There are so many ways to serve coffee that Seinfeld is percolating with ideas.
Jerry Seinfeld is thinking about moving his Crackle series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee to television, cable or some kind of streaming service. The upstart digital series is already rivaling more traditional and accessible shows. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee was recently nominated for an Outstanding Variety Talk Series Emmy against ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS'The Late Late Show with James Corden, NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee is in its eighth season at Crackle and Seinfeld has spoken classic cars and cappuccino with a wide range of funny people, including most of his Emmy competition. From Jay Leno, through Will Ferrell, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin and the late Garry Shandling, to President Obama, the series is a real pick me up. So Jerry, who created the iconic 90s series Seinfeld, is pretty sure it can get picked up.
“We're talking to television and cable and streaming [outlets], and so there are a variety of forms that this show might take,” Seinfeld told The Hollywood Reporter. “Nothing is set yet. It's just conversations now, but there's been a lot of interest.
The consideration started when Seinfeld started looking for ways to release some of the material that had to be left out of the half-hour improvisational show.
“We're actually talking with some other platforms now about releasing the show in other forms with different material,” the observational comic told THR. “That's one of the fun things about this world I've fallen into: I can remake these shows into other things for other places. So some of the stuff on the cutting-room floor from all of the episodes could come out in the future.
The series is groundbreaking in much the same way as Jerry’s NBC series Seinfeld was. Both shows are really about nothing and a lot of people make much ado about nothing.
"I feel like Lewis and Clark here paddling down the river to find the new world, and I can't believe I've found it," Seinfeld observed.
“I used to worry: Is this really a show? Is anyone going to like this? Will anyone even watch this? So the process hasn't changed, I'm just more comfortable and confident now that I know this is something that people like. I didn't know that about Seinfeld in the early 1990s, either. I thought, ‘I like this show. I wonder if anyone else will.’ And it took years before people reacted to that.
"To be still in a world of trying to innovate at this stage of my career is thrilling,” he added.
Seinfeld also spoke about the thrill of having a very human interview with President Obama, who agreed to appear on the show because the opening line worked.
“My producer called someone on the White House staff, and they said they'd been wanting to get in touch with us because they were interested in him doing the show,” Seinfeld told THR. “I really didn't believe it was going to happen. My favorite moment was when I said to him, ‘When I call you, you answer the phone, 'White House,' I'll say, 'I'd like to speak with the president, please,' and then you say, 'Speaking.' He thought that was a great joke, so we started with that.”
Jerry would be open to making another appearance on Seinfeld’s co-creator Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
“Anything with Larry, I'm in,” Seinfeld said. “I talked to him last week, and he says it's going great. Can you think of another popular show that went away and then came back five years later with the same cast?”
But don’t hold your breath for a Seinfeld reunion.
“No,” Jerry confirmed “But we did have an offer — I won't say who from — to do a new, live episode of Seinfeld on TV.”
When asked if he would even consider it, Jerry just laughed “No.”
Seinfeld will also appear on season 3 of Morris S. Levy's hit web series Cop Show, which stars the ultimate New York City comedian Colin Quinn.
SOURCE: THR
