I got rid of my TV the day Seinfeld went off the air. I haven’t watched live television since then, except in a social setting where someone else needs to watch it.

You said earlier that discomfort is funny to you. I’m Still Here is a brilliant comedy of discomfort. Is that what you set out to make? It was like, ‘Well, what if we could just do the hardest-core version of Curb Your Enthusiasm? Seinfeld, The Sarah Silverman Program, Curb Your Enthusiasm—everybody plays themselves. I mean, Ellen! Ellen was called Ellen. But it’s not them; it’s a distorted version of them. There was something so exciting about saying, “This is me, but now I get to make ‘me’ whatever I want it to be.”

“You’re gonna love it,” she says. “They take the temperature of the fish, cut the fish a certain way…remember Soup Nazi on Seinfeld? ‘No soup for you!’ It’s like that—they say, ‘No wasabi! No soy sauce!’ They manage your mouth.”

Seinfeld remembers “teasing” Jordan about whose final season would be a bigger deal, Jordan and the 98 Bulls or Jerry and the Seinfeld finale that was also taking place that same year. He goes on to say the most starstruck he’s ever been in his life was when Keith Hernandez guest starred on Seinfeld in 1992, but by 1998 he wasn’t exactly fazed by talking with an athlete, even on the level of Michael Jordan.

Favorite TV shows: Seinfeld

What TV show should I have watched by now? - I hope you watched Seinfeld

Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos rebuked a White House adviser on Thursday with an Instagram post that included a “Seinfeld” meme.

I hear you’re a Seinfeld fan. Seinfeld is the only show we watched as a family growing up. It’s a little surprising to me, because Seinfeld has endured so well over the years, but there are some racy storylines in there. My parents, they’re not strict, but they’re wholesome people. Homework would stop, whatever you were doing. We would gather and watch Seinfeld.