Seinfeld or Curb?

[andy at handiwork]

Best of luck. It goes out whenever the schedulers can be bothered to give it a slot, ntstt (never the same time twice) and the plot is a little involved to say the least. That said, its humour leaps out at you even if you dont know who the characters are.

[Snowy]

BOTH fabulous shows - 'Seinfeld' was quite brilliant in many episodes, especially scenes involving the wonderfully hapless George and his job working for the New York Yankees. The way the show portrayed the Yankees' infamous owner George Steinbrenner was sheer genius. It was also worth watching, of course, for Elaine played by the gorgeous Julia Louis-Dreyfus!
'Curb' is on a different planet in the world of comedy - take your pick from classic episodes 'The Doll', 'Beloved Aunt', 'Krazee-Eyez Killa', 'Mary, Joseph & Larry', 'The 5 Wood', 'The Bowtie' and 'The Grand Opening' - for starters from 50 great shows.
Fantastic post!!! Cheers!!! !thumbsup!

[Jock Strap]

I loved Seinfeld and sadly have only managed to catch 1 episode of Curb. The one with Ted Danson and the shirt. It was excellent.

[DanG]

Damn...and here's me thinking this thread would somehow be contrasting Michael 'Kramer' Richards racist outburst with the infamous 'Teeth on the kerb' scene from American History X!

[Bishop Beesley]

I think what Sidney is referring to is a programme broadcast around last Christmas where Ricky Gervais interviewd Larry David...it was a bit of a love-in...but entertaining nonetheless.

As to the question. Well much as I love Curb, I am forced to agree that much of it is more embarrasing than funny...much like The Office. Which is why on the whole I preferred Extras to The Office and Seinfeld to Curb.

Seinfeld to me is probably the greatest sit-com the US has ever produced....and yes some of it was wildly controversial for its time....although Seinfeld tended to get away with stuff other shows couldn't merely because it WAS Seinfeld. The Contest being a case in point.

Oh and one last thing that I really couldn't let slide....to mention Seinfeld in the same breath as Married With Children or Gawd 'elp us, That Seventies Show!! ....let me ask you you stripesidney....did you find George And Mildred really hilarious?

[andy at handiwork]

I think one of the reasons that Seinfeld was so good, apart from the quality of the writing, was that there was never a feel good ending, never a homliy to wrap an episode up, never any preaching, things that ruin a lot of otherwise perfectly ok comedy shows. They never learnt a thing.

[Robches]

Seinfeld was a great show treated like trash by the limp dicks at the BBC. They used to put it out at half past midnight on a Monday night, the stupid fuckers. If Channel 4 had treated Friends like that the schedulers would have been shot, but at the Beeb they can get away with such pathetic amateurism. I don't think they even bothered to show the last series, the useless bastards.

My favourite line in Seinfeld was when George decided to tell the truth for once, so his chat up line went:

"My name's George, I'm 35, unemployed and I live with my parents."

It worked in the show, but somehow I doubt it would translate well in real life.