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> Jerry Seinfeld was worth nearly one billion dollars last time I checked I always wondered who made out better from the show - larry david or seinfeld? > ne
by qiskit 4y ago
> Jerry Seinfeld was worth nearly one billion dollars last time I checked
I always wondered who made out better from the show - larry david or seinfeld?
> nearly all from royalties paid out for reruns of the show. How the hell did broadcast networks like NBC afford a payout like that?
The royalties aren't just from NBC. It's from everywhere they syndicate the show - netflix, amazon, other tv channels, other countries, etc.
- psyc 4y agoAt those dollar amounts, they probably made out roughly the same. David would also be worth about a billion (similarly, mostly from Seinfeld), if he hadn't divorced.
- beerandt 4y agoIdk the payout by role, but besides only being an actor in a few episodes (stienbrener's voice, cape wearing attorney, & ?) Larry David left the show (as a writer) after season 7. I'm sure he still got paid plenty as a co-creator for post-season-7, but I'd think not being a writer for the full run, or being primary cast, would put him earning less overall royalties than Seinfeld, assuming they got paid roughly the same as creators.
- HWR_14 4y agoSeinfeld was among the last shows that paid no royalty to the actors going forward. Seinfeld gets royalties because he was a producer.
- adwi 4y agoThe cast receives standard SAG-AFTRA residuals and negotiated profit participation in the DVD sales. But yes, those are likely order of magnitude less than Seinfeld/David get with their backend participation.
- gingerlime 4y ago> Larry David left the show (as a writer) after season 7. I’m rewatching with my wife, who never watched it before, and definitely the latest seasons feel worse. I didn’t remember it this way. Now I understand why.
- easton 4y agoThe interesting thing is that two of the most remembered jokes from the show, "Serenity Now!" and Festivus, were both in Season 9.
- gingerlime 4y agohonestly fwiw I only vaguely remember festivus and don’t remember serenity now at all. I don’t think seinfeld was great for jokes as such. if anything, I feel like later episodes were a bit trying too hard to create jokes and over-the-top silly situations (e.g the episode where Kramer sells the real Peterman bus tour and Elaine trying to dump the stumps of the cupcakes)
- dwighttk 4y agoMuffins
- gingerlime 4y agoalways get those two confused!
- tamaharbor 4y agoTop of the muffin to you!
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThe Peterman bus tour was a meta joke because the real Kramer was running a Seinfeld bus tour in real life.