Craig Newmark: uncertainty

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…Why was Seinfeld so popular? I long have found it puzzling that people who don’t really know New York might even like the show. Sometimes they like it without understanding that some of the characters are in New York or perhaps might be Jewish. That always struck me as bizarre. I don’t know. I just felt that those characters were, in some respects, versions of me despite their exaggerated bad tendencies. Maybe that’s it. George Costanza, Jason Alexander, I’ve always felt is one especially attractive man—short, balding, kind of chubby, Jewish. I do see a lot of the Larry David coming through there. We see more Larry David on Curb, and I do like that a lot, even when I’m cringing. I think Curb Your Enthusiasm is funnier than Seinfeld. It’s more willing to be dark. Jerry is a character. I think he’s a good straight man in the old Abbott and Costello sense, but I don’t find him funny, in fact.…

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