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Unlike most contemporary comedians whose entire careers are pointed toward the San Fernando Valley's sound stages, Seinfeld says he relishes returning to life on the road as a stand-up comic, which he claims as his true vocation, the "noblest endeavor." He plans to tour Europe and Australia this summer and then spend a week on Broadway filming an HBO special titled I'm Telling You for the Last Time; it will mark the last time he performs his current act. It's a kind of self-imposed trick, he says, to force him to write and perform...
Clearly he's not ready to start opening up his veins in public just yet. When asked if he's been seeing anyone romantically after breaking up with his longtime girlfriend Shoshanna Lonstein last year, Seinfeld--after ribbing the reporter who dutifully if reluctantly posed the question--responds only with an old joke from Larry David's stand-up act: "I'd like to start a family, but you have to have a date first." Having already sold his L.A. home, he's planning to move back to New York City and open up a small production company, more about...
Given the fact that it seems to be his entire life, will he be sad when Seinfeld is all over? No, he says, then reconsiders. "I was sad the last few days. I saw an old Odd Couple rerun, and it was all yellow. You know those old shows--why are they all yellow? And then I thought, this is what my show is now--a re-run. It's not going to be a living thing anymore." No. Welcome, Jerry, to the land of TV's undead. One senses there's a routine there somewhere...
Imagine that Coke Classic told Coca-Cola it wanted to finish its run on top and was quitting, or that Windows announced to Microsoft that after looking deep into its heart, it had decided to move on, and you will get some idea of how Jerry Seinfeld's decision to end his show will affect NBC. Quite simply, the network is a company that is being forced to discontinue one of its most profitable products. NBC made an estimated $500 million last year, and Seinfeld contributed some 40% to that total. The comment of Seinfeld that the show is "about...
...loss of that direct profit is only part of the damage NBC will suffer as a result of Seinfeld's departure. Starting in the early 1980s, the network has dominated Thursday nights with programs like Family Ties, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Hill Street Blues and LA Law. For the past five years, Seinfeld has been the keystone of the network's Thursday lineup, which now includes Friends and ER, two other huge hits. The habit viewers have of watching NBC on Thursdays is one of the network's greatest assets, but with no Seinfeld to watch, the audience may fall...