Jerry Seinfeld may be best known for his eponymous sitcom, which is famously about nothing, but the comedian is slated to make his directorial debut with a show about something, reports the National Post. The news that Seinfeld will direct his friend, comedian and Saturday Night Live album Colin Quinn, in an off-Broadway one-man show called Long Story Short arrived one day after Seinfeld celebrated the 20th anniversary of his famous sitcom.

Long Story Short will play a limited engagement at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York City for eight weeks in August and is Quinn’s comedic covering of over 2,000 years of civilization in a mere 75 minutes.

Seinfeld may have gone off the air in 1998, but that doesn’t mean that Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander), Elaine Benes (played by Julia-Louis Dreyfus) and Cosmo Kramer (played by Michael Richards) don’t continue to invade living rooms across the globe each day, as the sitcom is one of the most heavily syndicated programs on television. BlackBook.com reports that, according to Movieline, recent Time Warner investor reports stated that Seinfeld has earned a figure in the neighborhood of 2.7 billion dollars from cable and regular TV re-runs since 1998. If you do the math, that means that each of the series’ 180 episodes rakes in a whopping $14 million.

Pop culture lore says that Jerry Seinfeld and show co-creator Larry David dreamt up Seinfeld-which was originally titled Kamagra Gold The Seinfeld Chronicles-while hanging out at comedy club Catch A Rising Star in 1988. After absentmindedly joking about saran wrap, the pair of comedians decided to create an entire series about their signature casual, quirky banter. Since the end of his sitcom, Seinfeld appeared in his own documentary (chronicling his return to the stand-up comedy circuit) and appeared on Larry David’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Jerry Seinfeld went behind the scenes prescription cialis online in the producer’s chair for his new show on NBC, The Marriage Ref. Seinfeld told the Los Angeles Times that he cooked up the idea for The Marriage Ref after he and wife Jessica got into an argument while having dinner with a friend. The couple asked their friend to listen to each side of the argument and pick a side, thus the idea for The Marriage Ref was born.

Describing the show on NBC’s official website, Seinfeld said, “After 10 years of marriage, I realized the comedic potential of this topic is quite rich. This is the way marriage should be; everybody needs a ref. I wanted to bring the sports simplicity to your complicated, endlessly difficult personal life.” The Marriage Ref was picked up for its second season on NBC.

Although Jerry Seinfeld made a lone cameo onscreen on NBC’s The Marriage Ref, the comedian’s many fans know that nothing compares to seeing his standup routine. Get Jerry Seinfeld tickets to see the comedian deliver his hilarious routine in cities scattered across the States online.

This summer, Jerry Seinfeld will be stopping in cities like Reading, Pa.; Atlantic City, N.J.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Hamilton, ON; Vancouver, BC and more.

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