I so enjoyed watching this and smiling the whole time. I was privileged to be shadowing Andy Ackerman as a director on several episodes. I got to hang out in the stands with Alec and Jeff and Spike and David while network notes were happening. They were all so fun and funny. And Jerry was bringing a different one of his 26 porches to the lot each week (or day? I can't recall). Anyway, thanks guys, sorry to have lost touch over the years.

Kramer auditioning to play Kramer and not getting the part is the most Kramer thing possible

The whole Kramer thing is so Meta. The real Kramer, works out weird business ideas and promotional activities based oh his character being used in a sitcom...which is exactly what the Kramer character would do.

Even the behind the scenes for this show are hysterical. "Larry, this would never happen to anyone, and if it did, no one would ever react that way!" I'm dying.

larry david getting upset in real life at not getting thanks for actually buying the "big salad" is hilarious.

The casting director should receive some kind of an award. Almost of all the supporting actors were equally fantastic along with the main cast.

The fact that the actor who played Jackie Chiles actually knew Johnnie Cochran makes it even better. I mean what a coincidence

“By fictionalizing what was a true story, you actually got to meet Jon Voight.” Gold.

i had forgotten how good Jerry Stiller was..All of his movements and mannerisms are baked into the character in the same way as his voice.. Truly amazing.

There's a Seinfeld episode for every situation in life.

The one sketch that Larry got on the air at SNL was about some architects designing a building and 1 of them put a chair in the elevator for the elevator operator and the owner of the building hating it and demanding it be removed and them arguing about it. Of course Larry did something similar later on Seinfeld with the chair for a worker to sit.

I don’t think people appreciate how good Seinfeld was. it was on for 9 seasons and literally every episode is a classic.

It must really blow Dan O'Keefe's dad's mind how many people ended up knowing what Festivus is.

The Peterman Reality tour was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.

I love how unhinged all the writers lives appear.

I always figured the plots were either exaggerated versions of what happened to David at some point, or something he heard about someone else. And George Costanza is the greatest sitcom character of all time.

So basicly Sienfield is 70% real things 30% writing

I am 57 years old and my family and I still quote lines from the show. The writers obviously did as great of a job as the actors.

So, it wasn't the characters that were horrible people, it was actually all the writers... LOL!

Every single actor/actress in this show is pure comic genius. I've seen every episode multiple times. I never tire of watching this show.

This is WAY better than those "re-cap" shows. To understand the ingenuity behind this genius is incredible. A show about "nothing" - but Life itself. Awesome! Could not turn away! Happy Festivus, everyone!

The irony that every episode it a true story just makes the show even better.

I have maintained for years that every situation in life has a corresponding Seinfeld episode to explain it.

That’s so funny that the soup nazi was real and the way he reacted to that episode.., priceless!

Tom Gammill getting conned by a car salesman with the Jon Voight car is the funniest true story in this.

Seinfeld was pure gold. I mean, even in my life today I find situations from the show. It was really good and even today we can enjoy it like it was the first time, it is always funny!

The fact that episodes were based on reality doesn’t surprise me at all given how many times a week I yell “WE’RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY!”

It's so funny how they use Kramer for ideas and make money off him but they're so annoyed that he would want to use them to make money for himself. It just cracks me up.

"It was a floating holiday which made it all the more ominous." LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣

This was so good. Jack Klompus. He’s so over the top but also real. Pure brilliance. Writing and acting so perfectly aligned. Amazing.

This year, it'll be 25 years since this show ended. Seinfeld still maintains the bar.

That first "take the pen" was so perfectly delivered

i love Seinfeld and i love Larry David.. i just binged all seasons of Seinfeld for first time ever 6 months ago... when it ended i was sad that i will never see a brand new seinfeld episode. and now i am currently watching Curb Your Enthusiam first time through. Fantastic Shows.

Larry calling someone else “eccentric” is probably the funniest thing about this video

The double dip is an underrated hood classic. Even as a small child. I knew the move was to break your chip in half if you wanted to dip twice.

This makes the Seinfeld series even cooler knowing that their stories for the episodes came from real life! I guess its true what they say about writing what you know!

I thought George was just written for Larry David but it's ALL the writers who wrote their actual life experiences for George lol

The WRITING is what separated Seinfeld from dreck like Friends, Frasier and even Cheers. Seinfeld allowed these wacky writers to push the envelope, see how much they could get away with, and literally write absurdist humor, as opposed to endless "relationship shows" and "who's sleeping with who" merry go rounds. The entire Season 4 story arc from The Pitch to The Pilot etc where they literally spoof the whole idea that NBC allowed them to write a sitcom "about nothing", in the process not only making fun of NBC, but the President of NBC (Warren Littlefield) for approving Seinfeld was absolutely pure genius that will never be duplicated again on major prime time network TV. Its amazing they were allowed to do that and run with it.

