Seinfeld has since returned to his stand-up roots and, starting in 2012, has discussed his craft with peers in the breezy series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which launched on Crackle before heading to Netflix. The highlight, of course, was Seinfeld, the mega-popular 1989-98 sitcom-about-nothing that he starred in and co-created with Larry David. This passion for the inconsequential has led to a seminal career. The title comes from what comedians say to each other when they’re testing any new bit: “Is this anything?” Fans can pore over Seinfeld’s iconic musings on chatty airplane pilots, parking-lot confusion and breakfast cereals, dating all the way back to his first on-stage joke – bias against the word “left” – back in 1975. Instead, most of the material consists of comedy routines that he originally scrawled on loose-leaf paper and stuffed into brown accordion-style folders over the decades.
“Life is not long enough for me to do that,” he says. From B student to billionaire: the man who built Netflixīut it’s not a typical celebrity tell-all.Jerry Seinfeld, comedy's billion-dollar man.
Decade by decade, it retraces his journey from comedy-worshipping kid in suburban Massapequa, New York, to domesticated family man with his cookbook-author wife Jessica, 48, and their kids Sasha, 19, Julian, 17, and Shepherd, 15. The result is Is This Anything?, his first autobiographical book in 27 years. “I should leave something behind for people. “I thought, ‘Well, gee, I’m just about done here,’ ” he says. Jerry Seinfeld was feeling reflective after his 65th birthday last year, not that there’s anything wrong with that. "You know, if you want to be a good stand-up comedian, that’s a full-time job." Photo: NetflixĪfter four decades of making people laugh – not that there’s anything wrong with that – Jerry Seinfeld still has plenty of thirst for souped-up comedy.
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