Seinfeld was a television show.
Larry Charles . Charles is best known as a staff writer for the American sitcom Seinfeld for its first five seasons , contributing some of the show 's darkest and most absurd storylines . Seinfeld is an American sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on NBC , from 1989 to 1998 . It was largely written by David and Seinfeld with script writers who included Larry Charles , Peter Mehlman , Gregg Kavet , Carol Leifer , David Mandel , Jeff Schaffer , Steve Koren , Jennifer Crittenden , Tom Gammill , Max Pross , Dan O'Keefe , Charlie Rubin , Marjorie Gross , Alec Berg , Elaine Pope , and Spike Feresten .