Why seinfeld isnt funny

Where else would we start this list but with the show by and starring the co-creator of Seinfeld himself, Larry David.

Larry the scripted version is just as selfish, offensive, and ignorantly self-destructive as any of the characters on Seinfeld. Plus, the show is an HBO original, and thus features content and situations that its predecessor, being a network sitcom, could never dare to explore.

Depending on your taste for and tolerance of irreverence and dark humor, you might find this show even funnier than Seinfeld itself. It features four dudes and a gal that run a pub in Philly. The characters themselves are all perfectly fleshed-out with antisocial and psychotic tendencies, and yet disparate enough from each other to make them fit perfectly together as the most dysfunctional group that may have ever been amassed on the small screen.

The League is another show with few boundaries when it comes to the appropriate or sacred. The main premise of the proceedings is a yearly fantasy football competition between a group of friends, which has allowed for guest appearances by quite a few NFL players, but more importantly, provokes the characters to do terrible and insidious things to each other to gain an advantage in the league.

One could hardly write a Seinfeld -like list of shows without including Veep. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.

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Do you like this video? Play Sound. NBC sought a deal to work with Seinfeld, originally planning to shoot a one-off comedy special. Eventually this was tweaked to a half-hour pilot, because Seinfeld doubted the premise would stretch over a full-length special. The original pilot, off-puttingly titled The Seinfeld Chronicles , starred Seinfeld as a fictional version of himself.

Though the pilot was received poorly by test audiences, NBC greenlit a short first season — just five episodes, almost a slap in the face by most measures — with one stipulation. They insisted that Seinfeld add a woman to the main cast. The last strike of lightning had entered the bottle. Seinfeld was, in many ways, a reaction to the conventions of the sitcom form. But despite this changing sensibility, and the departure of David two seasons before its conclusion, Seinfeld never jumped the shark or lost what made it great.

Alexander, Louis-Dreyfus and Richards were all sublime, delivering finely honed character work that was unceasingly funny. Seinfeld, meanwhile, was conspicuously the worst actor of the bunch, but this hardly mattered. His interstitial stand-up routines were always amusing, and the scenes in which his straight face falters hold a rare, blooperish delight. Alexander has enjoyed a number of creditable parts across film and TV, but he is still widely known to the world only as the buffoonish George Costanza another running joke in Curb.