I miss Seinfeld

It's so hard with out seinfeld tv has seen better days

He should come back witg new jokes and a new show because we need to laugh

well that all I have to say about that

Michal

Amen to that. A couple new ABC sitcoms, including Norm McDonald's new venture, show promise, but over at NBC, must-see TV has become must-miss TV.

That's not likely to happen. Jerry's told interviewers repeatedly (most recently Bob Costas last month) that he's not going to return either with a "Seinfeld" revival featuring the old cast, or with a new concept for a series. He just doesn't think he can top what he and Larry David have already done, and it'd just be cheating the audience to try. He also said the reason he packed it in after nine seasons, was that he was running out of new directions to take the characters, and didn't want to show disrespect for the audience by just going through the motions and taking NBC's money. He respected his viewers too much to cheapen what had already been done...so he passed on $125 million in cash (and some say, a seat on the GE corporate board as well) which they offered him to do a tenth year.

There MAY be a one-shot TV or theatrical film reuniting the Seinfeld crew, some time down the road. (Jerry says the door is open to that, but no script has been prepared and no plans have been set for producing such a film any time soon.) The rumors of a series restart on May 14, the anniversary of the finale, are ABSOLUTELY false. For that to be true, the sequel film plus any additional episodes would already have had to be produced, and Jerry's been in New York while his castmates were working on other projects in LA, Chicago and London all fall and winter. They haven't even been in the same place at the same time...although they keep in touch. Jerry, Jason, Julia and Michael will get together next when they meet for dinner on May 14 of this year...the first anniversary of the series finale...something they will do at a location somewhere in Los Angeles every year on that date from now on as long as they're all still alive and well, according to Jerry. Wouldn't you love to be sitting at the table with them that night?

Jerry's right. The Seinfeld series was one amazing, decade-long unique creative moment in American comedy. It's going to be available to see and enjoy long beyond the time we're all gone. It can't be topped...why try? It'd only disappoint and cheat the audience. He knows it's better to let the series' 180 episodes continue to entertain us without spoiling it, and go on to try to make people laugh in a new way. So he's going back to standup (the new routine should be ready this summer or early fall) and maybe do some other form of TV, like talk/variety, if and when an opportunity opens up.

Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY