{"id":799582,"date":"2026-05-16T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:33:14","slug":"jerry-seinfeld-jokes-that-friends-copied-seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799582\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Seinfeld Jokes That \u2018Friends\u2019 Copied \u2018Seinfeld\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Netflix<\/a> Is A Joke festival last week, Jerry Seinfeld quipped that NBC recreated his eponymous TV series with \u201cgood-looking people\u201d to launch the uber-popular \u201990s sitcom \u201cFriends<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeinfeld\u201d premiered on NBC in 1989; \u201cFriends\u201d premiered in 1994 on the same network. Both series follow single friends living in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think NBC was watching my show and went, \u2018Hey, this is working pretty well,\u2019\u201d Seinfeld said, according to Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201d\u2018Why don\u2019t we try the same thing with good-looking people?\u2019 And that was a pretty good idea. I think that kind of worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seinfeld, who was talking to \u201cSeinfeld\u201d co-creator Larry David and \u201cRushmore Podcast\u201d host Ben Persky, also revealed his top episodes of the show: \u201cThe Contest,\u201d \u201cThe Soup Nazi,\u201d \u201cThe Merv Griffin Show\u201d and \u201cThe Marine Biologist.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time \u201cFriends\u201d and \u201cSeinfeld\u201d have made headlines together.<\/p>\n

In a 2022 interview<\/a> with The Daily Beast, \u201cFriends\u201d star Lisa Kudrow credited \u201cSeinfeld\u201d for helping the show reach bigger audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first season, our ratings were just fine,\u201d Kudrow said, explaining that it wasn\u2019t until \u201cwhen we were in reruns after \u2018Seinfeld,\u2019 where \u2018Seinfeld\u2019 was our lead-in, where we exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember going to some party and Jerry Seinfeld was there, and I said, \u2018Hi,\u2019 and he said, \u2018You\u2019re welcome,\u2019\u201d Kudrow continued. \u201cI said, \u2018Why, thank you\u2026 What?\u2019\u201d And he said, \u2018You\u2019re on after us in the summer, and you\u2019re welcome.\u2019 And I said, \u2018That\u2019s exactly right. Thank you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Netflix Is A Joke festival last week, Jerry Seinfeld quipped that NBC recreated his eponymous TV…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,72413,118172,1030,49997,399,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-799582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-friends","tag-jerry-seinfeld","tag-nbc","tag-seinfeld","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581919050531617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}