Jerry Seinfeld Makes Bold Claim About ‘Friends’

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Good+Foundation There would be no Friends without Seinfeld , according to Jerry Seinfeld. While headlining the Netflix Is a Joke festival on Tuesday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Seinfeld told the crowd that his hit sitcom inspired NBC to take another stab at his “show about nothing,” but with a twist. “I think NBC was watching my show and said, ‘Hey, this is working pretty well,’” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly . “‘Why don’t we try the same thing with good-looking people.’” Friends premiered on the network in 1994, five years after Seinfeld ’s debut. Seinfeld had a “rough beginning,” as Seinfeld put it during a live taping of Ari Emanuel and Ben Persky’s The Rushmore Podcast at the same festival, at which he appeared with co-creator Larry David. David, during the taping, said that the show had only offered four episodes—the “smallest order in the history of television.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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