The episode where George tells off his boss, then realizes later that he can’t find another job so he goes back to work and pretends nothing happened is something that actually happened to Larry David at SNL. He quit in protest, then showed up 3 days later like nothing had happened.
What other stories from the show are based on David’s real life experiences?
I read once that Jason Alexander was reading some dialogue from Seinfeld and said ‘there is no way a person would say that in real life’, then David said ‘what do you mean, I did that once’.
I heard that Kramer’s “Peterman Reality Tour” was a poke at a real person (Kenny Kramer) who came out of the woodwork and claimed that the character of Kramer was based on them. Supposedly, he was right. I guess that’s more of a meta joke and not as much of a “thing Larry David did,” though.
You’ve got your cause and effect backwards. Kramer was in fact based on Kenny Kramer, who started a bus tour of Seinfeld-related locations in New York City. The (real) bus tour was parodied when (TV) Kramer then created the J. Peterman tour.
No, I think they’re both wrong and the bus tour was based on Kenny Kramer who started a bus tour of Seinfeld locations in New York, not based on the guy who started a bus tour of Seinfeld locations in New York whose name is Kenny Kramer.
The Jacket where Lawrence Tierney plays Elaine’s father was directly based on Larry’s experience while dating the daughter of author Richard Yates. Yates was as intimidating as Mr. Benes and an actual suede jacket was ruined by snow.
I’ve read that Alton Benes was supposed to be a recurring character, except that Lawrence Tierney stole a knife from the knife block from Jerry’s apartment set and was terrorizing cast members with it, and nobody wanted him back!
