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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
2012 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 11 seasons
Created by Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up best when he says, 'You've finally made a show about nothing.'
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I agree with this entirely, and I think if you've watched some of his other shows you'll understand why. Some of the most consistently funny, well cast comedy on TV has had him behind it. Kids In The Hall, 30 Rock, A.P. Bio, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, Documentary Now!, Portlandia and so on and so on.
I'm sure he's quite a handful to deal with, but whatever that entails the end result of his presence on a project is that the project is often a good idea and well run. Don't get me wrong, he's had his money grabs and failed concepts, but the sheer number of hits he's involved with boggles the mind. He's willing to put money behind concepts few others even consider.
This car was featured in an episode[1] of Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, with guest Melissa Villaseñor.
[1] https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-1991-nissan-figaro-driven-by-jerry-seinfeld-in-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee
Related: This car was driven for Melissa Villaseñor's episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDg4cDMw_E4
[2] https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-1991-nissan-figaro-driven-by-jerry-seinfeld-in-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks also appear in an episode of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. It can be found, officially, on Netflix in the "Light and Sweet" season: https://www.netflix.com/title/80171362.
As I recall, the episode was initially just focused on Carl Reiner, but Seinfeld was invited back later that evening to join Reiner and Brooks for dinner.
He talks about this in the Comedians in cars getting coffee Obama episode (worth a watch!). He basically says he fell in love with the work and that’s what keeps him grounded.
Mad Men didn't even have an audience when it aired (<2 million viewers most episodes), and airs on a network that likely won't exist in 5-6 years (or at least won't be producing new content), so it's not super clear to me what your point is about those shows as evidence of how a network grows. The way a network grows is by producing content people want to watch, whether that's disposable content made to last a minute or content made to last the test of time. HBO isn't growing because people are subscribing to watch Sopranos re-runs.
Past reporting suggests churn in most subscription content services is very low, so your Netflix cancellation may be unusual. I'd also add that exclusive content is one part of the story, but there's also a lot of licensed content that's very good on Netflix as on other services.
But for what it is worth, I would rank the following Netflix originals to be "top tier" within their genre -- some of these genres lend themselves more to rewatching than others, and some are closer to my taste than others, some held up in quality through their run more than others, so in a sense I am ranking shows based on their peak quality --
Orange is the New Black; Bloodline; Stranger Things; The Crown; Gilmore Girls AYITL; The OA; A Series of Unfortunate Events; Mindhunter; The Haunting of Hill House; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Master of None; Love; Lady Dynamite; Santa Clarita Diet; GLOW; American Vandal; Maniac; Bojack Horseman; F is for Family; Disenchantment; Hilda; Dark; The Rain; Elite; Chef's Table; Making a Murderer; Shot in the Dark; Wormwood; Wild Wild Country; Salt Fat Acid Heat; Queer Eye; The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell; My Next Guest Needs No Introduction; Lilyhammer; Terrace House; Alias Grace; The End of the Fucking World; Collateral; Wanderlust; Longmire; Black Mirror; Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
In addition to these, the following shows are Netflix originals in my region, indicating that although someone else initially funded them, Netflix bought them for exclusive distribution here, and also meet the above requirements:
Babylon Berlin; Bodyguard; Casé; Crashing; Cuckoo; Derry Girls; The Great British Baking Show; Happy!; Happy Valley; The Investigator; Peaky Blinders; River.
I have pretty broad taste in TV and watch a lot of TV while I am programming or running data analysis, so maybe the breadth of stuff I include here is surprising to most. But to the extent your post is a useful anecdote about how Netflix has no great shows, I'm responding to your challenge to "Name one show" that would meet that criteria.
(These are TV shows only, not films. I haven't really liked many Netflix original films although there are a few I would say are great, like Okja and Roma)
Mel Brooks features in two Joseph Heller (of Catch-22 fame) books: No laughing matter and From Coney Island to here. It is amazing to read about how Mario Puzo (of The Godfather), Mel Brooks, Joseph Heller, Speed Vogel spent their evenings together, playing cards, eating dinner, watching TV and just ‘shooting some shit’ as friend do. The passages in the book reminded me of impressionist painters gathered in a Parisian cafe talking about where to get cheap turpentine (as depicted in the book ‘Lust for life’). Worth a read! There is also an article where two old friends (Brooks and Heller) meet again:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1979/03/11/mel-brooks-meets-joseph-heller/1f2e9a54-724f-4bf7-b000-460d1d778d18/?utm_term=.e18d582009f7
Also, in one of the brilliant episodes of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, he pays a visit to Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (with Chinese Take-out food) — I highly recommend watching that to get a glimpse of sharp incisive wit in full action at age 90!
Edit: this link is better http://articles.latimes.com/1998/feb/27/news/ls-23428
I'm a big fan of the Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip.
http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/distraction-pieces-podcast/
You probably won't get much from it if you're not a UK resident, but I find him to be a great host, despite his issues with stuttering. I highly recommend the Matt Willis episode.
While not strictly a podcast, I'm a huge fan of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. In similar vein, he does a great job of interviewing fellow comedians, and makes episodes with people you might not like very enjoyable.