You know who could not 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.

Setting aside the fact that he, alongside Larry David, was the creative genius behind the lengthy television show, he was never an actor. A voice-over actor, maybe. But never a heavy, legit stage or screen presence.

But he did find success on television screen. And make it good. Seinfeld still stands as one of the most hilarious TV series to ever come out of Tinsel Town.

Just think if he could act. Just imagine he was as rehearsed as his zany eccentric neighbor Kramer (Michael Richards), his egotistical ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), or his mental and spineless high school buddy George Costanza (Jason Alexander).

Or his plump postman nemesis, Newman (Wayne Knight).

In actual fact come to think about it, it's possibly better that he never went to acting school since the success of the show ultimately hinged on Jerry Seinfeld the comic writing the jokes and his friends and foes bringing them to life around him.

So I guess here lies some method to the acting madness.

But unlike Shakespeare's Hamlet, Seinfeld didn't actually meet a sorry end.

Despite falling one year shy of a decade on American and world T.V. screens, Jerry Seinfeld's career and popularity only gained speed after the show that bore his name finished with the quartet of egoistical New Yorkers standing trial and being duly found guilty as innocent bystanders.

And ending up in jail.

Ironically, from there, the careers of the previously mentioned bona fide actors never truly took off after the series box sets hit the shelves in time for the Christmas Holidays and Hanukkah.

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

And that racial outburst in an L.A. comedy club wasn't exactly the type of punch line we needed to remember the lovable Kramer by.

Possibly the one saving grace was Wayne Knight's role in Basic Instinct's infamous interrogation scene - though you probably failed to even realize he was there.

But then there was Jerry. He caused some buzz with Bee Movie, produced a reality Tv show based on marriage and relationship guidance, and at last returned to the stand up comedy stage to great acclaim - and with new material!

I think the hidden secret to his success is a thespian methodology known as Method Acting, in which the actor essentially never beaks character. Which was easy for Seinfeld, because he always was playing himself - a comic, forever at the mercy of his audience and with an enduring Get Out Of Fail Card - and never a real actor playing a 'role'.

So all he actually had to do was get to wardrobe, re-hash some bits and be himself for 22 minutes an episode and before he knew it, he had worldwide acclaim, many industry endorsements and royalties that the Queen of Brittania would be covetous of.

And all because he could not act.