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What-could-have-beens are always amusing food for thought in retrospect, especially when looking back on two pop culture diamonds of television from the distance of several decades. I mean, “Seinfeld” and “Friends” both ended over 20 years ago, yet here we are still talking about them in 2025 like time has barely passed at all. Okay, to be fair, this is kind of old news that came out during the COVID-19 lockdowns when “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert decided to call up his old pal Chris Rock on television for a casual chat. And beyond discussing how they missed having humans and flesh-and-bone audiences to entertain and interact with, Rock also mentioned (after Colbert brought it up) that he very well could’ve been a star in two of the most well-known and celebrated sitcoms on Earth.<\/p>\n
Rock started by addressing the rumor that once he was in talks to portray\u00a0Seinfeld’s grumpy best friend George Constanza<\/a>, who was ultimately played by Jason Alexander. As the actor-comedian explained (via Fox News<\/a>):<\/p>\n “I just heard that one. I mean, it was a lot of NBC talk. There was talk about ‘Seinfeld.’ Let’s just say the good people at ‘Seinfeld,’ they made the right choice. He’s [Jason Alexander] good. He’s amazing.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n But perhaps the more intriguing revelation, if you ask me, was that Rock was also in talks to become a major player on NBC’s juggernaut 1990s TV phenomenon, “Friends.”<\/a> To quote Rock directly:<\/p>\n “There was talk about me being one of the ‘Friends’ at a point. Yes, I would have been the Black friend. That’s basically who I am to America anyway at this point.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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