Seinfeld - the making of a great and successfull comedy

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In the 1980s, Jerry Seinfeld was just another promising comic with a knack for wry observations, but the 90s made the co-creator and star of NBC's "Seinfeld", the most successful sitcom of all time, one of the richest men in entertainment. He nurtured a series that conventional wisdom thought sure to fail, a show celebrating the small conundrums of daily life, featuring a cast of four totally self-absorbed New York City characters that audiences should have despised but couldn't help loving. Just as inexplicably, he walked away from probably the fattest contract ever offered by a network (almost 30 millions per episode) while "Seinfeld" was still at the top of the ratings, but then he had never been in it for the bucks. Funny, not money, was what mattered to Seinfeld, so he broke countless hearts at NBC and got out before the show's inevitable slide could compromise his comedy. The actors selected to play in Jerry Seinfeld's show made all the money. Despite their faults (perhaps because of them) they're some of the most hilariously watchable characters in television history. All of them made from "the show about nothing" the sitcom about everything.