‘Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander Talks Killing off George Costanza's Wife Susan on ‘Howard Stern’

At one point Seinfeld was the biggest show in the world. Even in syndication it's still one of the most watched shows on television. It's because of this that when one of the cast talks about it, it makes headlines. This was the case when George Costanza actor Jason Alexander talked about why they killed off his wife Susan on the Howard Stern Show. According to Alexander, the main reason was because he had no chemistry with Susan's actor Heidi Swedberg.

During the interview with Stern, Alexander admitted he had no chemistry with Swedberg. Alexander said it was hard to "play off" her.

"I couldn't figure out how to play off of her," Alexander told Stern. "Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring. And she would do something, and I would go, 'OK, I see what she's going to do – I'm going to adjust to her.' And I'd adjust, and then it would change."

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— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) June 4, 2015

Midway through Susan's introduction Alexander got the word from Seinfeld show runner Larry David that he and Susan would be getting hitched. David told Alexander that no matter what horrible thing they did with Susan the audience would still love him.

It wasn't until later on did Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus see what Alexander was talking about. They, too, had a hard time working with Swedberg.

"They go, 'You know what? It's f*cking impossible. It's impossible'," Alexander continued with Stern. "And Julia actually said, 'Don't you want to just kill her?' And Larry went, 'Ka-bang!' Just like that, the character's fate was sealed."

How do you feel about Susan's death on Seinfeld now? Should she have been killed off licking those cheap, poisonous envelops?