3:38 the art of acting without acting. Having said that....Jason Alexander brought life to George.

I was absent-mindedly YT surfing and came across this. I'm half way through, and I'm staying until the end. Lovely stuff, most enjoyable - thank you.

i think this is one of the main reasons that the show was very successful .. because most of the time people can relate to the stories .. a brilliant idea

My local council requested names for our lane. Neighbours and I wrote council and were successful in getting it named "Festivus Lane"

Living in New York we all knew someone in life like one or more actors in Seinfeld, thats the genius of the show. Im 68 and i remember every episode. There all clasic.

My grandfather saw the episode with the astronaut pen and he got obsessed so we bought him one for Christmas and he showed it off to everyone.

I love how the craziest parts of the show were real and the most normal parts weren't lol

Best show ever. It’s probably the only show I ever seen over n over so many of times through the years, yet it never gets old

I think what made this show so popular os how spontaneous and relatable the stories were

I love Seinfeld. I could watch every single one in a row still.

There's no way this guy's like the real Kramer - Larry David: "He gave a whole list of demands he wanted for using his name" OK wow spot on

This is gold. Seinfeld : why did you tell her, you idiot! Again, Seinfeld: alright go back to her and see what she says. We’ll have our next scene. Also loved all the writers, especially the festivus one. He could have acted as a character.

so much iconic dialogue. The best writing.

So your telling me one of the best tv shows of all time is just a bunch of inside jokes between friends and colleagues aired for the world to see.. and it worked!

When I'm feeling down and need a laugh I watch episodes of Seinfeld. There's not very many shows that make you laugh almost immediately. Every character can make you laugh.

I sometimes wonder how much time I’ve spent watching Seinfeld.

Lol! Tipping someone & them not noticing is such a hilarious bit. George was the greatest Everyman character OAT!

"No human being would react like this!" "What do you mean? This happened to me and this is exactly how I reacted." 😅

This was such a special show. There hasn't been a sitcom before or since that was able to consistently knock it out of the park every single episode the way Seinfeld did. The way the show went out while it was at its ratings peak makes it just that much better. There was no long slow decline or getting pushed aside by something better that came along. It became the best sitcom in its first season, stayed on top year after year and was the best it had ever been when they called it quits. If I recall correctly NBC was so desperate to hang on to the show that they were offering the cast something like $5 million an episode to keep going. Hard to imagine turning that offer down but they did and that just makes the show even cooler in my view. Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer, Newman, Mr. Peterman and all the rest- Thanks for all the laughs.

"Festivus is a floating holiday" truly ominous 😂

The Marble Rye story is actually a true story that happened in my family. My Aunt became engaged to someone called "Lenny the Goon" (that is what my family called him. His parents were on the wealthy side. This being the early forties my grandparents were still recovering from the depression and did not have so much money, When their daughter became engaged to Lenny, the parents of the bride-to-be were invited to dinner at the groom-to-be's parents' home. They thought it would be nice to bring marbled rye with them as a welcoming gesture. The host failed to [ut the marbled rye out on the dinner table which not only offended my grandparents but also they were looking forward to having some of this prized delicious delicacy. Well, a fight ensued during dinner over other issues and my grandparents got up to leave. Someone went into the kitchen and spied to the prize atop the refrigerator and they took it and left. It did not fly out of the window, although that is quite funny. My cousin Neil was a writer for many television shows and I am sure he told it other writers which is how the story came to the producers of the Seinfeld show. We have laughed at this story since the 1940s in my family.

This is a great compilation; thanks for putting it together. I've seen the cast and Larry David talking about the show, but it's cool to here more from the staff writers, and to get a sense of how each of them contributed to the story from their lives.

Oh God I love that the Big Salad really happened. 😂

I love how 51:27 is bleeped. He said “embellish it” and someone interpreted it as “embellish sh*t” hahaha

Just knowing all these episodes were based on real life scenarios made them even better! Like that was even possible.

This is interesting. Seinfield had great writing. Id love to see how an episode took shape from start to finish. Each writer has their own ideas and vision. The way they would weave them all together and build upon them from previous episodes is impressive. Seeing how its done would be a delight.

Jeff Schaffer and Alec Berg talking about the award show story with "the dude" killed me those guys bounce off eachother so naturally.

