There is no stricter more formulaic television genre than the sitcom. In a densely telescopic period of 22 minutes, writers have to present, escalate and solve a situation, while they give the audience the battles of abdomen, which hopefully made the view of the show date. As a rule, they only read from the table for a week to filming, which means that production offers some space for adjustments, but only in the way of a few experimentation. Everything has to be on the side.
Also for a show like “Seinfeld”, Where did the line -up in every episode maintain a high degree of spontaneity? Where do Kramers (Michael Richards) seem to drop in the entire severity of Jerry’s apartment (Jerry Seinfeld)? Where do Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) feel signature shovels as if they were coming out of nowhere? Where the jokes take so many unpredictable turns that the actors seem to be consistently unprepared?
If you are not familiar with the functionality of the sitcom production, it may hardly be believed to nod the baby out of the mohel The episode of the 5th season “The Bris”). Many years ago, his field was asked about improvisation in the sitcom that had his name and his answer could surprise her.
Seinfeld was a mostly improvisation -free sitcom
During a Reddit AMA in 2014Seinfeld revealed that almost everything they saw in nine seasons of “Seinfeld” was written. After the comedy legend:
“We have practically nothing improvised. The actors were so good that it sometimes looks like they are improvising. But we also knew so well that we knew exactly what sentences put in the mouth that would seem that seemed dignity, of course.
TV authors did not get enough shine in the 1990s (ie The TV in front of the peakAs occasional television fans discovered the existence of showrunners), but most of the “Seinfeld” fans are now aware of the phenomenal funny people who have summarized such spectacular jokes. They just couldn’t miss a writing employee who, together with Seinfeld and Larry David, included people like Carol Leifer, Peter Mehlman, Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.
This does not mean that the actors have not added their own frills. Kramer’s entrances became part of it after Richards had come into a keyword too late in the first season “The Robbery”, while Elaine’s shovels were transferred to the series of Louis-Dreyfus’ preference to push their friends after they Amazing or just hearing or simply hearing surprising news. The authors of the show also occasionally also performed last-minute adjustments, with the most famous Kiss-off line of Jerry’s Cuta-Been friend Sidra (Teri Hatcher) being in the episode “The Implant” of season 4 in season 4. Loud Hatcher (as she told Vanity fair In 2014, David fed her the line “You are real and you are spectacular”, shortly before the shoot. Obviously everyone was quickly on the feet on “Sicherfeld”, but when it came to delivering the verbal goods, they almost always held on to the script.
