Michael Richards Doesn't Watch Seinfeld Reruns

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Richards finds watching Seinfeld reruns 'painful'

173 episodes of "Seinfeld" (per IMDb) were produced during the series' nine seasons, and Cosmo Kramer (Richards) was an integral part of the show's vaunted foursome of comedic actors. However, in 1997, Charlie Rose questioned Richards about the actor's reasoning behind not watching "Seinfeld" reruns, which Richards helped make so popular.

"I'm too busy probably brooding over what could have been done [in] the last show we just finished," Richards joked in an interview with Charlie Rose before providing a sincere answer. "It's painful for me to watch the show. I always see more that can be done, and then they're cut. You know, they cut them down." Richards also told Rose that the "Seinfeld" cast was notorious for running seven or eight minutes over almost every time Richards and company were busy working on set.

"I really just like to do it," Richards continued. "Move on to the next script." Richards and Rose shared a few laughs during the interview, and the actor who brought Jerry's loveable, grocery-stealing neighbor to life, reminisced about the rigors of shooting just a single episode of the sitcom. Richards explained that the cast gathered like clockwork on Mondays for table reads, and then he, Jerry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Jason Alexander spent the next five days busy with rewrites and shooting the show. "I hope this isn't boring," Richards told Rose, and the journalist assured him that his viewers loved the "behind-the-scenes" magic of "Seinfeld."

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I think most actors and actresses don't watch their previous work. Most people don't want to rest on their laurels per say or try to live in the past.

They get a job, do the job and then move on to the next one.