Yeah Jerry Seinfeld Said It Was Possible That He Could Bring Back "Seinfeld", But It's Not Going To Happen
Huffington Post- Now that Jerry Seinfeld is in his 60s, he finds it easier than ever to just say no to people, he told Ellen DeGeneres on her show Tuesday. But he didn’t dismiss the idea of a “Seinfeld” revival when she broached the topic. “All these sitcoms are having a resurgence,” DeGeneres said, as Seinfeld nodded his head in agreement. “‘Roseanne’ is doing it, I heard ‘Murphy Brown’—is that really true, ‘Murphy Brown’ is doing it?”
“‘Murphy Brown?’ And Candice Bergen is coming back?” Seinfeld asked as he teed DeGeneres up for her big question. “I think I know where you’re going with this ? why don’t you finish it?”
“Well,” DeGeneres said, “do you think, Jerry, there would be a possibility that ‘Seinfeld’ would come back?”
“It’s possible,” the comedian started to say before he was interrupted by the audience’s extended applause. He smiled and said, “They like the idea.” The interview ended before the two could talk about it anymore. Seinfeld has previously said that he has no plans to bring back the hit TV show, which also starred Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes and Jason Alexander as George Costanza.
So this story is going up on all the news sites and blogs as people go crazy, get their hopes up, and start wondering if their favorite Modern Day Seinfeld plot lines could make it on the show. But there is *shouting emoji* NOOOOOOO FUCKING WAY JEROME ALLEN SEINFELD AND LAWRENCE GENE DAVID ARE BRINGING BACK SEINFELD TO TV.
I just looked up Jerry Seinfeld’s net worth. Want to take a guess at what it is up to these days?
$900 MILLION!!! According to the gold standard of reporting (coed.com), Jerry from Brooklyn is 100 milly away from joining the Billionaires Club. And what about his partner in crime Larry David?
Half a billion dollars for Larry!
Do you think Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, who are combined 133 years old and worth about $1.5 billion, want to grind their dicks away with a team of writers to restart an almost universally-beloved show about everyday peasant life that they haven’t worked on in 20 years? Helllllll no.
Even though Seinfeld wasn’t your typical linear sitcom, they would still have to pick up the series finale everyone bitched and moaned about. The thought of Jerry having to talk about that nonsense again is probably enough to keep Seinfeld in syndication. And I imagine any Seinfeld reboot or whatever you want to call it would have to be on NBC. It’s not like Jerry and Larry could take the show to HBO or Netflix or somewhere that lets shows do what they want to do. How do you think those two will handle getting notes from NBC execs? They would wipe their asses with those notes. If you think Mike and the Murrdogg can get cranky, that’s nothing to Jerry and Larry being told by some 27 year old exec to add more millennial jokes and references to social media. And while I can’t picture Seinfeld without Kramer or Michael Richards, that video of him having a fucking meltdown would put quite a dent into his comeback chances.
In the end, if Seinfeld ever came back, I could see Jerry going into the writers room Day 1, remember everything he hated about the show in the first hour, check his bank account, then go Dave Chappelle on the reboot and revert back to living off that sweet Seinfeld syndication scratch.
And if we are being honest, I imagine Jerry dropped that whole “possible” line to get people talking about his appearance on Ellen and her appearance on “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee”. Clickbait 101. But I would never fall for something like that. Nope, not me. I find that type of stuff infuriating to no end.
P.S. If Jerry was a true Mets fan, he would lead a group in charge of buying the Mets from the cheap ass Wilpons instead of making Netflix shows and floating rumors about a Seinfeld comeback.