Jerry in other FILMS / SERIES ?

Do anyone know of any other films or series that Jerry has appeared in??? I've heard something about a serie in the early eighties......do anyone have it??

Andy

Jerry appeared on the series Benson once or twice as an aspiring joke writer for the governor.

He's hosted Saturday Night Live, and has appeared (as himself) on News Radio.

Of course, he's made numerous appearances on talk shows...The Tonight Show, Letterman, Larry King Live, as well as a Barbara Walters Special.

OK....what did I miss?

60 minutes

Seinfeld appeared as a consultant I think in an episode of "Benson," the spinoff of the 70's sitcom "Soap."

TbrdsRGo "You tried, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try." HJS

TBrds R Go wrote:

In the recent A&E Biography they said Jerry played a gag writer in 4 Benson episodes and was then rudely fired.

He was a cast member of "Benson" in all of three episodes during the 1980-81 season. It was SUPPOSED to be a regular recurring part, sort of like Newman was on his own series.. Jerry played a lower level staffer in the same governor's office where Benson (played by Robert Guillaume) was moving up the ranks. Jerry didn't last long. Apparently the producers thought so little of him that they didn't even bother to tell him he was fired, until he showed up for a script runthrough one week and got the word right in front of the rest of the cast when he asked why he didn't have any lines in that week's script. It didn't really matter much...within a few months after he was fired, he got his big break as a standup with his first, highly successful appearance on the Carson show. Many more would follow.

He's also had minor roles in a couple of made-for-TV comedies for cable in the early and mid-80s, though he first made a featured appearance on TV as headliner of a comedy standup special on HBO in 1987. At about the same time, he auditioned for, but didn't get, a starring role in a sitcom that eventually went to Howie Mandel . (That show only lasted one season.) Jerry told Vanity Fair recently that the experience of that audition convinced him that if he ever went for another sitcom he'd have to create it himself along with people he trusted, rather than trying to make someone else's ideas and words work. It wasn't long after losing that part to Mandel, that a rambling conversation over a late dinner with Larry David (supposedly at Tom's Restaurant in Manhattan) gave birth to the concept of a "show about nothing."

His career bio in the Internet Movie Database shows no feature film roles. Jerry says there never will be any, except MAYBE a feature-length TV or theatrical reunion film about the series characters, if he and Larry come up with a good enough script idea. He doesn't like the idea of working in movies, doesn't think he is well suited for them the way someone like Jim Carrey is...so he won't be doing them.

Bob Smith, afternoons WXXI-AM 1370, Rochester NY

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:30:08 +0200, "Anders Christiansen" wrote:

He has a 6 and 1/2 second part in the Danny DeVito film "The Ratings Game", which incidentally has a larger role for a guy named Michael Richards.