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Future "seinfeld" that was part of "curb your enthusenthusiasm." >> the durability is only really matched by "i love lucy." its still run on tv stations around the country. anyone who runs a tv station who has a show thats failing knows they could put a "seinfeld" repeat on to replace it and get a better rating. its still funny to several generations because every moment of the show is about getting a laugh. no emotion. no character development. every story is about setting up some guy with a bi...

>> he wants me to help him move. >> help him move? move what? >> you know, furniture. >> what did you say? >> i said yes, but i dont feel right about it. i mean, i hardly know the guy. thats a big step in a male relationship. the biggest. thats like going all the way. >> its a big step, and thats something everyone can relate to. on the side with comics, though, a lot of todays comics still widely influenced by "seinfeld." steve holmes has a whole bit. lets look at that. >> were both comedians. ...

Rangel. >> and seinfeld, a tv show about nothing, turned out to be very big. the actor who played j. peterman on the show up next. "hardball," a place for politics. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira is proven to help relieve pain and stop further joi...

You just take cereals word for it. rigatonis untrustworthy or something? is that funny? is that good? >> your thoughts on the impact, and is rigatoni untrustworthy? >> its very trustworthy, actually. but what "seinfeld" did is it was a template for a lot of very successful shows that followed. this idea of a group of unrelated adults who have rules that they live by. a lot of the comedy comes when someone goes outside of those rules. you saw that in "friends," in "how i met your mother," and ver...

East coast who got -- who were a little more connected to it. they liked the feeling of it and wanted to try something different. in. >> it took three years for it to become a hit. >> one of the things i think is i watched it in virginia. now that i actually live in new york, i feel like i get it on a whole deeper level. i thought it was funny then. now i really actually connect to it. >> you also have to remember, this was before social media. this is before video on demand and streaming. if yo...

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 wasnt ever. seinfeld went out ofity way to provoke, baffle and offend. often blasted adds show offy, cold, even hateful. when georges fiance died from licking env...

>> hey, joy. you know what they used to call ruth bader ginsburg in law school? notorious rbg. >> that was good, ari. >> we got a bunch of good stuff. were going world cup. were going to touch on the civil rights with a great author. what els? seinfeld, a show about nothing and something. were doing the 25th anniversary. and my closing remarks today will be on why corporate personhood isnt actually the problem. >> dont forget about the weather. >> all right. "the cycle" comes up next. car . vo: ...

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Why has itt aged so well compard to other sitcoms. >> it has that comfort food type of idea. it replicates its audience every few years. disney every seven years has a brand new audience to watch all of their entire library. in the same way that every four years, a brand new group of kids get shuffled off to college an they all sit around and watch the same shows together for the first time that theyre all together, i have a feeling that thats part of the ratings success of "seinfeld", the fact ...

On the show. all of the characters, they -- and the four of them would have sold each other out. in any particular episode, they all -- everybody threw each other under the bus all the time. but it was recoverable. >> they would say it to their faces a lot? >> yeah, it was a little like the character that jumps off the cliff in the cartoons, always crashes and he doesnt die somehow. theres a little bit of the recoverability of the injured souls on seinfeld, i guess. >> is that what made it work ...