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...wholesale leap into revolving credit is a gutsy move for American Express, whose recent ads have featured Jerry Seinfeld musing adenoidally about what the company has referred to in less lighthearted moments as the "evils of debt trap." AmEx's own maiden voyage into revolving credit -- with the launch of the Optima card in 1987 -- resulted in a plastic meltdown. The program quickly racked up $1.5 billion in unpaid charges, a figure twice the industry average, according to Robert McKinley, president of RAM Research Corp. Since March 1992, when the loss rate peaked at 12%, AmEx has wrestled bum credit...
Michael Richards (Kramer from "Seinfeld") gives a great performance as an annoying guy trapped in the radio station given the terrible lines and antics prescribed by the script...
...ones who have ventured most boldly into the political arena. Not the easy-to-take, nonpartisan "topicality" of Leno and Letterman, but informed, savvy, opinionated comedy about real issues. Miller and Maher are helping stand-up comedy escape from its contemporary cul- de-sac, where Jerry Seinfeld clones obsess about sex, TV and life's little annoyances. These two comics read the whole newspaper -- not just the funny clippings their writers collect for them...
Even after the technological problems are ironed out, legal impediments will remain. One of the toughest has to do with syndication rights. It's one thing to talk about making TV sitcoms like Murphy Brown and Seinfeld available to customers who missed them at their regular broadcast hours, but quite another to negotiate a deal with the Hollywood agents and unions that represent the shows' creators. "How are you going to compensate the actors, the directors, the grips?" asks Ratcliffe. "Lucille Ball still earns money for her shows, and she's been dead for years...
...That's very Irish Catholic thing, having a fascination with women... a lot of comedy for me has always been in my failings. It's a fertile area, if you start to talk about how your prom date didn't go well. Look at Seinfeld-a lot of stand-up comedy is about relationships not working out. It gets harder once you have your own TV show, people are like 'yeah right, you have problems.' It's funny that I interact with supermodels, because I was this guy who had trouble getting a date in high school...