Did one of television’s most successful sitcoms rip off another sitcom hit?

That’s the charge made by Jerry Seinfeld, who contends that “Friends” is nothing more than a “Seinfeld” clone, but with a prettier cast.

Seinfeld made the accusation during an interview for The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, where he also insists that his show’s reputation as “a show about nothing” is “nonsense.”

“That was made up by the press,” says Seinfeld of the phrase, which was derived from an exceptionally meta storyline in which his character and pal George Constanza (Jason Alexander) pitched NBC on a sitcom called “Jerry”, which was described as being about nothing.

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As for “Friends”, he believes the long-running sitcom hit basically copied the formula that he and co-creator Larry David invented for “Seinfeld”.

“We thought, ‘They wanna do our show with better-looking people. That’s what they’re doing here,'” he said. “And we thought, ‘That should work.'”

He also opens up about his decision to end “Seinfeld” at the peak of its popularity.

“To be perfectly candid with you, it was a lot of pressure,” Seinfeld admits. “I’d probably have done the show a few more years if the show didn’t become so popular, because I felt a responsibility then to not disappoint the audience at the end.”

He added: “I knew it was about to crash and burn because I just couldn’t function anymore,” he says of show’s final two seasons. “I couldn’t keep going… Why would we end it? We ended it because we wanted the audience to have a great feeling about the experience that they had watching it. It wasn’t just a business.”