First aired in 1989, NBC’s Seinfeld followed the misadventures of friends living in New York – five years before a similarly successful sitcom Friends went on air. Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander have continued acting while recurring cast members like Bryan Cranston and Patrick Warburton also found success on hit shows. Here’s a then-and-now comparison of how far these celebs have come 35 years later.
1. Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld played the titular character and portrayed a semi-fictionalised version of his life as a stand-up comedian on the sitcom. Before that, he had a short-lived, recurring role as mail-delivery boy Frankie on the ABC sitcom Benson .
And he’s largely remained a comedy legend , returning to New York and his stand-up comedy roots when the show ended in 1998. He chronicled his post- Seinfeld tour in the Emmy-nominated 1998 HBO comedy special I’m Telling You for the Last Time . {"@context":"https://schema.
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com/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/05/24/5e902378-9c67-442f-b26b-b1d6eebcd77f_7390c88c.jpg"} Jerry Seinfeld went back to his comedy roots after the show Seinfeld ended. Photo: @jerryseinfeld/Instagram In 2012, he created the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which featured himself and high-profile guests like Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGen.