The Six-Minute Kramer

Author: Matt Sussman
Published: October 16, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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Via BuzzFeed, it's quite amazing how one man's career can be cooked down into a timepiece that could run on prime time without commercial breaks. For those keeping score, that's six minutes and nine seasons.

Michael Richards may never be known for anything but Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld (unless you count his subsequent racist tirade), but my God, what a way to be marginalized.

He had many other memorable lines (Try saying "giddy up" in any other mannerism) but The Door Entrance was his "Stairway to Heaven." You could watch 180 episodes to capture the true essence of Kramer. In a smaller amount of time, you could capture a smaller essence with this jigsaw puzzle. Or just get it all out of the way before lunchtime.

I can only help but postulate, when my short-lived career as a Guy Who Blogs is done, not if a YouTube compilation of my works will be available (someone'll do it), but how long it shall run. Kramer got six minutes. I'll be lucky for 30 seconds. But it'll be a fantastic half-minute.

Wait. Sorry. I was thinking of my first time.

 
 

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