Is revisiting old material like leafing through a diary? Like any person who looks at early work, you get a little embarrassed and go, “Oh my god, this wasn’t very good.” But that was the bridge that got me to where I was good. You pick up tiny clues and hints and follow red yarn, and that’s how you find out you’re going to dinner.
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In a marriage, you have to piece together things like you’re trying to catch a serial killer. Right now, I’m noodling with this bit about marriage information versus outside information. I mean, you get a little better at what you do, but the things that interest me and want to communicate to others are the same. Is that a fair assessment? Yes, I think it is. Reading the book, it seems like your life has changed but your personality has not. Now 66, he has a cup of fresh-brewed coffee in hand on this rainy New York afternoon as he Zooms from his office in his Long Island home (where he and his family have been residing during the pandemic) to talk about his roots and his upbringing, Seinfeld memories, the post-pandemic future of comedy and more.
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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. 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.īut it’s not a typical celebrity tell-all. 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.
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