"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. 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."
I've always seen Seinfeld as the benchmark of situational comedy. It's core root is everyday situations any of us could get into, and how funny they are, but when you look at them objectively or try to explain to others, than can seem mundane. It's the opposite of generic sitcoms where ridiculous things happen to generic people, most stuff that many of us would never experience in our lifetime. In Seinfeld, the stuff that takes place happens with everyone, just like most of these things happened to Larry David.
Seinfeld is great, millennials have a hard time getting it or thinking Jerry is funny or something but I think he’s hilarious and the show was usually just joke after joke, one comedy bit after another, it’s a back and forth kind of thing. It’s genius
+Biggus “Maximus” Dickus met·a ˈmedə/ noun 1. short for meta key. adjective US 1. (of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
That was ALSO a reference to classic tv-shows, where the "hero" often used to look at the camera and smile, wink etc. And Jerry was basically Superman in this episode: he had a girlfriend called Lois, he was facing off against a former rival Duncan Meyer, and the episode ended with him winning the race and getting the girl. Perfect setup for one of those moments!
+Radman1889 I always remember the Fairy odd parents, Cosmo was on TV and Vicky turned the channel, Cosmo comes up and says, "This is a show about nothing, how do we know when it's over?!" lol. "Ah, good times, good times."
nothing would be on level if you keep looking at it through rose colored lenses. i could say how i met your mother was on the same level, but then we get into the subjectivity of humor.
One of the geniuses of Seinfeld is that it looks like they're not trying when the reality is that behind the scenes Larry and Jerry were working as hard as anybody in Hollywood ... or anywhere else for that matter.
martin j krumm even though they're not trying, maybe it's an effort to not try. Because everyone knows the best part is that they're not trying. So they are trying to not try. They know it won't be as good if they do try, so they do everything in their power to not try.
I luved this episode...it was like a black hole...the show about nothing being pitched within the real show about nothing that was pitched to the real network by jerry and larry as the show about nothing....greatest show ever on TV.
I'll never ever forget when i watched this scene on TV. Absolutely unforgettable. And i love how they threw in the chinese restaurant episode. Now i'm going to go watch that...
That's because this conversation actually took place with an NBC network executive with they presented the idea of waiting for a table at the Chinese restaurant. The executive said "I don't get it , nothing happens." So Larry David incorporated that conversation into the actual show years later during this episode.
Seinfeld is a show about nothing in the sense that with Seinfeld you could make a show with George trying to find his car in a parking lot. With no other sitcom could you do that. In that sense, Seinfeld really is about nothing.
Haven't you noticed this whole dynamic is an homage to the great comedy teams... Kramden and Norton, Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, and mostly like you said.. Abbott and Costello Comedy, as in the rest of all things in life is based on its foundation. This show worked so well because Seinfeld and David are such students of the comedy craft
So we go into NBC and tell them that we have an idea about a show about nothing. Exactly. They say whats your show about and i say nothing. There you go I think you may have something here! GENIUS PURE GENIUS "THATS GOLD JERRY, GOLD!!!!!"
the genius of this is that Seinfeld is not the show about nothing because people called it that. It is a show about nothing, because this episode put that thought into people's heads!! genius!
It's brilliant that a show about nothing, is one of the most loved sitcoms of all time.... Anyone who isn't aware of Seinfeld or a fan, must be confused!😅
This is as meta as the episode of Kirby right back at ya about animation. Characters in a show basically detailing the process of creating a show. This is so meta it hurts.
loved this part. Actually, I love all Seinfeld parts that are witty, intelligently silly and/or subtle. Sitcoms don't have to be just funny, without any intelligent joke in them, and Seinfeld delivers aplenty on this very thing, which is why it did so well... among other things...
At this point I can remember we were already all in love with this show. If they'd tried to pull this crap early on, no way. But at this point we we're all just in a trance, watching this show. This was just perfect!
Gtfo. Under what pretext, no matter the timeline, could this routine be deemed as crap? This is comedy gold, the timing perfection... in any spacetime dimension. You have a warped view of the world from living in your self inflated bubble
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"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. 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."
I've always seen Seinfeld as the benchmark of situational comedy. It's core root is everyday situations any of us could get into, and how funny they are, but when you look at them objectively or try to explain to others, than can seem mundane. It's the opposite of generic sitcoms where ridiculous things happen to generic people, most stuff that many of us would never experience in our lifetime. In Seinfeld, the stuff that takes place happens with everyone, just like most of these things happened to Larry David.
Seinfeld is great, millennials have a hard time getting it or thinking Jerry is funny or something but I think he’s hilarious and the show was usually just joke after joke, one comedy bit after another, it’s a back and forth kind of thing. It’s genius
@@hippiecheezburger5457stop making assumptions about generations, that statement is just not true.
I love how there's the kind of self-mockery in this scene.
kind of?
@@fakenamefakeaccount7174 it's called meta humor
@@AlejandroSanchez-zb4bk Shut up.