I Found - Curb your enthusiasm by pure accident and was about to switch over when I am glad to say, something made me stay with it. I am so glad I did Curb your enthusiasm is pure Comedy genius it’s just non stop laughs, and I am so glad there are multiple seasons I haven’t yet had the pleasure of watching, Happy days 😊

There were great pairings that had chemistry and were hilarious together but Kramer and Frank was the best….So damn funny together.

These are some great interviews, thanks. Most of all, I'm happy to find out that a father really did invent Festivus and impose it on his family, and that he, Dan O'Keefe's dad, is proud that millions now celebrate his holiday worldwide.

The fact the quitting scene is based on a true story is the best thing ever.

What's wild, is I was never a Seinfeld fan at all. I have just binged the entire series of Curb your Enthusiasm, which I absolutely loved.

Shit looks like the got really lucky getting the writer Spike Feresten to write for the show. Some of my favorite parts of the show are things that happened to that guy. This is a great compilation in general, thanks OP!

For me I think the double dip episode was the most iconic and still rings a bell in my head when I see dip to this day

I loved Seinfeld and it was the perfect prep for the show curb your enthusiasm. It's like everything you love about Seinfeld but unfiltered and now you take it straight. No cream or sugar anymore just raw Larry David and it's perfect.

I never knew that but now makes it even more funny that some of this stuff was real and written to be even funnier.

If your about to get married and you need to ask yourself, "should this person have my card #", you should not be getting married. Marriage means you become ONE entity. Not two separate people with a "agreement". If you dont want that then do not get married, your doing it for the wrong reasons. Having said that, I love this show.

Watching this makes me want to be watch the whole series again. Knowing some of the characters originated this way makes it that much more enjoyable.

I love how petty Larry David is in real life.

And here we are watching a video about the real kramer, where the actors and writers explain why kramer couldnt be the real kramer in a show where kramer did the real peterman experience based on kramer doing the peterman book where the real peterman didnt write the peterman book, while the real kramer is in a bus when he was doing the real kramer experience. Its like the 7th wall we didnt know existed was broken.

When I was a teenager in the 80’s I used to work at a hardware store after school and weekends. I used to assemble everything that required assembly bicycles being one of those items. On Saturday mornings with a hangover I’d pile the bikes boxes up making a wall then sleep until noon, lol.

Knew it was based on Larry David's life. I knew some of Jerry's life too. This shows how you can base stories on things we can All relate to. If you couldn't have anything grounded in truth-This Show would Not have worked. It Top of the Line ~ Larry & Jerry=Geniuses !!!❤

if youre a Seinfeld fan like me...this is Gold Jerry!!!! Gold!!!!

it was great to hear the backstory on some of my favorite episodes. Great vid!

Jason's impression of Larry is spot on 😅

As a Screenwriter they say " write what you know " ; but these guys have taken it to a whole new level...

Yooooo this was fkn GREAT!!!!!! Talk about lightning in a bottle, I never knew how much I actually loved this series until watching and hearing the writers takes in turn making it even more relatable

This video is so awesome. Thank you so much for taking the time to share it with everyone.

When this show was on air, I didn't watch a single episode. It was until I was in college, where I came to love this show.

Truly believe no one could play Kramer part as Michael did. He definitely fit that part so well. Still watch this show today even reruns. One of the best comedies on tv.

29:00 wow Newman looking great here Amazing video by the way

I can't get more than a few minutes forward without wanting to stop and watch the respective episode.

When Larry David was talking about embarrassing messages on answering machines, I literally turned red thinking about some of stupidest messages I left…30 years ago!

I noticed that Elaine was looking at the travel section of the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Since the show is set in New York City I would think she should be reading the New York Times. It was probably because the show was filmed in Los Angeles, although the New York Times could have been purchased at many newsstands in Los Angeles. They probably figured nobody would notice. I never noticed until now and I have watched reruns of Seinfeld many many times.

newspapers and telephones add so much to a scene. that double dip the chip and the big salad are classic

This is GOLD Jerry, GOLD!👌

Such a perfect show

The Voice may be my favorite episode. The voice, Kramerica, George fighting with Play Ball to stay in his office, all so funny.

Kramer is my spirit animal. the way hes able to say whatever he thinks and feels is truly the best,.

Back in the 1990’s, San Francisco had a “Martini Nazi” at joint called Zam Zam in the Haight. One misstep and it was ‘No Martini for you!” 😂

These guys are so naturally funny I laughed harder in the first four minutes of this documentary then I have had the past five comedy movies I've seen.

3:40 This was in regards to the episode where George gets mad at his boss, tells him off and quits, only to later regret quitting. Jerry tells him just to go back and pretend it never happened, which he does. Too funny!