Keith Hernandez’s visitor look on “Seinfeld” continues to pay dividends.
The baseball nice, who famously performed himself on a 1992 episode of the pioneering sitcom, says he nonetheless will get paid for the function.
While showing on the March 24 episode of the “SI Media with Jimmy Traina” podcast, Hernandez was requested how a lot his final residual verify from the present was.
“It varies. I can tell you that on an annual basis what it is,” he mentioned. “It’s close to $5,000 still. It’s the gift that keeps giving.”
“But remember one thing: I was the guest star,” he added.
Hernandez, who now works as an announcer for the New York Mets on SNY, wasn’t only a visitor star — he stands out as the most memorable visitor star of the present’s nine-season run. In the two-part episode that aired throughout the sequence’ third season, he performs himself and turns into pleasant with Jerry, just for Jerry to develop into jealous when Hernandez begins courting Elaine.
The episode additionally famously lampooned the film “JFK” with a storyline in which Kramer and Newman claim Hernandez spit at them after a game in 1987. George, meanwhile, tried to exaggerate his own friendship with Hernandez to continue getting unemployment benefits.
Hernandez, who said he had never watched the series before starring in it, returned to appear in a brief capacity during “Seinfeld’s” 1998 series finale.
He recently crossed paths with Jerry Seinfeld himself, too. Seinfeld was at a Mets spring training game in Port St. Lucie, Florida, when Hernandez walked into an elevator with Seinfeld. Hernandez had no idea Seinfeld was “right next to me” till somebody pointed him out.
“I said, ‘Jerry!’” Hernandez recalled, earlier than including that it was nice to see him.
Hernandez is actually not the one well-known persona to make some further money on “Seinfeld.” TODAY’s Al Roker additionally appeared on “Seinfeld,” though he’s not fairly certain his payday is on par with Hernandez’s $5,000 annual take.
“I don’t know if it’s that much,” he mentioned March 25 on TODAY about his function. Al performed himself on a 1993 episode throughout the present’s fifth season.