@James Flowers how can it be fourth wall breaking if the wall isn't even there? It's about nothing after all 😅😂
Seinfeld was very meta... but they never broke the 4th wall... but they sure as hell poked holes through it and peered through once in awhile.
+Biggus “Maximus” Dickus
met·a
ˈmedə/
noun
1.
short for meta key.
adjective
US
1.
(of a creative work) referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self-referential.
@notorc, don't forget about the BIIIIIIIGGGG salad.
"PACK IT UP SOUP NAZI NO MORE SOUP FOR YOU, NEXT!!!!!"
They broke it in the race episode at the end where Jerry winks at the camera
That was ALSO a reference to classic tv-shows, where the "hero" often used to look at the camera and smile, wink etc. And Jerry was basically Superman in this episode: he had a girlfriend called Lois, he was facing off against a former rival Duncan Meyer, and the episode ended with him winning the race and getting the girl. Perfect setup for one of those moments!
"What writer? We're talking about a sitcom"
- some writer on a sitcom
"What writer? We're talkin' about a sitcom."
Ooo, burn, to every SitCom "writer"
"It's a show about nothing...
...
...
How do we know when it's over?"
+Radman1889 I always remember the Fairy odd parents, Cosmo was on TV and Vicky turned the channel, Cosmo comes up and says, "This is a show about nothing, how do we know when it's over?!" lol.
"Ah, good times, good times."
***** "Wanda you got some explaining to do. . . ."
+Radman1889 when a plane crashes and all the main characters end up in jail. One of which takes on the role of a stand up comic.
when nothing is done
"I do!"
**changes channel**
"...what writer, we're talking about a sitcom"
best line
Brilliant. This is breaking the 4th wall without actually breaking it.
Like acting, without acting.
Man, it's like this audience is experiencing meta-humor for the very first time.
MJTRadio Rosanne and seinfield were the first to break the wall I remember. I could be wrong.
They never made a Sitcom in America that was anywhere near as good as this again.
Ever heard of Malcolm In The Middle
Nicholas Simone not really on Seinfelds level IMO
Curb
John Hamilton curbs great, but I don't think of it as a sitcom
nothing would be on level if you keep looking at it through rose colored lenses. i could say how i met your mother was on the same level, but then we get into the subjectivity of humor.
This is friggin' brilliant. The best part? They're not even trying!
One of the geniuses of Seinfeld is that it looks like they're not trying when the reality is that behind the scenes Larry and Jerry were working as hard as anybody in Hollywood ... or anywhere else for that matter.
martin j krumm even though they're not trying, maybe it's an effort to not try. Because everyone knows the best part is that they're not trying. So they are trying to not try. They know it won't be as good if they do try, so they do everything in their power to not try.
The ultimate 4th wall break
113stDFX9900 They didn't even break it.
yannick245 they did lmao they said they were all characters on a show about nothing that is meta which is 4th walk breaking
Bob Pickleson dude...
Bob Pickleson that’s not breaking the fourth wall. It’s meta humor. Breaking the fourth wall is when a character acknowledges the audience.
WRONG.
2:16
Pay attention to this cadence; the rhythm of it sounds EXACTLY like when Jerry ends a joke in his actual standup.
Seinfeld is the Taoist sitcom
I think you may have something here.
So this is how Sienfeld started. Now we know.
jerry telling the story at that store around min 5 ua-cam.com/video/I8_2hPjljag/v-deo.html
I luved this episode...it was like a black hole...the show about nothing being pitched within the real show about nothing that was pitched to the real network by jerry and larry as the show about nothing....greatest show ever on TV.
Thanks for all the years of watching the same scenes over and over. Love this show.
Slice of life in a nutshell.
best show on earth
Kramer, now HE's a character!
This is meta as fuck...
first clip of tj e show i saw and it blew me mind
I'll never ever forget when i watched this scene on TV. Absolutely unforgettable. And i love how they threw in the chinese restaurant episode. Now i'm going to go watch that...
So awesome how the Seinfeld show is actually about nothing. It was the whole idea behind it and i love the show.
This scene is just brilliant.
The actual process of how memes are made.
I'm not looking to speak for other people, but I'm quite positive about the fact that nobody cares about memes here
@@simonetanzi5103I care about memes :C
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The basis of Seinfeld in an episode. A bit of Abbot and Costello too. Priceless.
That's because this conversation actually took place with an NBC network executive with they presented the idea of waiting for a table at the Chinese restaurant. The executive said "I don't get it , nothing happens." So Larry David incorporated that conversation into the actual show years later during this episode.
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As soon as Jerry is saying he still doesn’t know what the idea is this is basically an Abbot and Costello routine.
this is the greatest sitcom scene in history
One of the most iconic scenes of all time
-I still don't know what the idea is.
-It's about nothing!
-Right.
-Everything will do something will do nothing!
*GENIUS*
I think at the moment George says “we’re talking about a sitcom” he has some grapefruit pulp in his eye. Lol
"And what are you gonna tell them?"
"It's a show about nothing."
how do we know when it's over?
