Still think there’s like a 30% chance I dreamed that Seinfeld episode where Kramer puts the Merv Griffin Show set in his apartment
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I used to vaguely know the screenwriter who pushed "Seinfeld" toward the crazy Kramer-centric episodes, like The Merv Griffin Show Set, during the show's last couple of years, He looked much like Kramer: 6'3", 160 pounds, and twitchy, very twitchy.
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Well, Curb is as funny as Seinfeld, but Seinfeld didn’t really fall off after Larry David left, either. Seinfeld would still be a celebrated standup (& talk show guest) if he’d never done the show.
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Replying to @colbycosh @TaeilTellsTales
If you are a stand-up comedian doing stand-up, it's not respectable to hire writers the way Bob Hope did. But if you are stand-up doing a sitcom, it's perfectly respectable to hire writers. So, did Larry David write stand-up jokes for Seinfeld in 1980s before "Seinfeld"?
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It would seem perfectly reasonable to me than in the 1980s Larry David, a great comic writer, wrote jokes for the stand-up act of Jerry Seinfeld, a great stand-up. But I've never seen any evidence for this guess of mine pro or con. It seems like kind of a secret.
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My vague impression is that stand-up comics these days try to impose a cartel-type rule against other stand-ups employing joke writers, to keep one stand-up from monopolizing the business the way Bob Hope did.
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As Mark Steyn noted, Bob Hope made his joke writers into part of his rather postmodern shtick: "I just put together my earthquake survival kit: canned food, bottled water, and a half-dozen joke writers." But now comics are supposed be all artisanal about their small batch jokes.
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