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Discuss “Seinfeld on Saturday”

What would you do if you were offered $5 million to make a 30-minute television episode? If you answered “Walk away,” then you and Jerry Seinfeld are thinking on the same level. In 1998, Seinfeld, one of the most popular sitcoms in American television history, was so big that NBC offered Seinfeld $5 million per episode if he did a 10th season. He turned it down and made that year the show’s last.

Since then, Seinfeld has remained relatively active on the comedy circuit, releasing an immensely popular and side-splittingly funny standup album, I’m Telling You For The Last Time. He has also appeared on TV, including a cameo on Saturday Night Live when Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who played Elaine on Seinfeld) was hosting. Additionally, Seinfeld...

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