Against all odds, this hip, insider sitcom about a comedian (Seinfeld playing Seinfeld) and his three Manhattan friends has expanded its appeal beyond a core audience of yuppie tastemakers. This fall, without Cheers’ help, it’s in the Top 5. Last winter, moved to a Thursday-night time slot following Cheers, the show vaulted into the Nielsen Top 10. Now in its fifth season on NBC, Seinfeld is in its glory days. Yet they seem unfazed on the Seinfeld show, scrambling to keep up is business as usual.
After lunch the two will repair to the Seinfeld offices on the Studio City lot across the street to rewrite this week’s script - a script that is already late and getting later. Sounds like material for a couple of Seinfeld episodes right there, but on this particular day, more pressing work is at hand. “And I walk around wondering who’s hating me this particular day.” That’s how he keeps his friends.” “All my friends are comedians. Jerry is just the opposite, says David: “He has no obligatory phone calls.
