Thursday, June 10, 2010

The show about nothing ...

... makes more money than God did as a paperboy, even after more than a dozen years off the air. Like in the Billions-B-for-Boy-Billions...

From the NY Post:

Forget law school. Send your kids to comedy camp if you want them to support you in your old age.

"Seinfeld" might be the show about nothing, but it's also made an incredible $2.7 billion -- with a "b" -- since it went off the air 12 years ago, according to Time Warner, which owns the series.

That makes "Seinfeld" the most profitable 30 minutes in TV history.

It is rare that TV studios reveal the amounts made by their most successful TV series, but at an investors' conference late last month, execs spilled the beans about just what a moneymaker the show has been over the past 12 years.

Jerry Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David have an undisclosed ownership stake in the show that has paid them in the hundreds of millions for the reruns of the show.

Turns out that Seinfeld and David get the loot and the co-stars get bupkis.  Nicely done, lawyers.