{"id":1315,"date":"2026-05-08T02:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jerry-seinfeld-claims-friends-copied-his-sitcom-seinfeld\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:27:20","slug":"jerry-seinfeld-claims-friends-copied-his-sitcom-seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/jerry-seinfeld-claims-friends-copied-his-sitcom-seinfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Seinfeld claims &#8216;Friends&#8217; copied his sitcom &#8216;Seinfeld&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127224448.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jerry Seinfeld thew a little shade at \u201cFriends\u201d during at the 2026 Netflix Is a Joke Festival, claiming the show was inspired by his own iconic sitcom, \u201cSeinfeld.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comedian made the comment during his set at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles Tuesday during a bit in which he asked the audience to guess what his all-time favorite show was, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/jerry-seinfeld-friends-nbc-good-looking-people-netflix-1236589389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per the Hollywood Reporter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When an audience member shouted out \u201cFriends,\u201d Seinfeld said he had a theory about the comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jerry Seinfeld (pictured here in October 2023) threw a little shade at \u201cFriends\u201d while performing at the\u00a0Netflix Is a Joke\u00a0Festival Tuesday. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Good+Foundation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Seinfeld theorized that \u201cFriends\u201d copied \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d but used \u201cgood-looking people.\u201d (The \u201cSeinfeld\u201d cast \u2014 including Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Seinfeld himself \u2014 is seen here in a promotional still.) <span class=\"credit\">NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMy show [\u2018Seinfled\u2019] came on \u2014 \u201989, \u201990.\u00a0\u2018Friends\u2019\u00a0came on a few years later,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think NBC was watching my show and went, \u2018Hey, this is working pretty well. Why don\u2019t we try the same thing with good-looking people?\u2019 And that was a pretty good idea,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think that kind of worked.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeinfeld\u201d \u2014 which starred the titular comedian as well as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander \u2014 premiered on NBC in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriends\u201d debuted in 1994 and aired for 10 seasons on NBC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cFriends\u201d debuted five years after \u201cSeinfeld\u201d in 1994 and also aired on NBC. (The cast, pictured here, included Lisa Kudrow, the late Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox and Matt LeBlanc.) <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9NBC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cSeinfeld\u201d (a still of which is seen above) lasted nine seasons, while \u201cFriends\u201d was on the air for 10 seasons. <span class=\"credit\">NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both shows revolved around a close group of friends living in New York City, though \u201cFriends\u201d was story and character-centric while \u201cSeinfeld\u201d was famously dubbed a \u201cshow about nothing\u201d by Seinfeld himself and co-creator Larry David.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Seinfeld has taken credit for the success of \u201cFriends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kudrow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/obsessed\/lisa-kudrow-is-ready-for-another-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the Daily Beast<\/a> in 2022 that Seinfeld once walked up to her at a party in the \u201990s and told her \u201cyou\u2019re welcome,\u201d as \u201cFriends\u201d had been put on NBC\u2019s schedule right after ratings juggernaut \u201cSeinfeld.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Both shows revolved around a close-knit group of friends living in New York City. (A still of \u201cFriends\u201d is seen here.) <span class=\"credit\">NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kudrow (pictured here center in a still with her co-stars) revealed last month that the \u201cFriends\u201d cast still makes $20 million a year in residuals more than 20 years after the show ended. <span class=\"credit\">NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, Kudrow revealed the \u201cFriends\u201d cast still <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/28\/entertainment\/lisa-kudrow-divulges-staggering-amount-friends-cast-still-makes-on-residuals\/\">gets a whopping $20 million a year from residuals<\/a>, more than two decades after the hit sitcom came to an end in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>But she noted in the same interview that their experience filming wasn\u2019t always positive, and that \u201cthere was definitely mean stuff going on behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers\u2019 lines or it didn\u2019t get the perfect response, they could be like, \u2018Can\u2019t the bitch f\u2013king read? She\u2019s not even trying. She f\u2013ed up my line,&#8217;\u201d she recalled to the Times of London.<\/p>\n<p>Kudrow also claimed that the writers\u2019 room, which was composed of mostly men, would \u201cbe up late <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/28\/entertainment\/lisa-kudrow-says-male-friends-writers-had-sexual-fantasies-about-co-stars\/\">discussing their sexual fantasies<\/a>\u201d about Aniston and Cox. She recalled the time as \u201cintense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/07\/entertainment\/jerry-seinfeld-claims-friends-copied-his-sitcom-seinfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Seinfeld thew a little shade at \u201cFriends\u201d during at the 2026 Netflix Is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127224448.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}