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Post by sarkerpolseng on May 2, 2024 23:36:42 GMT -5
In an interview with Rich Eisen, Jerry Seinfeld states that NBC used the profit from one of WWF's Saturday Night's Main Event to produce and budget the first four episodes of "Seinfeld". Very interesting. youtu.be/I9Sj2LsstrA?si=IwX8794J40OjVM52 |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 3, 2024 7:50:40 GMT -5
Weird that this is coming out as news now, I'm 95% sure they told this on the first season Seinfeld DVD which has a lengthy documentary about how the show was created. When my buddy sent me the headline last night I was able to rattle off the story without actually reading the article. They shot a pilot, somebody with power at NBC really liked the pilot and managed to put Seinfeld under the "special events" umbrella and used money aloted for SNME to produce the other 4 episodes of the first season.
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Post by Sephiroth on May 3, 2024 11:15:03 GMT -5
Gorilla: Oh. Hello…Heenan.
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Post by XIII on May 3, 2024 12:27:29 GMT -5
"They wanted me to play Kramer, brother, but I told Jerry to just use some of the money that the Hulkster made for NBC to fund his show, dude."
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Post by Gerard Gerard on May 3, 2024 13:08:03 GMT -5
Thankfully it came out after VKM's tenure or it would've been shoehorned into a random 'Did You Know?' card they brought back specifically for the purpose of bragging about creating Seinfeld.
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Post by hassanchop on May 4, 2024 19:26:43 GMT -5
At least Hogan doesn't claim he helped make the soundtrack or claim it was inspired from Beefcake's entrance theme
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on May 4, 2024 19:44:09 GMT -5
Weird that this is coming out as news now, I'm 95% sure they told this on the first season Seinfeld DVD which has a lengthy documentary about how the show was created. When my buddy sent me the headline last night I was able to rattle off the story without actually reading the article. They shot a pilot, somebody with power at NBC really liked the pilot and managed to put Seinfeld under the "special events" umbrella and used money aloted for SNME to produce the other 4 episodes of the first season. It’s always been stated since Jerry said this it was a Bob Hope special that got canned. Was going to be 2 hours, so 4 half hours, we got Seinfeld. |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on May 5, 2024 7:07:20 GMT -5
"They wanted me to play Kramer, brother, but I told Jerry to just use some of the money that the Hulkster made for NBC to fund his show, dude." Considering both Hogan's and Michael Richard's careers and reputation got severely derailed for almost the exact same thing, that is a very fitting joke. |
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on May 5, 2024 9:24:11 GMT -5
WWF: Seinfeld is spongeworthy.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on May 5, 2024 9:28:05 GMT -5
"They wanted me to play Kramer, brother, but I told Jerry to just use some of the money that the Hulkster made for NBC to fund his show, dude."  |
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Post by Soultastic on May 6, 2024 16:03:44 GMT -5
"They wanted me to play Kramer, brother, but I told Jerry to just use some of the money that the Hulkster made for NBC to fund his show, dude." Events involving stand up shows and leaked camera footage make this weirdly plausible. |
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