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Jerry Seinfeld thew a small shadiness astatine “Friends” during astatine nan 2026 Netflix Is a Joke Festival, claiming nan show was inspired by his ain iconic sitcom, “Seinfeld.”
The comedian made nan remark during his group astatine nan Greek Theatre successful Los Angeles Tuesday during a spot successful which he asked nan assemblage to conjecture what his all-time favourite show was, per nan Hollywood Reporter.
When an assemblage personnel shouted retired “Friends,” Seinfeld said he had a mentation astir nan drama starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and nan precocious Matthew Perry.
“My show [‘Seinfled’] came connected — ’89, ’90. ‘Friends’ came connected a fewer years later,” he noted.
“I deliberation NBC was watching my show and went, ‘Hey, this is moving beautiful well. Why don’t we effort nan aforesaid point pinch good-looking people?’ And that was a beautiful bully idea,” he continued. “I deliberation that benignant of worked.”
“Seinfeld” — which starred nan titular comedian arsenic good arsenic Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander — premiered connected NBC successful 1989 and ran for 9 seasons.
“Friends” debuted successful 1994 and aired for 10 seasons connected NBC.
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Both shows revolved astir a adjacent group of friends surviving successful New York City, though “Friends” was communicative and character-centric while “Seinfeld” was famously dubbed a “show astir nothing” by Seinfeld himself and co-creator Larry David.
This isn’t nan first clip Seinfeld has taken in installments for nan occurrence of “Friends.”
Kudrow told nan Daily Beast successful 2022 that Seinfeld erstwhile walked up to her astatine a statement successful nan ’90s and told her “you’re welcome,” arsenic “Friends” had been put connected NBC’s schedule correct aft ratings juggernaut “Seinfeld.”
Last month, Kudrow revealed nan “Friends” formed still gets a whopping $20 cardinal a twelvemonth from residuals, much than 2 decades aft nan deed sitcom came to an extremity successful 2004.
But she noted successful nan aforesaid question and reply that their acquisition filming wasn’t ever positive, and that “there was decidedly mean worldly going connected down nan scenes.”
“Don’t hide we were signaling successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage of 400, and if you messed up 1 of these writers’ lines aliases it didn’t get nan cleanable response, they could beryllium like, ‘Can’t nan bitch f–king read? She’s not moreover trying. She f–ed up my line,'” she recalled to nan Times of London.
Kudrow besides claimed that nan writers’ room, which was composed of mostly men, would “be up precocious discussing their intersexual fantasies” astir Aniston and Cox. She recalled nan clip arsenic “intense.”
