For years people have assumed that comedian Jerry Seinfeld is the "nut" from the Letters From a Nut book series, but Seinfeld appeared on NBC's The Today Show on Sept. 24 to set the record straight, reports The Huffington Post. Seinfeld and fellow funnyman Barry Marder sat down with The Today Show's Matt Lauer to chat about the bestselling book series, by Ted L. Nancy. Ted L. Nancy is rumored to be pen name of Jerry Seinfeld, and Seinfeld has penned the forwards to the some of the books, fueling speculation, when in fact, Barry Marder is the real Ted L. Nancy!
A frequent contributor to Seinfeld's iconic eponymous sitcom, Marder wrote the off-the-wall Nancy letters. The letters are a series of outrageous complaints to major corporations. One letter, for example, sees Nancy writing to a hotel in Maine to inquire about his "rubber gorilla feet," which he swears he left in the men's bathroom of the hotel. On The Today Show, Seinfeld said that the pair of comedians decided to come clean about the true identity of Nancy because, "People started trying to take credit for who was doing it."
He may not be Ted L. Nancy, but Jerry Seinfeld certainly doesn't need to add anything to his resume! The comic and star of his own long-running (now syndicated) sitcom Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld has been trying his hand at directing as of late. In August, Seinfeld directed his friend, fellow comedian and Saturday Night Live album Colin Quinn in Long Story Short. The one-man, off-Broadway show sees Quinn looking at the ups and downs of "great civilizations gone wrong," reports Playbill.
NBC's The Marriage Ref is another one of Seinfeld's behind-the-scenes jobs. Seinfeld executively produced the show, which sees couples showcase their arguments on television, with the "marriage ref" deciding whose side of the argument is the right one. Seinfeld has been married to wife Jessica for more than 10 years, and actually came up for the idea for The Marriage Ref during an argument with Jessica-which occurred while the couple was dining out with friends. Jerry and Jessica asked their friends to pick a side and the idea for the show was born.
With so much on his plate and so much success with Seinfeld and in stand-up in his past, it is no surprise that Jerry Seinfeld made Forbes' "Billionaires in the Making" list. Along with golfer Tiger Woods, rapper Jay-Z, basketball star Michael Jordan and actor/comedian Tyler Perry, Seinfeld is among those predicted to have a ten digit fortune in the future. Forbes reports that Seinfeld's signature sitcom about nothing raked in a whopping $800 million. That's a whole lot of nothing!
Back in 1987, Jerry Seinfeld never would have predicted his network television success. Blog Talk Radio reports that Seinfeld, then 33, told Milling About host Robin Milling that he had no interest in having his own television show, saying, "No. Not unless it was by some very-quality people. A Cheers type of situation or something like that." Also during the interview, which took place at his studio apartment on Manhattan's Upper West side (which would later become the model for his Seinfeld apartment), he spoke about his future aspirations, saying, "I don't really have any. I just want to get good at this." From the sale of Jerry Seinfeld tickets to see him live, he seems to have succeeded.
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