Seinfeld Overview

Jerry Seinfeld was already a success as a stand-up comedian when he and Larry Davidcreated the hit TV sitcom Seinfeld in 1990. Seinfeld played a fictional version of himself: a single standup comic in New York, surrounded by offbeat friends and coping with the trivialities of modern life. (The show co-starred Michael Richardsas Kramer, Julia Louis-Dreyfusas Elaine, and Jason Alexanderas George Costanza.) The show became a huge hit for NBC and for Seinfeld, who ended the show in 1998 while it was still earning some of TV's best ratings and reviews. Seinfeld wrote the comedy book Seinlanguage in 1993 and...