Jerry Seinfeld did his second AMA on Reddit in six months. He answered a number of people's questions, but the one that will get most fans talking is this exchange:
PolestarX: Jerry, any word on "Seinfeld" coming to Netflix? Can you please convince Larry to let it happen? There are so many people who still have not experienced Seinfeld first hand and having it available through Netflix will surely be the easiest way.
Seinfeld: You are a very smart and progressive person. These conversations are presently taking place.
So there is confirmation that the nine seasons of "Seinfeld" may soon make it to the streaming service. There were other interesting questions from users that Seinfeld answered. Here are 10 highlights from his most recent AMA:
1. Muted_Post-Horn: What's the WORST advice you hear being given to aspiring comedians?
Seinfeld: The worst advice is, you know, you have to do more to promote yourself. That's the worst advice. The best advice is to do your work, and you won't have to worry about anything else.
2. The_Maddest_Man: How did you react when you found out Steven Spielberg would watch episodes of "Seinfeld" to cheer himself up after getting depressed while filming "Schindler's List"?
Seinfeld: That was really one of the great moments in the history of the show for us when we heard that. We really felt like we were doing something worthwhile.
3. globochememployee: Who is your dream guest for "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" (living or dead)?
Seinfeld: I guess it would have to be George Carlin, since he was one of the most iconic comedians and I did have a relationship with him and we would have had a great time.
4. twinmum: Was Ricky Gervais genuinely scared/scarred when he was on "Comedian in Cars Getting Coffee"?
Seinfeld: Yes, he was absolutely genuinely terrified by that car. I took him for a drive in an Austin Healey 3000, which is a very unsafe old car, and he did not like it. It was one of my first episodes but it's a classic, because he kept asking me -- and the more scared he got, the more it made me laugh, and it's a good one.
5. bnnyblncofromdabronx: What is your most memorable scene from "Seinfeld" that had to be re-shot the most because everybody kept laughing?
Seinfeld: When Frank Costanza, George's father, said to Elaine "Do you want a piece of me?" when he thought that she wanted to have a fistfight. That one, we had to do over and over because nobody could stop laughing. Every time Jerry Stiller would say "Do you want a piece of me?" we had to stop.
6. Nanteitandaro: If you could meet yourself before all of this started and give yourself some advice about the business and general lifestyle that you now have, What would it be?
Seinfeld: I would say the advice I would give myself, or any young person, would be "Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success."
7. nittingshickdipples: Hi Jerry, what was the lowest point of your career? Physical, emotional, mental, financial...?
Seinfeld: There were a couple of times when I definitely thought that everything had completely come to a halt. At one point, in the early 80s, I got a part on a sitcom called "Benson." And I was on the show for 3 episodes, and then I got fired. And I thought that would be the only break I was ever going to get. It was just a youthful lack of perspective. But at the time, I thought that was it. But it really ended up making me really get into being a much better standup comedian so that I wouldn't be dependent on other people. It ended up being a good thing. The best things in my life have been the bad things that taught me stuff.
8. What was it that made you laugh the hardest that you can remember?
Seinfeld: Larry and I used to have gigantic laughs writing the show, and I remember one of the first times -- when Newman had to take the stand in a courtroom scene, and I believe Kramer cross-examines him, we laughed pretty hard writing that. And I also remember writing the last speech of the marine biologist, where George tells the story of finding the golf ball in the blowhole of the whale. That was a really, really long hard laugh when we wrote that.
9. UberBueno: When was the first moment you realized comedy was your passion?
Seinfeld: That's a good question. Probably when I was a little kid in like 7th or 8th grade, and I was watching "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In," and I started watching it with a pad & pen to write down the jokes that I liked. And then I would memorize them to do in school the next day. That's when I knew I was little more into it than most people.
10. DaJinks: What was your favorite episode to work on and were you surprised by how Festivus has become a official holiday of sorts a after "Seinfeld"?
Seinfeld: Truthfully, I loved working on every episode, we just had the best time and got along great, and there were a number of years when the show wasn't successful and we still loved it. And I was very surprised by Festivus catching on, but I think people just like the line rhyming Festivus with "rest of us" is 90% of it. And no presents, and you don't have to buy decorations, it's just an aluminum pole.
Any Netflix deal for "Seinfeld" may be a long way off, but you can always watch the classic reruns again and again and again on the half dozen networks they air on daily.
