{"id":98,"date":"2009-01-21T16:58:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=98"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:03:29","slug":"great-lines-george-shapiro-talks-about-the-end-of-seinfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/great-lines-george-shapiro-talks-about-the-end-of-seinfeld\/98\/","title":{"rendered":"George Shapiro Talks About The End of <em>Seinfeld<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-98-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/georgeshapiro.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/georgeshapiro.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/georgeshapiro.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>George Shapiro<\/strong>: Jack Welch and Bob Wright really wanted a tenth year.\u00a0 And we had a meeting with Howard West and myself and Jerry and Bob Wright and Jack Welch, you know, he was the chairman of General Electric. Like the biggest entrepreneur in the world. And we had this breakfast on the thirty-eighth floor overlooking Central Park; we had engraved, you know, menus. And Jack Welch was there \u2013 he was pitching Jerry, it was just the opposite. He had charts, \u201cLook how it went up, it went way past \u2018Home Improvement\u2019, all the shows \u2013 it\u2019s still growing in its ninth year.\u201d And he wrote on a little piece of paper, you know, what he was offering Jerry. And he handed it to Jerry and \u2013 whew! Do you want to know what it was?\u00a0 Okay, because I think it\u2019s been out already. It was five million an episode for twenty-two episodes. To do the tenth year. And Jerry said, \u201clet\u2019s talk.\u201d You know, we went for a walk. Howard, Jerry and I went for a walk in Central Park, and we sat down on the bench on eight-first street and Central Park West, the same bench where he told his father he wanted to be a comedian. 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