Seinfeld has said that he was not told he had been fired until he turned up for the read-through session for an episode and found that there was no script for him. Seinfeld was abruptly fired from the show due to creative differences. In 1980, he had a small recurring role on the sitcom Benson, playing Frankie, a mail-delivery boy who had comedy routines that no one wanted to hear. After graduation in 1976, he tried out at an open-mic night at New York City's Catch a Rising Star, which led to an appearance in a Rodney Dangerfield HBO special. He appeared on open-mic nights at Budd Friedman's Improv Club while attending Queens College. Seinfeld developed an interest in stand-up comedy after brief stints in college productions. He attended the State University of New York at Oswego, and he transferred after his second year to Queens College, City University of New York, where he graduated in 1976 with a degree in communications and theater. At 16, he spent time volunteering in Kibbutz Sa'ar in Israel. Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa, New York, and attended Massapequa High School on Long Island. Seinfeld's second cousin is musician and actor Evan Seinfeld. Salha's mother Garez Dayan, Seinfeld's great-grandmother, was a member of the Dayan rabbinic family, who allege ancestry back to the Medieval Exilarchs, and from the Exilarchs back to the Biblical King David. Their nationality was stated as Turkish when they immigrated in 1917, as Syria was under the Ottoman Empire. His mother, Betty (née Hosni ) and her parents, Selim and Salha Hosni, were Jews from Aleppo, Syria. His father, sign painter Kálmán Seinfeld, was Jewish and collected jokes that he heard while serving in World War II. Seinfeld has received twenty Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on Seinfeld and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as well as four Grammy Award nominations for his comedy albums. He is married to author and philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, with whom he has three children.
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Seinfeld is the creator and host of the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019). In 2010, he premiered a reality series called The Marriage Ref, which aired for two seasons on NBC. Seinfeld produced, co-wrote, and starred in the 2007 film Bee Movie, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. In 2004, Comedy Central named him the 12th-greatest stand-up comedian of all time. As a stand-up comedian, Seinfeld specializes in observational comedy. The show aired on NBC from 1989 until 1998, becoming one of the most acclaimed and popular sitcoms of all time. He is best known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he created and wrote with Larry David. Jerome Allen Seinfeld ( / ˈ s aɪ n f ɛ l d/ SYNE-feld born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.
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