Jerry Seinfeld threw some shade at “Associates” throughout the 2026 Netflix Is a Joke Competition, saying the sequence was impressed by his personal iconic sitcom, “Seinfeld.”
The comic made the remark throughout his set on the Greek Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, throughout which he requested the viewers to guess what his favourite present of all time was, in line with the Hollywood Reporter.
When an viewers member shouted “Associates,” Seinfeld mentioned he had a concept concerning the comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.
“My present [‘Seinfled’] arrived – ’89, ’90. “Associates” got here a number of years later,” he famous.
“I believe NBC checked out my present and mentioned, ‘Hey, that is doing fairly properly. Why don’t we strive the identical factor with stunning individuals?’ And it was a very good thought,” he continued. “I believe it labored.”
“Seinfeld” — which starred the titular comic in addition to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander — premiered on NBC in 1989 and ran for 9 seasons.
“Associates” debuted in 1994 and aired for 10 seasons on NBC.
Each exhibits revolved round a bunch of shut pals dwelling in New York, though “Associates” centered on the story and characters whereas “Seinfeld” was dubbed a “present about nothing” by Seinfeld himself and his co-creator Larry David.
This is not the primary time Seinfeld has taken credit score for the success of “Associates.”
Kudrow instructed The Day by day Beast in 2022 that Seinfeld as soon as approached her at a celebration within the ’90s and mentioned “you are welcome” as a result of “Associates” was placed on NBC’s schedule proper after scores juggernaut “Seinfeld.”
Final month, Kudrow revealed that the solid of “Associates” was nonetheless receiving a whopping $20 million a 12 months from residuals, greater than twenty years after the hit sitcom led to 2004.
However she famous in the identical interview that their expertise filming wasn’t all the time optimistic and that “there have been undoubtedly some nasty issues occurring behind the scenes.”
“Bear in mind, we had been recording in entrance of an viewers of 400 individuals, and should you bought considered one of these writers’ traces unsuitable or did not get the reply excellent, they could say, ‘That bitch king cannot learn? She does not even strive. She screwed up my line,'” she recalled to The Occasions of London.
Kudrow additionally claimed that the writers’ room, made up principally of males, would “keep up late discussing their sexual fantasies” about Aniston and Cox. She recalled this era as “intense”.