matt zuler writes, quote, seinfeld was never content nearly to amuse. loathing the idea that audiences might get too comfortable with it. david admonished the writing staff that there is no hugging, no learning in the script. and there wasn t ever. seinfeld went out of its way to provoke, baffle and offend. often blasted adds show-offy, cold, even hateful. when george s fiance died from licking envelopes, he got over it with coldness. matt zuler joins me along with john hourly, you know him as elaine s boss, j. peterman on the show. i will start with you. i love sitcom. i love television. growing up, i watched cheers , seinfeld , and i see it is on and i tune in, seinfeld. why has it aged so well compared to other sitcoms.
no soup for you made it into our lexicon for today. the writers never game up on the darker impulses. matt zuler writes, quote, seinfeld was never content nearly to amuse. loathing the idea that audiences might get too comfortable with it. david admonished the writing staff that there is no hugging, no learning in the script. and there wasn t ever. seinfeld went out ofity way to provoke, baffle and offend. often blasted adds show offy, cold, even hateful. when george s fiance died from licking envelopes, he got over it with coldness. matt zuler joins me along with john hourly, you know him as elaine s boss, j. peterman on the show. i will start with you. i love sitcom. i love television. growing up, i watched cheers , seinfeld , and i see it is on and i tune in, seinfeld.
are we going to talk about jimmy fallon for the next month? but i will be interested to see what kind of promotion they try to hold that audience that jay leno has he leaves with a 15-year high in terms of the ratings. this is also part of, i think, the fallon promotion because they re trying to get everybody to watch and get a lot of fans to make people s eyeballs focus back on the tonight show again. this is the first part and we ll see what fallon can bring. the staff loves him. he is beloved. he s a class act. people don t have anything bad to say about him. and he ll subsidize the staff salaries. not everybody. except for you. i like leno. not a fan of his writing staff. for some reason, they have a knack of coming up with jokes days after they have appeared elsewhere. you know any of them? a few. they made fun of me on the show and i still like him. well, they make a fortune on the show because there s not a
are we going to talk about jimmy fallon for the next month? but i will be interested to see what kind of promotion they try to hold that audience that jay leno has he leaves with a 15-year high in terms of the ratings. this is also part of, i think, the fallon promotion because they re trying to get everybody to watch and get a lot of fans to make people s eyeballs focus back on the tonight show again. this is the first part and we ll see what fallon can bring. the staff loves him. he is beloved. he s a class act. people don t have anything bad to say about him. and he ll subsidize the staff salaries. not everybody. except for you. i like leno. not a fan of his writing staff. for some reason, they have a knack of coming up with jokes days after they have appeared elsewhere. you know any of them? a few. they made fun of me on the show and i still like him. well, they make a fortune on the show because there s not a
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