Seinfeld: Pussy Whipped

NYP "Matri-Money": It only took Jerry Seinfeld 11 years to come up with another idea for a TV show. Seinfeld said yesterday he was returning to TV with a new comedy-reality series called "The Marriage Ref." The show - due to premiere next fall on NBC - will put cameras on real-life, troubled couples every week.

Well, "He" is not returning to TV. Somebody else will play the marriage ref. Seinfeld is EP. And "Marriage Ref" is only a "working title."

NBC's entertainment co-czar Ben Silverman - who is wedded to a bong - heralded the triumphant return of Seinfeld.

NBC pimp, er press release quoting Jerry: "This is not a therapy show, it's a comedy show. After nine years of marriage I have discovered that the comedic potential of this subject is quite rich."

The lady producer: "It will be revealing, edgy, controversial and very, very funny. Picture well-known people weighing in on a couple's relationship issues -- and deciding who is right and who is wrong -- right on the spot, like a referee."

Mr. Seinfeld is thrilled to partner with Ms. Rakieten on "The Marriage Ref." Rakieten joined "The Oprah Winfrey Show" as a producer at its inception in 1986, and was a major force in creating the most dominant program in daytime history.

"NBC has a long and enormously successful relationship with Jerry and this great new concept reflects his incredible and unique point of view," said Silverman. "Viewers will love this highly relatable new comedy."

Added Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios, "While 'Seinfeld' was a hilarious look at single life, this new show will focus on the humor of relationships and marriage. It's a great fit with the slate of alternative comedy we are building at NBC."

Alternative comedy? Will the new reality show showcase married gay couples?

Wash Post TV critic Lisa de Moraes was underwhelmed: Yes, Jerry Seinfeld -- the man who famously met, wooed and won his wife right after she returned to Manhattan from her honeymoon with her new husband, Eric Nederlander -- has created a TV series in which comics, sports figures and opinionated celebrities (which sounds like NBC-speak for Donald Trump) will advise average-Joe couples in the throes of a "classic marital dispute." Back in 1998, when the press was weighing in on Seinfeld's relationship with the then Mrs. Eric Nederlander, the comic was buttonholed one day by a New York Post reporter and told that reporter, "You know, I'm barely interested in my own life -- I don't know how you could be interested in it." When the reporter persisted, asking Seinfeld about what role he might be playing in the dissolution of the four-month marriage of Nederlander and Jessica Sklar, Seinfeld responded by calling the reporter "a poor human being." "Could you imagine people asking about their relationship, like it's high school. It's so sad."

I don't want to watch someone else's family feud. In marriage all fights boil down to two things: sex and money.

How about calling the show "Marital Aid?"

Or why not just enlist Stevie Wonder to host? Michelle Obama claims if it weren't for Stevie she never would've married Barack.