You know who can’t act: Jerry Seinfeld.

He never could, but he seemed to make a lucrative living as a comic turned sit-com character in Seinfeld for 9 seasons.

Setting aside the fact that he, alongside Larry David, was the creative genius behind the lengthy television show, he was never an actor. A voice-over actor, maybe. But never a heavy, legit stage or screen presence.

But he did make it on the television screen. And make it good. Seinfeld still stands as one of the funniest television programs to ever come out of Hollywood.

Just think if he could act. Just imagine he was as rehearsed as his zany eccentric neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards), his egotistical ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), or his mental and spineless high school buddy George Costanza (Jason Alexander).

Or his portly postman arch-nemesis, Newman (Wayne Knight).

Actually , come to think of it, it’s doubtless better that he never attended acting college since the premise of the show crucially hinged on Jerry Seinfeld the comedian writing the material and his mates and enemies bringing them to life around him.

So I think therein lies some method to the acting insanity.

But unlike Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Seinfeld didn’t actually meet a sorry end.

Despite falling one year shy of a decade on American and world T.V. screens, Jerry Seinfeld’s career and popularity only gained speed after the show that bore his name finished with the quartet of egoistical New Yorkers standing trial and being duly found guilty as innocent bystanders.

And ending up in prison.

Ironically, from there, the careers of the already mentioned real actors never really took off after the series box sets hit the retail shelves in time for Xmas and Chanukah.

The New Adventures of Old Christine never really hit the comedic mark.

And that racial outburst in an Los Angeles comedy club wasn’t the sort of punch line we wanted to remember the charming Kramer by.

Maybe the sole saving grace was Wayne Knight’s role in Basic Instinct’s infamous interrogation scene – though you probably didn't even realize he was there.

But then there was Jerry. He caused some buzz with Bee Movie, produced a Reality Television show based primarily on wedding and relationship information, and eventually returned to the improv comedy stage to great regard – and with new material!

I believe the secret to his success is a thespian technique known as Method Acting, in which the actor basically never beaks out of character. Which was simple for Seinfeld, because he was always playing himself – a comedian, always at the beck and call of his audience and with an abiding Get Out Of Fail Card – and never a genuine actor playing a ‘role’.

So all he actually had to do was get to wardrobe, re-hash some bits and be himself for 22 minutes an episode and before he knew it, he had worldwide acclaim, many industry endorsements and royalties that the Queen of Brittania would be covetous of.

And all this because he could not even act.

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