Still making money from the show about nothing
The television show Seinfeld helped define American culture in the 1990s. Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong talks about her new book “Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything”
On the “Seinfeld” economy:
Yes, it is crazy, I mean that to me is what made it interesting enough for a book. The guy who inspired the Kramer character, so not the guy who played him, not the who was ever on television, the guy used to be Larry David’s neighbor, still gives bus tours of NYC sites in the show and makes his living that way. And my favorite, the soup Nazi, the guy who played the soup Nazi, which most people don’t realize he was in one episode, he still makes his living doing appearances as the soup Nazi, he tours the world signing soup ladles and saying ‘no soup for you’ to people and that’s it. He does this mainly because I guess he can handle it psychologically, he seems okay with it, but it’s crazy.
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