Method Acting To The Madness: What You Need To Know Before You Make Your Big Debut
You know who can't act: Jerry Seinfeld.
He never could, but he built a prosperous professional career as a funny man turned sit-com star in Seinfeld for a good nine seasons.
Putting aside the undeniable fact that he, alongside Larry David, was the creative master behind the long-running TV show, he wasn't an actor. A voice-over actor, perhaps. But never a major, legitimate 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.
Try to envisage if he could act. Try and imagine he was as perfect as his cockamamie wacky neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards), his inconsiderate ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), or his neurotic and gutless school friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander).
Or his plump postman nemesis, Newman (Wayne Knight).
In actual fact come to think about it, it's possibly better that he never went to acting school since the success of the show ultimately hinged on Jerry Seinfeld the comic writing the jokes and his friends and foes bringing them to life around him.
So I guess here lies some method to the acting madness.
But unlike Shakespeare's Hamlet, Seinfeld did not exactly meet an unfortunate 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 jail.
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 Tv show based on marriage and relationship guidance, and at last returned to the stand up comedy stage to great acclaim - and with new material!
I suspect the key to his success is a thespian method known as Method Acting, in which the actor fundamentally never beaks from the role. Which was a no-brainer for Seinfeld, because he was forever playing himself - a funny man perpetually in the power of his audience and with a permanent Get Out Of Fail Card - and never a true actor playing a 'role'.
So all he had to do was turn up, crack some jokes and be himself for 22 minutes an episode and before he knew it, he had worldwide fame, countless industry accolades and royalty payments the Queen of Britain would be jealous of.
And all since he couldn't act.
He never could, but he built a prosperous professional career as a funny man turned sit-com star in Seinfeld for a good nine seasons.
Putting aside the undeniable fact that he, alongside Larry David, was the creative master behind the long-running TV show, he wasn't an actor. A voice-over actor, perhaps. But never a major, legitimate 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.
Try to envisage if he could act. Try and imagine he was as perfect as his cockamamie wacky neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards), his inconsiderate ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), or his neurotic and gutless school friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander).
Or his plump postman nemesis, Newman (Wayne Knight).
In actual fact come to think about it, it's possibly better that he never went to acting school since the success of the show ultimately hinged on Jerry Seinfeld the comic writing the jokes and his friends and foes bringing them to life around him.
So I guess here lies some method to the acting madness.
But unlike Shakespeare's Hamlet, Seinfeld did not exactly meet an unfortunate 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 jail.
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 Tv show based on marriage and relationship guidance, and at last returned to the stand up comedy stage to great acclaim - and with new material!
I suspect the key to his success is a thespian method known as Method Acting, in which the actor fundamentally never beaks from the role. Which was a no-brainer for Seinfeld, because he was forever playing himself - a funny man perpetually in the power of his audience and with a permanent Get Out Of Fail Card - and never a true actor playing a 'role'.
So all he had to do was turn up, crack some jokes and be himself for 22 minutes an episode and before he knew it, he had worldwide fame, countless industry accolades and royalty payments the Queen of Britain would be jealous of.
And all since he couldn't act.
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