@@Rellobros I remember the fairy odd parents even did this in the 2nd episode with the power surges XD
Seinfeld is a show about nothing in the sense that with Seinfeld you could make a show with George trying to find his car in a parking lot. With no other sitcom could you do that. In that sense, Seinfeld really is about nothing.
They dared to accept that oftentimes nothing is enough :)
The ability to make a show out of nothing doesn't equal nothing
Seinfeld is the OG Meta show
2:04 Jerry does a great Lou Costello impression
Haven't you noticed this whole dynamic is an homage to the great comedy teams... Kramden and Norton, Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, and mostly like you said.. Abbott and Costello
Comedy, as in the rest of all things in life is based on its foundation.
This show worked so well because Seinfeld and David are such students of the comedy craft
The only conversation better than this one is when Kramer schooled Jerry about marriage.
"It's a man-made prison, Jerry. You're doing time."
Kramer..boxers vs briefs..at 1st elaine doesn't get it..then she's on top of the back of sofa..
Lol, that reflex always cracks me up XD. So visceral.
"So who's on first?"
"THAT'S WHAT I WANNA KNOW!"
So we go into NBC and tell them that we have an idea about a show about nothing.
Exactly.
They say whats your show about and i say nothing.
There you go
I think you may have something here!
GENIUS PURE GENIUS "THATS GOLD JERRY, GOLD!!!!!"
One of the only postmodern sitcoms of all time.
MinamuTV what do you mean by “postmodern” here? As in, “ahead of its time” ?
@@dannykal deconstructionist, a show without a great narrative
Whenever they say it's a show about nothing, I always say that it's about anything realistic.
We go to NBC we tell them about the show it's about nothing,I think we may have something...Haha
the best scene in television history!!!!!!
Abbott and Castello anybody? This episode is a fucking classic......
They really ought to teach this in schools
Best scene in sitcom history
And that's why people say it is a show about nothing.
Greatest show ever.
"What writing? We're talking about a sitcom..."
I watched this clip last night. Today "salsa" helped me solve the Wordle word of the day.
Seinfeld (and much of modern sitcomery), summarised in a word. How to spin lots of apparent something out of precious nothing.
This is hands down the best scene in television history!
0:35...I definitely think that's Jason Alexander, not George, laughing at Jerry. Classic scene!
A show about nothing! ❤️
bob sacamano deserves an emmy.
Everybody is doing something and we'll do nothing😁
Love this show.
Comedy masterpiece
Writing a sitcom is super easy barely an inconvenience
That is funny part when Jerry and George talking about salsa and show and nothing that is funny and hilarious
the genius of this is that Seinfeld is not the show about nothing because people called it that. It is a show about nothing, because this episode put that thought into people's heads!! genius!
It's brilliant that a show about nothing, is one of the most loved sitcoms of all time.... Anyone who isn't aware of Seinfeld or a fan, must be confused!😅
This really was a show about nothing 😂
They made us laugh by talking about salsa...
lol love this skit
This is my fave show!
A show that pitches to itself.
This is as meta as the episode of Kirby right back at ya about animation. Characters in a show basically detailing the process of creating a show. This is so meta it hurts.
It's a UA-cam video about NOTHING! :D
im a character, people are always saying to me 'you're quite a character'.
need guts to make a show about nothing and still be in the top 5 sitcoms ever even after 3 decades
"I think you may have something here."
loved this part. Actually, I love all Seinfeld parts that are witty, intelligently silly and/or subtle. Sitcoms don't have to be just funny, without any intelligent joke in them, and Seinfeld delivers aplenty on this very thing, which is why it did so well... among other things...
'Who says there has to be a story?' The audience George. The audience.
a show about nothing? this show was a show about something that we can all relate to. jersey shore on the other hand, is indeed a show about nothing.
The Show About Nothing
How do you know when its over?
Nothing happens.
How do you know if it started
What George pitched actually did become a show: Reality Shows, such as the Osbournes, the Kardashians...
SEGA: So, Sonic Team, how are ypu gonna wow the fans with the first showing of the game?
Sonic Team:
..and thus seinfeld was born.
this video slaps the truth right in the tibula.
Achingly great.
That's the point.
The nothing pitch literally is Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jerry took the whole nothing concept to new heights with comedians in cars getting coffee
Every sitcom ever
Irony, by definition, is not intentional
excellent stuff.
This is basically the architecture for every streamer ever 🤣🤣🤣
There is something about nothing that means a lot of things
Salsa
True, the common factor is the characters, the situation develop from their foibles.
this has the "who's on first" vibes
This is like "who's on first?" xD
Because even nothing is something.
At this point I can remember we were already all in love with this show. If they'd tried to pull this crap early on, no way. But at this point we we're all just in a trance, watching this show. This was just perfect!
Gtfo. Under what pretext, no matter the timeline, could this routine be deemed as crap?
This is comedy gold, the timing perfection... in any spacetime dimension.
You have a warped view of the world from living in your self inflated bubble
Abbott and Cosrello, "Who's on First".
Plot twist: This is how the show really started.
You're kidding! 😲
Originally I thought Sitcom stood for Situation Comedy and now that I think about it Scene comedy .