Jerry On ‘Seinfeld’s’ ‘Curb’ Reunion: ‘This Was A Bit Of A Miracle’

It’s been 11 years since “Seinfeld,” then the No. 1 show on TV, went off the air – and according to Jerry himself, it took a “miracle” to bring the cast back together.

The sitcom’s original stars – Jerry, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards – finally reunited for “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” where they’ll join “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David in a number of episodes of his HBO comedy this season.

“Larry and I both felt like this was a bit of a miracle, the way this fell together,” Jerry told Entertainment Weekly. “The proof of it is that he — who had really designed the whole thing — had no idea that it would come out like this. He was very surprised. That was the coolest thing.”

The comedian said that he and his co-stars didn’t want to come back with a more traditional reunion special – and a possible bigger paycheck.

“I don’t think we really thought about that. If we were about the money we would have kept doing the show,” Jerry said. “We were about: ‘What would be the biggest treat for the audience?’ Doing it with Larry and on his show just seemed like the only possible way it would be fun.”

But diving back into the world of the “show about nothing,” which ran for nine seasons on NBC, was like second nature to Jerry.

“We did have this one scene that Larry and I wrote, as we always did, really fast. We were just boom, boom, boom, like a tennis game where you hadn’t lost any of your skills. We knew each other, we could read the lines. That was a lot of fun,” Jerry said.

And so was pulling out the old set of the show, which was recreated and updated for “Curb.”

“As I told people about it, I could go back in your life 10 years and recast your friends, recreate where you live, everything in it exactly how it was, and now somebody with a headset points at you and you walk in now, and there it was, and you go, ‘Jesus Christ, this is my old life!’” Jerry said. “We all felt like it was a very special experience. Just to go back in time in life is a fantasy.”

Still, 11 years later, Jerry doesn’t have any regrets about the show ending when it did.

“The thing I like is that the show sustained over time,” he concluded. “I’m more excited about the show now than I was then, because I see now that it’s taken on this other position in people’s minds. And I do think it relates to the way it ended, because it was kind of a portion control thing. You give people a certain amount — different amounts create different feelings — and I thought we had given them the right amount.”

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