Posted on 06/07/2010 5:12:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - U.S. sitcom "Seinfeld" has earned $2.7 billion since it ended its 9-season run in 1998, said Time Warner, the show's owner.
The New York Post called the series -- starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a group of neurotic friends living in Manhattan -- the most profitable 30-minute program in TV history.
The show's earnings since it ended have come from syndication rights and DVD sales, with the sitcom's co-creators Seinfeld and Larry David alone having made hundreds of millions of dollars from the airing of "Seinfeld" reruns, the newspaper noted.
In order to make it even more clear, David created and starred in his own vehicle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is easily as funny and more experimental than Seinfeld.
But Seinfeld wanted to make sure there was absolutely no doubt, so he came up with The Marriage Ref - so painfully unfunny and boring as to remove any lingering notion that he was a great comic.
funny... i've had 2 congressional offices tell me the same thing when i complained about the 30% tax increase.
still dragging my feet on it... although the paperwork is ready to go. 2 weeks from signing, 2 checks, and it'd be done. and my 12 year old American company would shutdown and become an international corporation (more than 50% of my sales are international anyhow)
it's just a line i never thought i would cross. but hell if i'll pay 66% of my income to the mortgages and cell phones of slack ass crack heads.
A professor of philosophy once wrote a lengthy essay about how George Costanza is exactly the opposite of the classical model of the virtuous man as described by Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics.
One of the scariest scenes ever televised was the scene in "The Invitations" when George and the others react to Susan's sudden death by poisoning.
Not that there is anything wrong with that....
The episode when George was happy that his fiance had died because he didn't want to marry her took that to the ultimate in selfish conduct.
A show about nothing and a president about nothing.....sweet.
Seinfeld's comedy routines were the weakest part of the show. I don't know enough about the internal workings of the show to comment intelligently on it, but Seinfeld hasn't done anything remotely funny or interesting since the show shut down.
One of my personal favorites:
I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things
About the dullest show ever. Never got through a whole episode. Really grating New York humor at its worst.
Here you go .....
I don’t blame you one bit. I don’t want to send a dime to the sorry people running and ruining this nation.
http://www.conservapedia.com/George_Soros
Criticism of ‘tax evading’ and finances
“George Soros has heavily been criticized for avoiding to pay taxes in the United States. Soros moved his headquarters to the tax free Caribbean country of Curacao, which is outside of the supervision of the United States Government. The Netherlands Antilles has repeatedly been cited by the Task Force on Money Laundering of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as one of the world’s most important centers for laundering illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic. It is a possession of the Netherlands.
Former Speaker of the House for the Republican Party Dennis Hastert stated that Soros money “could be drug money” and “we don’t know where it comes from”. Soros accused Hastert of trying to smear him and demanded an apology.”
Soros doesn’t even pay taxes in this country but he’s got a lot more say that most any of us. Screw that system.
Almost forgot, The Man Bra...
>>> Seinfeld himself stole the show.
>> Nah, it was a show about George.
Nah. At best just supporting characters to Elaine. It was always the Elaine show, although it was several years into the series before I realized this when I finally saw a syndicated rerun of the “can’t spare a square” episode. Only then did I began to regularly watch the Elaine show.
George ranks just below Elaine, then Jerry, then Peterman, then Kramer.
Hello, Jerry.
i pay **gobs** of taxes... and it just eats me inside whenever i hear some libtard going on about how 'the rich' ($150k/yr == rich?! wth? and yes, i'm a bit more than that) don't pay their fair share (i agree... they pay 10x their fair share)... meanwhile, the libtard is usually some freakin parasite sponging off the gov't tit.
not once in my life have i or any member of my family received money from the gov't that we didn't pay into. my parents started receiving ss a few years ago. my Dad only got 4 years before passing away. either way, neither of them are going to get dollar for dollar out. myself, i've never received a thing... and the amounts i have paid are silly (max contributions for 20 years, and i've been my own employer for the last 12... so double it).
and now they want more so they can fund more social programs... IOW... they want more of MY money to give to OTHER people. WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT THAT?! HOW ABOUT GIVING IT TO ME?!
very grumpy.
funny part is... in this 'nation of laws' (total joke these days)... i don't ever remember signing a contract stating how much of my salary i would pay to the federal government on a yearly basis. for that matter, i do not remember even ONCE having a direct say, ie: vote, on the AMOUNT i would pay.
why is it G-d only needs 10% but the US gov't needs 66% or more?
*ping*
Seinfeld was not acting. Arrogant to the tenth.
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