![]() ![]() Channel-surfing is almost redundant, the scenes click by so fast. Instead of having a single story line, “Seinfeld” is built with small blocks of oddball incidents which eventually interlock. ![]() It does boast an ingenious modular design. His series, co-created by Larry David, prides itself on being about “nothing.” Zero concept, zero content. As in: “D’ja ever notice how one sock droops before the other one does? Why is that?” Here is a man who could do ten minutes on lint. Seinfeld has always been one of those sedate, drip-dry doodlers, the type known in the trade as an “observational” comic-a D’ja-ever-notice? guy. Unlike such Jewish bad-boy bathroom-graffiti artists as Lenny Bruce, Andrew “Dice” Clay, and Howard Stern, he doesn’t hurl hot gobs of shock material at the audience. Seinfeld himself is a walking diagram of minor quirks. “Right now cute Jewish is ‘in,’ ” Tom Snyder commented one night on his CNBC talk show, to explain the popularity of “Seinfeld.” The NBC sitcom, which stars the standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld, does make little cricket noises. ![]()
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