in recent years, two sitcoms from the united states have become popular all over the world : seinfeld and friends.perhaps the greatest success of the shows was the fact that there was no one star at the center of the plot and the action. the stories revolved around the entire east, not one actor or actress alone. Seinfeld (1989-1998) starred Jerry Seinfeld, a stand-up comie who played himself. the other actors on the show played, well, somewhat unusual characters: kramer, george, and elaine. the show concentrated its plots around small, everyday things, like taking elothes to the dry cleaners, getting tickets for an important game, arguing over parking spaces, and using answering machines. these were trivial things, but ones with which the audience could identify. As Jerry Seinfeld said about his program, it was "a show about nothing