mikefriend1514]

Didn’t want to do the sitcom? It went nowhere for 4 years and still they sweated blood to make it a success? Come on! Sitcoms allowed David and Seinfeld to develop the kind of comedy you cannot deliver doing standup. It’s their gold mine

[@deanmichael7985]

It couldn’t happen today! If it’s not a some what hit today it’ll be canceled within 6 episodes

[@joetheplumber2970]

I still miss; Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy... lol

[@da8675]

See, Jerry credits Friends success on following Seinfeld but Seinfeld's success grew from following Cheers.

[@pete3445]

He’s often said that

[@DenkyManner]

Hard to believe he's 70. He'd pass for 50s

[@keneticchannel]

Some run ultramarathons to feel pain. Jerry likes to try sets in tiny cities.

[@kjetilhansen5363]

To be fair, the first season is kind of bland. Lucky for us all that they decided to give it a chance. Sometimes it takes a few tries for a good concept to find its footing. Definitely a lesson to be learnt here.

[@geebee380]

Saturday nights main event!

[@WMDistraction]

Jerry using the word cretinous to describe how stupid comedians need to be is gold

[@jeffhodge7333]

Pilots used to have a great gig, but now they are treated like bus drivers. The airlines abuse the pilots and the flight crews.

[@randyzeitman1354]

???? WHAT DID HE WANT TO DO????

[@jillg6536]

What does the guy say to the band ? “Its g________ out there” I’ve held the speaker to my ear and I still can’t hear it or figure it out even knowing the context

[@1Clearwords]

Granite

[@1Clearwords]

Granite

[@piggyroo100]

Kruk and T Mac in Philly is best local broadcast.

[@McDuffin]

I can tolerate t Mac when he’s paired with kruk. Kruk is the ultimate color guy. Not so much with Ruben or Ben.

[@kevinburke6055]

Jerry just casually says they used to have wrestling on for SNL. Yeah I know it was called main event. 1988 I was nine years old Dave Werner’s twin schemed with Million Dollar Man to have Hogan lose the belt to Andre the Giant

[@radiosant]

Not the show he's talking about. Saturday Night's Main Event was the show that preempted SNL (approximately) once a month.

[@Icien1]

"The original pitch was how [Jerry] gets their material." So basically an average milktoast life.

[@MarshallIgnas]

Milquetoast

[@thenightfoxx]

i would trade michael kay immediately

[@VBC_Records]

i dont want seinfeld on everything gassing another ridiculous out of touch pompous cash grab now

[@synthkatt]

I was a pilot and didn’t enjoy it

[@tvviewer4500]

Today I learned that Jerry Seinfeld was super gay for Keith Hernandez and Rich Eisen is very defensive of the silly way he makes a living

[@WillDean-d5p]

B-o-r-ing

[@BillCosbyTouchedMyDoodle]

I can't help but wonder if "Seinfeld" would've made the headlines for ironically saving Frank Sinatra's life (had he survived), based on three factors: 1. The series finale coincide with his death. 2. His ambulance was able to arrive at his home and then to hospital very quickly in light traffic, due to many in Los Angeles indoors watching the finale. 3. The storyline centered on the four friends being thrown in prison for breaking the "Good Samaritan Law" (watching, instead of helping, an innocent bystander being car-jacked).

[@randyzeitman1354]

Pilots are happy? ... they have it super tough do they not? ... maybe a 25 year veteran?

[@pete3445]

Being a pilot is a bit like being a comedian. You struggle, get paid almost nothing at first, take risks and in the end hopefully it pays off. But most will look at the struggling as the best times.

[@hollystiener16]

He is most likely talking about the pilots that fly when he is on a private plane.

[@xplaybwoix]

Would Seinfeld have been a success without Larry David ? No Would Seinfeld have been a success with Jerry Seinfeld? Possibly .

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

What's so amazing and lucky, that pilot was sooooooo awful, like cheers, 2 of the greatest sit coms of all time, got to give it a chance to grow, what they call "" the water cooler show""

[@FreshGrey-pm4vw]

bob fosse made Lenny

[@Alec-x5l]

Were they running a fucking vacuum? Something is off about this audio