"You Know, You're Not Very Funny" While acting may not be in their futures, the three Ithacans have managed to get some Seinfeld screen time as extras. In the "Yada, Yada, Yada" episode, Rogers can be seen sitting behind Jerry, George, and Kramer at a wedding. "That pasty-looking girl behind the orange woman in the coffee shop, that's me," says Eolin about her appearance in this season's "The Strong Box." Doty's one scene this year was left on the cutting-room floor, but he can be spotted, sort of, in an episode from several seasons back in which Kramer is carried out of his apartment in a sack. "That was actually me playing the body in the sack," says Doty. "I kept going up to the director saying, 'I don't really feel good about that take -- can I try it again?' I'd only been here about two months and they were like, 'You know, you're not very funny.' " Despite the adulation heaped upon it, not everyone finds Seinfeld itself funny. Is it, as some contend and the principals themselves admit, a show about nothing? "Yes, but it's a show about nothing else that you ever see on television," Eolin suggests. "It has very original stories, situations, and character development. If you turn on other sitcoms, you see a formula. One thing I like about this show is that you cannot watch the first couple of scenes and say, 'I know what's going to happen next.' " What happens next in our interview is that Jerry -- Mr. Seinfeld -- walks into the room. After polite patter -- "Hi. How ya doin'? I've driven through Ithaca a couple of times." -- it becomes clear that this isn't an opportunity to interview the man himself. "Need the room, boss?" asks Doty. That's my cue to hit the street. My Three Sons Street, to be precise. George Doty IV shared more "inside Seinfeld" stories as the keynote speaker at Reunion '98 on Saturday, May 30.

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