Seinfeld back on our screens...(definitley) maybe

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Well its just about the 4th anniversary since we last saw Jerry appear on our TV screens with the finale of Seinfeld after 9 memorable seasons. However, the wait might be over soon with ABC rumoured to have signed Jerry up to star in a series adaption of the "Letters from a Nut" books by Ted L. Nancy (rumoured to be a pseudonym for Jerry himself- although he denies it )

All we can do is keep our fingers crossed and hope it all comes to fruition.

ABC snags Seinfeld sitcom . . . maybe
Calgary Herald
Saturday, June 01, 2002
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/story.asp?id={940C6661-9560-4E23-A335-F0DAD8B1C64C}

ABC confirmed that it has cut a deal to make a pilot for a comedy series based on the "Letters From a Nut" books -- collections of sophomoric letters written to corporate bigwigs, politicians, celebrities and others easily skewered, and the targets' equally ridiculous responses.

The three "Nut" books -- "Letters From a Nut," "More Letters From a Nut" and "Extra Nutty! Even More Letters From a Nut" were written by one Ted L. Nancy, who is described on the jacket of one of the books only as "a citizen" in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Each book has an introduction by Jerry Seinfeld, a fact ABC noted in the first sentence of its news release announcing the deal.

It is widely thought that Nancy is Seinfeld. Various reporters who have tried to track down Nancy since the first book was published in 1997 have located only a post office box.

Though Seinfeld has repeatedly denied being the pseudonymous author, he also claims that he, for no financial gain, got the letters published. He says he found them on a friend's coffee table while watching the Jerry Lewis Labour Day Telethon in 1995, an explanation that sounds suspiciously like a rejected storyline from a Seinfeld script.

And Seinfeld has compared his relationship with Nancy to that of Clark Kent and Superman.

And during the pitch meeting at ABC, network senior vice-president Andrea Wong confirmed, Seinfeld was present.

And Ted Nancy?

"Oh yeah, and Ted Nancy, I guess," she added.

But Wong insisted that Seinfeld has no commitment to the show and attended the meeting only because he's "very supportive of the project" and a pal of one of the executive producers, Barry Marder. Which is about as silly as a Ted Nancy letter.

ABC says Nancy will be one of the show's executive producers. But Marder, not Nancy, is writing the pilot script.

Among Nancy's published letters was one he wrote to the Baseball Hall of Fame asking if it was interested in Mickey Mantle's toenail clippings. He wrote a Vegas casino asking if he could gamble there dressed in his lucky shrimp costume, asked the Coca-Cola Co. if he could market a beverage called Kiet Doke, and wrote to the Los Angeles Lakers asking if he could attend games in pants that had the back seat cut out for medical reasons. They all responded: yes, no, no, yes, respectively.

ABC says each episode of the new show will open with the voice of the real Nancy composing a new letter, though viewers will never see him. Nancy's "lovable, idiotic friends and relatives," whom the real Nancy -- assuming you believe there is a real Nancy, which we don't -- will send out into the world to see what responses his letters have elicited, will be cast actors, the network acknowledged.

Clintons Cat

this "leters of a nut" sounds a lot like the "Henry Root Letters".

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Yeh I've heard of them alright.

My first inclination was to compare them to a book published a few years back here in Ireland. I cant remeber the exact name but it was along the lines of "Dear Sir" and it had all these hillarious letters written to Public Bodies in Ireland over the year with all manner of complaints etc.
I know my Aunt has the book- I'll see if i can find the name of it

sceptre

It was something like the Dear John letters or something like that. There was a second one, in the form of a diary which I have here somewhere. My favourite was the one where he tried to open an account with the Bundesbank (all the letters had a fiver enclosed)

Kix

Yeah. The fiver was the icing on the cake there. I was very interesting to see who kept the fiver and who returned it. I'm sure my mother has a copy of the book at home. It's a very good laugh.

K

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Re: Dear John...The John MacKay Letters

AHHAAH
I found it on the bottom of a bookshelf in my Aunts house yesterday. Well, all I can say its hillarious- I spent about 2 hours reading it last night.
Its published by Blackwater Press and if its still available I highly
recommend obtaining a copy.

For cover shot...see attached

smuckers

if you got the Sunday Times Today you probably saw the article in it regarding Letters From A Nut, I've posted 2 of his letters on the other baord.

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Really...
what section of the sunday times was it in??

smuckers

the main section in the last few pages

smuckers

Sorry, the world news section

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Feck...
Looks I've thrown it out

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I'm trawling the net for extracts anyway so I'll let ya know how I get on. I'll wait til I get to the States before I buy the books but still dont fancy having to scan them in !

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HOT of the press...Speculation is rife

Is Jerry the joker?
Wednesday July 3, 2002 The Guardian

Seinfeld is behind a series of prank letters sent to hotels and celebrities. Or so Hunter S Thompson thinks - and he's not laughing, reports Oliver Burkeman

Full Article available here...

ScabbyLeg

Hi people, just stumbled onto this Seinfeld forum..

I just thought I'd add a link to a similar story that was in the Sunday Business Post last Sunday, that maybe (?) you've read already... I hadn't heard anything about the letters or the connection with Ted L. Nancy.
The article basically portrays Jerry as a recluse, refusing to give interviews of sign autographs.

http://www.sbpost.ie/story.jsp?story=WCContent;id-50512

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Thanks for that Scabby
I hadn't seen it.

It prolly quite reflective of Jerry's attitude and life today. I suppose thats what money does to ya

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