Well, I missed that one completely. I don't recall that show at all.
Apparently, there was show called "She's the Sheriff too that ran for 44 episodes, where she was the Sheriff in a town near Lake Tahoe. It apparently was aired in first-run syndication.
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That's actually how I knew of her, the hot mom on that show. RIP
Her big raise was to be paid on par with John Ritter. It was her opinion that the three characters were equally important to the show. She might have been successful if she had Joyce Dewitt negotiate with her similar to what the Friends actors did.
Now look at everyone older than you and know they have all gone through this phase and know what it says about theirs, and yours and mine, and all our mortality... aka the human condition.
Never watched a single Seinfeld episode. Found something very off putting about Jerry. Maybe it was his lack of sense of humor when Howard Stern relentlessly mocked him after he married that young girl. Found Norm disturbing too. Never watched friends a full episode of Friends either. Would watch for 5 minutes, get bored and turn it off.
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Jerry screwed his costars royally.
He did not marry a young girl. Jessica Seinfield is 52 and they married in 1998. As I do math, that makes her 27 when they married. He did have a brief relationship with a 17-year old before he married. The "scandal" about Jessica was that she was married, but she says she moved out before she met Jerry.
Whoops, close but no cigar for me. From Shoshanna's Wikipedia: "While still a 17-year-old high school student, she met then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in a public park.[1] At that point, Seinfeld got her phone number.[2]"
"Well, she was just seventeen/ and you know what I mean. . . "
BTW, it is said that Paul McCartney (always inclined to oversentimentality) wrote the second line as "and no beauty queen," and that John Lennon changed it.
They are getting the standard rate but when on the air their salaries by the time show ended:
I agree that Jerry ranked 4th out of the 4 stars, but Larry David was the backbone of the show. He left before the final two seasons, which were fairly bad.
They’ve all done fine. None of them are hurting for money. None of them have come out and said they resent Jerry.
Totally disagree. Jerry was the straight man and set up so much of the storyline and he wrote a ton of material for the show. He was the foundation and frankly was funny as hell in most episodes. The other characters while brilliant in their own right, revolved mostly around Jerry.
The thing to keep in mind was that everybody else was a professional actor and Seinfield was (and is) not. That detracted from his performance --but you are right that he was outstanding in other ways.
Think Bud Abbott with 3 Costello when it comes to Jerry and the main cast
Of course he's a great comedian.He wouldn't have made a gazillion dollars otherwise. But that's not the same as being a great actor. Even playing a character based on oneself is hard.Jerry was a deadpan stand-up for many years before his TV show.
He began in 76 and first did Carson in 81 (first tv show in 89).
His stand-up routine was the same kind of "observational" comedy found in the show.
That kind of comedy had a cultural, tranformation of consciousness vibe.
He could point something out and people would be like "oh yeah I do that!"
The funniest deadpanner was Steven Wright with his paraprosdokianisms
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