You know who cannot act: Jerry Seinfeld.

He never could, but he seemed to make a lucrative living as a comic turned sit-com character in Seinfeld for 9 seasons.

Putting aside the undeniable fact that he, alongside Larry David, was the creative master behind the long-running TV show, he wasn\’t an actor. A voice-over actor, perhaps. But never a major, legitimate stage or screen presence.

But he did make it on the television screen. And make it good. Seinfeld still stands as one of the funniest television programs to ever come out of Hollywood.

Try to envisage if he could act. Try and imagine he was as perfect as his cockamamie wacky neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards), his inconsiderate ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), or his neurotic and gutless school friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander).

Or his rotund postman arch-enemy, Newman (Wayne Knight).

Actually , come to think of it, it\’s doubtless better that he never attended acting college since the premise of the show crucially hinged on Jerry Seinfeld the comedian writing the material and his mates and enemies bringing them to life around him.

So I believe herein lies some method to the acting craziness.

But unlike Shakespeare\’s Hamlet, Seinfeld did not exactly meet an unfortunate end.

Regardless of falling one year shy of ten years on American and global TV screens, Jerry Seinfeld\’s career and success only gained impetus after the show that bore his name stopped with the four selfish New Yorkers standing trial and being afterwards found guilty as innocent bystanders.

And ending up in jail.

Ironically, from there, the careers of the already mentioned real actors never really took off after the series box sets hit the retail shelves in time for Xmas and Chanukah.

The New Adventures of Old Christine never quite hit the comedic mark.

And that racial outburst in an Los Angeles comedy club wasn\’t the sort of punch line we wanted to remember the charming Kramer by.

Maybe the sole saving grace was Wayne Knight\’s role in Basic Instinct\’s infamous interrogation scene – though you probably didn't even realize he was there.

But then there was Jerry. He caused some buzz with Bee Movie, produced a Reality Television show based primarily on wedding and relationship information, and eventually returned to the improv comedy stage to great regard – and with new material!

I believe the secret to his success is a thespian technique known as Method Acting, in which the actor basically never beaks out of character. Which was simple for Seinfeld, because he was always playing himself – a comedian, always at the beck and call of his audience and with an abiding Get Out Of Fail Card – and never a genuine actor playing a \’role\’.

So all he had to do was turn up, crack some jokes and be himself for 22 minutes an episode and before he knew it, he had worldwide fame, countless industry accolades and royalty payments the Queen of Britain would be jealous of.

And all this because he could not even act.