Here's the advice Louis C.K. and Mark Zuckerberg's top digital guy gave Seinfeld when developing 'Comedians in Cars'
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"I remember when I told the idea to Louis C.K., and I said, 'I have this idea where I'll hang out with comedians, and I'll shoot it, and I'll cut it together with music and coffee.' And I asked, 'What do I do with that?'"
Louis C.K., who broke new ground in the industry by releasing his comedy specials for $5 on his website, suggested that Seinfeld follow a similar payment format.
"He said, 'You should charge people a dollar to watch.' And I didn't like that idea. Nobody knew what to do."
Seinfeld then went to the offices of Facebook and YouTube and consulted with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), but no one saw the show as a viable possibility at the time.
"I had this big meeting at CAA with these really smart digital people. It was like ten people in the room, people I had read about, never met: 'This is the guy who meets with Zuckerberg every day. He's way out there.'
And I said, 'I have this idea, and it seems like as a person that people know, and I have an audience, people know me, so we can get people to check it out. And the internet seems like a pretty fluid medium… What do you think I could do?' And they went, 'I don't know.' No idea."
The issue that most developers had with the show was its extended run time.
"They said, 'If you're over five minutes, nobody's going to hang in there.' Because the internet - five minutes is the maximum length of time. And we average nineteen minutes a viewer."
After being rejected from sponsorship by Starbucks, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" eventually came together with the backing of car company Acura in a deal that allowed Seinfeld to write the featured ads himself.
And Louis C.K. even ended up being a guest on "Comedians" in January 2014.
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Guests for the rest of the season will include Jim Carrey, Steve Harvey, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, and future "Daily Show" host, Trevor Noah.
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