I Before E

At the A.V. Club David Sims is re-viewing Seinfeld. Discussing "The Phone Message," we get this:

The episode was scripted by Seinfeld and Larry David, both stories based on their own personal experiences, and it shows the inherent differences in their personalities and yet why they compliment each other so very well.

I can see this. When you're close friends, you know so much about the other guys, and you obviously like him, so you can probably compliment him quite well.

Later I read Nathan Rabin's review of Louie at the same website. It featured this:

The episode’s first seven minutes or so found C.K playing the put-upon straight man to guest star Ricky Gervais, who was given free reign—very, very, very free reign—to do a wild and wooly wacky doctor routine...

They really need to step up on the editing there.