Not A Show About Nothing
Surprisingly, the show was not pitched as a “show about nothing.” Jerry Seinfeld explained during a Reddit AMA in 2014, “The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material,’ The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it’s the opposite of that.”
Not A Show About Nothing
Cast Vetoed An Episode
Larry Charles wrote an episode about guns that never aired. They cast it, built sets and started rehearsing, but many were uncomfortable. Even Larry Charles reflected to Vanity Fair, “In retrospect, when I think back on it, it was early in the run of the show and I was still figuring out how to do this and I think Larry and Jerry were very supportive, but I wish that I had figured out a way—because this is what Larry David is so brilliant at, both in Seinfeld and in Curb…he can take a premise that would basically not be a comedy or a comedic premise, and he finds a way to do that.”
Cast Vetoed An Episode