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Once again a blog I wrote on the side.  No buyers so here it is……. 

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry King got into a bit of verbal tiff on King’s show recently.  King asked Seinfeld about the end of his show, Seinfeld, by saying “You gave it up, right?  They didn’t cancel you, you cancelled them.”  Seinfeld responded in characteristic Seinfeld manner by donning a smirk and sarcastically answering back after a brief, playfully insulted pause, “You’re not aware of this?  You think I got cancelled?  Are you under the impression I got cancelled?”  A few moments later, Seinfeld hilariously asks King with his patented rising voice, “I was the number one show on television, Larry.  Do you know who I am?”

            There are moments in this brief clip where Jerry Seinfeld and Larry King both seem to be irritated by each other, but only briefly and in passing.  For Seinfeld (and Seinfeld) fans, this is a very funny clip.  Those who are in the know are aware that Seinfeld is making fun and not actually insulting King (“Can we get a resume in here for me, for Larry to go over?”) nor is Seinfeld actually insulted.  He takes King’s comments in good spirits, laughing before he says, “75 million viewers, last episode,” and both Jerry Seinfeld and Larry King are able to laugh about it.  Larry King fans may see it otherwise, but anyone who has watched Seinfeld more than a handful of times knows when, and how, to take Seinfeld serious.  A casual Seinfeld viewer may not see it this way, they may see a man who no longer in the spotlight and insulted at the discredit to his career.  This is absolutely not true.  Just look for the smirk and you know when to take Seinfeld serious.  This little squabble between Jerry Seinfeld and Larry King is nothing more than playful banter from a very funny comedian done in his most characteristic way.

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