25 Yada Yada Yada Facts About “Seinfeld”

Jennifer M. Wood and Mental_Floss present 25 Yada Yada Yada Facts About Seinfeld.  Here are three of my favorites…

2. IT WAS NEVER PITCHED AS “A SHOW ABOUT NOTHING.”
During a 2014 Reddit AMA, Jerry Seinfeld admitted that both he and co-creator Larry David were surprised by how Seinfeld earned its “show about nothing” moniker: “The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material,’” Seinfeld explained. “The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it’s the opposite of that.”

5. STEVE BUSCEMI AUDITIONED FOR GEORGE.
Steve Buscemi is one of many soon-to-be-successful actors who unsuccessfully auditioned for Seinfeld. David Alan Grier was also in the mix, as was David Letterman’s bandleader Paul Shaffer, who said in his autobiography that his resemblance to Larry David (upon whom George is based) was what made him of interest to the show’s creators.

22. SEINFELD TURNED DOWN $110 MILLION FOR SEASON 10.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But when Seinfeld turned down the chance to earn $5 million per episode—a grand total of $110 million—to come back for a tenth season, the network finally got that he wasn’t kidding around.