Seinfeld Co-runner Reveals When He Finally Realized The Show Was a Hit
Seinfeld was known as "the show about nothing", but had 9 seasons and 180 episodes. Not bad for nothing, huh?
The NBC series starred comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who was also a co-runner of the show with Larry David. First 7 seasons they wrote together.
And each season they shot two dozen episodes, each of which was a complete masterpiece, because of David's perfectionism.
With Jerry being on screen, Larry David was busy doing a ton of work behind the scenes. As the showrunner of Seinfeld he was known as a real workaholic who was heavily involved in all aspects of production.
But as it turned out, Larry David was so overwhelmed with work that at that time he didn't even realize how big his show was…
He once said in the interview with Rolling Stone that he knew that people were actually enjoying his show from the beginning, because he had heard the feedback and it was great.
But he didn't think Seinfeld was actually a giant success until season 4.
"I was in a bit of a bubble because I was working. I was just going to the office all the time. It was Jerry Seinfeld who told me how huge the show was. I didn't quite get it.I didn't go anywhere. I was working," he explained.
So when Larry David left the show, it was so difficult for the creative team to keep the quality up to the standard that they practically had to live at the office.
The executive producer Alec Berg once revealed an interview with Variety that the whole crew was really overwhelmed and worked without having a day off..
Still, Larry David returned to write the polarizing finale that reminded us for the last time that the show's main characters were pretty much all horrible people. And they finally got what they deserved.