Jer interview in DVD

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Jerry Seinfeld talks about Comedian and Sein on DVD.

http://www.videopremiereawards.com/HTMLNews/NewsQASeinfeld.html

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Cheers Ciaran.

Interesting reading to say the least. I still think it could be a good while though, although its promising to hear that he is talking specifically what might be included like outakes etc. that only a very few peeps have ever seen. Cooool

DVDX: Now that you've signed your second major syndication deal for Seinfeld, the series, what's happening with the series coming to DVD? That has to be the most requested, or one of the most requested series for DVD.

Seinfeld: Yeah, I know. Wherever I perform, sometimes at the end of the show I take questions from the audience, and that always comes up. Always. They all want the DVD. I don't know why. It's on every day. But people like to own things, I guess.

I've heard some talk of it. It's really one of those things that, I'm not participating in that decision.

DVDX: Oh really?

Seinfeld: No. It's a distribution decision. But I'm hearing that it's in the air. They're definitely considering it.

DVDX: Castle Rock and Columbia TriStar?

Seinfeld: Yeah. Well, Sony owns the whole thing now.

DVDX: Is there anything you know that might be delaying it at all like rights or talent fees or anything?

Seinfeld: No, well actually, one of the things is trying to find outtakes and gag reels and stuff that we wanted to include. That has been a problem. Nobody seems to really know where that is. It's so funny. Things you never would think of when you're making a show, when you cut a scene, that you're gonna want that 10 years later. You know, it never would cross your mind. We had no such notions back then.

DVDX: Are you participating creatively or as a consultant in what the series might look like on DVD?

Seinfeld: Yes.

DVDX: Can you give us any ideas of some of the things you're kicking around for extras?

Seinfeld: Um, interviews with who, by who. You know, cast members and writers, and who we would want the commentary from. And, the other things I mentioned. What kinds of outtakes do we have? What should we use?

You know, in all the years of the show, NBC had wanted to play some of our outtakes. We had some pretty funny outtakes. And we always kind of made it a policy not to do that because we didn't like that thing when actors kind of crack up and… We kind of wanted to maintain the reality of the show. But we're dicussing that.

And, the other thing we have that's very funny are these gag reels that we made at the end of the season each year. There's a lot of funny stuff on those.