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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Replying to @colbycosh
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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Replying to @Steve_Sailer @TaeilTellsTales
In his latest special Seinfeld displays 45 years’ worth of legal pads, allegedly containing every usable joke he’s ever written. This sort of gesture is really tempting fate if there are people out there he has bought material from.
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Replying to @colbycosh @TaeilTellsTales
I got a $50 check in the mail from a fairly famous comedian once, with no explanation. Later I was watching one of his HBO specials and he did a joke of mine. But then he topped it with a much funnier second punchline of his own. The pros are _much_ funnier than I am.
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His $50 for my joke bought my silence. That was a generous payment out of the blue, especially because this Top Dozen or So comedian was merely using my okay joke to set up his better joke.
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