COMEDY CLUB.(Jerry Seinfeld: a film 'Comedian,' and his influene on the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' TV show)

In 1989, Jerry Seinfeld, then a standup comedian, signed on with NBC to star in a sitcom about Jerry Seinfeld, a standup comedian, and his small group of captious fictional friends. "Seinfeld" was famously said to be about nothing, and, indeed, the characters' problems were none, or few; still, for nine seasons the friends--George, Elaine, and Kramer--kept themselves perpetually annoyed. Jerry, too, got bothered, but, as an apparently moodless man, he seemed to have a hard time staying upset, and his unsteady love life (every woman was weird) and his steady work (life is weird) put him out of pain's reach. He tempered his friends' complaints, mostly by laughing at them. ...