Jason Alexander confirms no one knows anything about this Seinfeld reunion
Last month, Jerry Seinfeld teased a new project with Larry David. Thus far, no one has called Jason Alexander
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If a Seinfeld reunion were to happen, we’re pretty sure George Costanza would be the last to know. The hopelessly self-absorbed, solipsistic New York Yankees executive would only bog down the planning with questions about himself anyway. But George Costanza isn’t real, and Jason Alexander, the actor who performed the harrowing tales of Costanza for 170 episodes, doesn’t know anything about the reunion either. Speaking to Extra outside a celebrity poker tournament, Alexander confirmed, “no one called me.”
“There is only one reason for that rumor. Apparently, at the end of some stand-up thing, [Jerry] went, ‘Larry [David] and I are thinking of something.’ Good for you. I don’t know anything about it. No one called me,” Alexander said in a joking and warm-spirited tone. “Apparently, they don’t need George, and they may not need Elaine because Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and I went, ‘Do you know anything about this? I don’t know anything about this,’ and I just talked to Michael [Richards] the other day, and I don’t think he knew anything about it.”
So what is this Seinfeld “reboot”? Well, as of now, the only Seinfeld reunion occurred roughly 13 years ago on Curb Your Enthusiasm. The reunion certainly provided fans still feeling cheated by the original Seinfeld finale (which remains way better than its reputation) with a satisfying conclusion to the Seinfeld story. Will there be more? Well, in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, “We already screwed up one finale,” why tempt fate and screw up the good reunion?
Or maybe—just maybe—the thing that Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld are working on is not a Seinfeld thing. Perhaps it has something to do with that Pop-Tart movie Seinfeld supposedly shot last year. One year ago, Seinfeld told The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix saw the movie and “then we’ll see where it’s at next week.” Though we’ve blown past his “early next year” release, we’re still curious about this one.
“There is no story,” Seinfeld said. “But there are a couple of elements that are true that we use to begin the story, which is that Post came up with this idea, and Kellogg’s heard about it and said, ‘We have to do the same thing.’ And then I kind of told the story as The Right Stuff with NASA versus the Soviet Union.”
We have yet to learn what any of that means, but boy, would we like to see it someday.
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If George Costanza isn’t in it, it isn’t really Seinfeld. He absolutely made the show. Without him, it would have been just another (very funny!) tv show, but with Costanza it was iconic. So many of the shows quirks come straight from him (and Larry David).
Thanks, man.
The key to the whole show is Newman.
“If George Costanza isn’t in it, it isn’t really Seinfeld”I don’t know, The Pen was a pretty good episode. I do agree with you though.
The Seinfeld season of Curb was the most masterful way to simultaneously do and NOT do a reunion at the same time. They’d be foolish to try to do anything else with “Seinfeld” – not that I think they’re actually considering that at all.
I agree. And for the record, the Seinfeld finale was fine. This wasn’t Game of Thrones or the Sopranos. It was Seinfeld, a pre “Golden Era of Television” sitcom. It had more in common with I Love Lucy than what airs today. It was beloved and so a send-off was a nice courtesy but in the tradition of lightweight (“What writing? It’s a sitcom!”) sitcoms, episodes are supposed to be self-contained little stories with low stakes. Yes, Larry David innovated on Seinfeld and dragged the format forward with longer story arcs and therefore raised the stakes on the characters but still, “it’s a sitcom.” So nobody should care all that much if the finale was any good or not. The series and individual episodes still stand firmly on their feet. The same can’t be said for Game of Thrones where, arguably, the botched final season tarnished everything that came before it.
“And for the record, the Seinfeld finale was fine.”No it wasn’t.
People are going to get mad at you, but you’re right. The finale was fine. An absurd attempt to wrap up basically every outstanding storyline in a single television event. Ultimately, David was f*cking with the audience, which is 1000% on-brand and in the spirit of Seinfeld’s DNA. It’s no one’s favorite episode, but finales almost never are.
One thing people forget is that before the 1983 M*A*S*H finale it wasn’t common for shows, even long-running popular ones, to have its finale be a big event.
I really like how Jerry Seinfeld was willing to play a version of his weird TV persona for Curb Your Enthusiasm – even as a straight man he comes across as uncomfortable and odd (unlike his assertively boring public persona). All the actors play “themselves” like that, and it’s wonderful.
Worth it just for “Acting Without Acting”
What the deeeeal with the Seinfeld reunion?
“the original Seinfeld finale (which remains way better than its reputation)”It’s really not. It’s a lame, lazy, boring, cookie-cutter episode to end a show that was anything but lame, lazy, boring and cookie-cutter.
Probably a Super Bowl commercial.
Beat me to it. I should have scrolled.
I think we all know that there will be a Seinfeld reunion eventually and it will be a stupid Super Bowl commercial just like every other nostalgic reunion.
Guy451 is getting upset about a Seinfeld reboot!
I would love to see an Oppenheimer-like breakfast food film.