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Situation Comedy: Characters
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NBC asked Seinfeld and Larry David, another comic and friend of Jerry's, to create the situation comedy The Seinfeld Chronicles in 1989. The name of the show was later changed to Seinfeld and other changes were made as the first effort was not doing too well in the ratings. The addition of a female character, Elaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as Seinfeld's ex-girlfriend and now friend, helped make the show a success.
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A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television, as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace.
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Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the character Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld, offers a three-hour "reality tour" of Manhattan landmarks that figure in the creation of the popular situation comedy. This "romp through what's factual and fantasy in the world of Seinfeld" extends and complicates the series' blurring of the boundaries between actuality and fiction.
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The comic relief character usually exhibits eccentric personality traits and unusual reactions to commonplace situations and sometimes serves as the protagonist of the situation comedy series. This character's strange attitudes and reactions to events provide opportunities for absurd or unexpected humour.
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