In the best, most carefully honed segment of the hour, he glides into an exploration of things that suck versus things that are great. Is this a special milestone for you? He can’t be what you label him as. That I kept trying to do silly things, right to the end. It is Seinfeld as he’s performed in the most on-the-nose Seinfeld parodies, full of rhetorical questions and pulled faces and bone-dryness alternating with stratospherically silly falsettos. After all, he’s 65. My writing technique is just: You can’t do anything else. But Seinfeld knows that, too. The vendor (he throws in, with the unapologetic Seinfeldian privilege) is an ex-con out on a work-release program. No. May 9, 2020 6:00pm by Then again, without you violating their rules they’ve got little to live for. A single mother turns to housekeeping to make ends meet as she battles poverty, homelessness and bureaucracy. Hell, Larry’s too lazy! Entitled “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill,” the new hour-long event sees the renowned … And no one does it anywhere near as well as he does. That sustains me. Not really, to tell you the truth. Normally you go see a comedian and there’s a long setup. The TV shows won’t quite know what to make. The only people that have fabulous, fabulous places, stink. It’s kind of like missing your friends. Yes. — post-show business now. Is it harder, though, when we don’t know when this is going to end? “I did show business,” Seinfeld said. Could you see yourself performing for an online audience? I shot the trailer for the special in the first week of March. I don’t know how many jokes will become part of the vernacular, that you’ll quote to your buddies, but I will say you’ll see yourself more in Jerry’s comedy special than you will in any one I’ve seen in decades. That was not going to feel quite right. Completely. There is a general, base-level sadness that our species is under threat. And the better the person, the crumbier the house is going to look. I don’t like these homey shows. To me, I feel a tremendous debt to New York. Seinfeld developed an interest in stand-up comedy after brief stints in college productions. Eddie Van Halen Once Asked Ozzy Osbourne to Join the Band, “I think he was a bit drunk. It comes after Simon & Schuster announced earlier this year that Seinfeld’s first book in 25 years would be released in October. Sitting in a room decorated with family photos, books, model cars and a copy of the Allan Sherman comedy album “My Son, the Nut,” Seinfeld talked about his evolving feelings on comedy, its power and its deficiencies during this time. The cleverest one is at the end: an ice-cream cone he imagines falling on the ground. The veteran comedian is coming out with a new Netflix standup special, "23 Hours to Kill" (spoiler: It's only an hour long). He’s been there, done that, he’s got no need to see or experience it again. We’re taking everything so seriously, it’s life and death, you versus me, it’s a battle with everything on the line. 2020 TV-PG 1h Stand-Up Comedy. And it is impressive. Do you think this might be the last stand-up special you do? I would love to hang out with them, but I can’t. He has been married for 19 years, and it is exhausting. Has the pandemic reawakened your feelings of civic pride? Jerry’s a boomer through and through, he wants to shine, he wants the accolades. This time, the singer-songwriter’s challenge to listen comes as a gift. It was filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York and was part of the Seinfeld co-creator and star’s residency at the venue, the last few shows of which were curtailed by the Coronavirus last month. You just become highly adaptable to everything. Once again, those on the spectrum love routine, it keeps them centered. You can’t be complaining about that. In 1980, he had a small recurring role on the sitcom Benson, playing Frankie, a mail-delivery boy who had comedy routines that no one wanted to hear.