Qramer?
Larry Charles, a top writer and director on the smash sitcom “Seinfeld,” has tried to imagine where the characters from that ‘90s program might be now, more than two decades later.
For starters, the 64-year-old Brooklyn native believes the nutty character Cosmo Kramer, played by Michael Richards, would be both a crazed conspiracy theorist and possibly a radical opponent to fascism, too.
“When I thought about how ‘Seinfeld’ would survive in this kind of environment and this television environment ... I think about bringing those characters to the 21st century and wouldn’t Kramer be a believer in QAnon?” Charles said on the Daily Beast podcast Fever Dreams. “But he might also be in antifa at the same time to cover his bets.”
Kramer had a gambling problem on the show and was also prone to unusual ideas, once insisting he’d come across a man who was half pig, possibly due to a secret governmental experiment in genetics. Charles explained that the eccentric Kramer character is malleable enough to entertain opposite ideologies because he “loves the rabbit hole.”
Charles also said Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, probably would have a drug problem and a failed marriage or two under her belt. His prognostication for the neurotic George Costanza character, played by Jason Alexander, is much darker.
“George might have committed suicide by now, quite frankly,” he said.
According to Charles, one of the keys to the show is that it was honest about the dark side of human nature.
The star of “Seinfeld,” Jerry Seinfeld, would be exactly who he is and has always been, Charles imagines.
“And Jerry is Jerry, that what would be what’s funny about it, is that their lives have gotten so much more desperate, but Jerry is still Jerry,” Charles said. “Nothing effects Jerry and that’s what’s great about Jerry.”
