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Article: Show must go on // One more year of `Seinfeld' ? Let's strive for 5
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 1997
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At the Screen Actors Guild Awards show a few weeks ago, the star and
co-creator of the most successful television show of the 1990s stood
at the podium and addressed the audience in a deadpan style.
"My name is Jerry Seinfeld, and I am a bad actor," he confessed.
"But I think I have proven convincingly that you can do very well
when you surround yourself with spectacular talent."
It was a funny bit because it's true, and you have to give
Seinfeld credit for cheerfully acknowledging it. But the thing of it
is, he's had to sharpen his acting tools just to reach the level of
bad.
When "Seinfeld" - originally titled "The Seinfeld Chronicles" -
debuted in 1989, it hit the ground running as a ...