TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer talks shop
Dave. Remember that Seinfeld episode where Kramer was collecting skeletons and refurbishing them to museum quality by washing the bones in Jerry’s dishwasher so he could sell them off? No? Maybe that’s because it never happened. Television writer, director, and producer Jeff Schaffer ’91 and his friends Alec Berg ’91 and David Mandel ’92 were writing for the show in 1995 when they took that idea to head writer and co-creator Larry David. He rejected it. Two years later, Schaffer and Berg were actually running the show as executive producers and revisited the concept. “We said, ...
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