Jerry Seinfeld is one of the biggest stars in stand-up comedy and television.
But as successful as Seinfeld is, he has some regrets.
And Jerry Seinfeld made this shocking career confession.
More than 76 million viewers tuned in for the series finale of “Seinfeld” on May 14, 1998.
Americans were glued to TV sets to see how the show would wrap up the story arc for Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer.
The show ended with the quartet locked up in a small-town jail in Massachusetts after violating the town’s Good Samaritan law.
Other than the finale of “The Sopranos” – which ended with an abrupt fade to black which left audiences wondering if Tony Soprano lived or died – no series finale created more controversy about an unsatisfying conclusion than “Seinfeld.”
The final scene of Seinfeld consisted of George, Jerry, Elaine and Kramer sitting around a jail cell repeating a conversation from the show’s first episode.
Ending on such a downer left audiences feeling unfulfilled.
Seinfeld discussed his feelings about the finale with GQ Magazine and admitted he wishes they could have done things differently with the last scene, saying, “a little bit, yeah.”
But Seinfeld added, “I don’t believe in regret.”
“I think it’s arrogant to think you could have done something different. You couldn’t,” Seinfeld explained, telling GQ he and the series co-creator Larry David – who returned for the finale – felt the ending made sense at the time.
“That’s why you did what you did,” Seinfeld added.
Seinfeld said a conversation between himself, David and fellow producer Jeff Schaffer about the greatest TV series finales of all time caused him to reconsider the ending, saying he believed the AMC period drama “Mad Men” – starring Jon Hamm about marketing executives in the 1960s – hit the right note.
“But me and Jeff Schaffer and Larry were standing around, talking about TV finales and which we thought were great. I feel Mad Men was the greatest. A lot of people like the Bob Newhart one. Mary Tyler Moore was okay,” Seinfeld continued.
“I think Mad Men was the greatest final moment of a series I’ve ever seen. So satisfying. So funny,” Seinfeld stated.
Seinfeld said the three rewatched the “Seinfeld” finale and realized the mistake was how they ended the show.
“And they said that they had sat and watched the Seinfeld finale, trying to figure out what went wrong. And it was obviously about the final scene, leaving them in the jail cell…” Seinfeld concluded.
Seinfeld and David got a chance to make good during the recent series finale of David’s hit HBO show “Curb Your Enthusiasm” where David plays a fictionalized version of his real self.
The finale saw David convicted of violating Georgia’s election integrity law.
But just as the show was about to end with Larry David rotting away in a Georgia jail cell, Jerry Seinfeld came to the rescue as earlier in the episode Jerry caught one of the jurors violating the sequester order which was enough for the judge to later declare a mistrial and the series ended with Jerry escorting Larry out of jail with Larry telling Jerry, “this is how we should have ended the finale,” with Jerry throwing up his hands in disbelief and responding, “how did we not think of that?”
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