Top 10 Funniest Seinfeld Characters Ranked
5. Newman
What’s better than watching the two nemeses Jerry and Newman fight each other? Well, if it’s a fight as hilarious as theirs, then we are all eyes open!
Newman can’t stand Jerry’s guts. Whether it is getting annoyed by the constant onslaught of mail that he gets (“it just keeps coming and coming and coming”) or his boisterous friends. A classic situation of neighbors who cannot stand each other, it’s definitely something a lot of people can relate to!
4. Jerry Seinfeld
The protagonist Jerry Seinfeld is one of the funniest characters on the show. What can be a better comedy than to take some moments of your life, no matter how unpleasant or awkward, and turn them into pieces of joy through comedy?
Well, Jerry does that for you! No matter what the situation, jerry always finds a way to make it hilarious or quip a joke about it. It’s his observation of the silliest and littlest things and his jokes on these observations is the thing that makes Seinfeld so funny.
3. Elaine Benes
One-fourth of the main cast of Seinfeld, Elaine is hands-down one of the funniest characters on Seinfeld. Her sassy demeanor and classy wits make really lovable character on the show. The only girl in the group of guys, she provides a much-needed realized perspective.
With a myriad of expressions and obsession with exclamation points, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays this role with an ease that gives Elaine her hilarious comic timing.
2. Cosmo Kramer
Kramer owned Seinfeld. As the oddball and eccentric neighbor of Jerry with his famous bedraggled hair, Kramer never failed to provide constant unapologetic comedy, and his frolics were often a result of his lucky-to-go nature.
Based on a real character, Kramer has some golden characteristics. His free-spirited nature, the way he always sees life from a bohemian side, at the same time provides the most unthinkable, wacky ideas and inputs about situations is what makes such a unique but funny character on Seinfeld.
Fun fact, did you know that due to Kramer’s popularity on the show, the live audience had to be requested to stop cheering whenever he entered the scene! Crazy, right?
Checkout: The Hardest Cosmo Kramer Quiz
1. George Costanza
Based on Seinfeld’s co-creator Larry David, George Costanza is one of the main characters on the show. His shenanigans with Jerry add to the hilarity of the show.
With Jason Alexander carrying out the role of George effortlessly, it makes this character one of the most likable on the show.
Whether it is him worrying about his deal with the pigeons or shouting out “Please a little respect, for I am Costanza, the Lord of the idiots”, George is a misfit that a lot of us awkward people can relate to!