None of us were like, “Gee, I hope this hits,” or “I hope this was as good as our last show.” No way. “The Contest,” when we were at the table, we knew that was a winner. Luckily, it did air, despite Warren Littlefield, former president of NBC, saying the broadcast standards executive who was there during a reading of the script, was like, “What the fuck?”Īs for one of the best scenes in the episode, Michael Richards says knew it was going to be great… But he was all for it.ĭavid also said the he had decided that if NBC balked he was going to quit the show. So it took me a couple years, you know, to even mention it to Jerry because it didn’t even occur to me that it was a possibility. the real Kramer: I wasn’t in because I knew I would never win it.ĭavid: By the way, was in my notebook for some time and I never even mentioned it to Jerry because I didn’t think there was any way that he would want to do it, and I didn’t think there was any way the show actually could get done on the network. Kenny Kramer, friend of Larry David, a.k.a. I just remember it didn’t last very long. There must have been some money involved. Should I mention his name? I don’t even know - my friend Frank Piazza. I would say there was only one other person involved. Larry David, writer of “The Contest”: I can’t believe I have to discuss this at my ripe age. shaving.ĮLAINE: Oh, that is such bologna. JERRY: It’s easier for a woman not to do it than a man. JERRY: You’ll be out before we get the check. Who that saw the show will ever forget exchanges like this? Which, in turn, probably made the episode, which originally aired on November 18, 1992, even funnier as Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer used euphemism after euphemism including the still oft-used phrase “master of my domain.” Never mind the fact that Larry David won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Comedy Series for the episode, NBC didn’t think that masturbation was an appropriate topic for prime time television. Hard to believe, but the Seinfeld episode “The Contest” which TV Guide ranked #1 on its 2009 list of “100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time” was once considered to be controversial.
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