Jerry Seinfeld

At 70 years old, Jerry Seinfeld has this physical status:

Career

After brief stints in college theatres, Seinfeld developed an interest in stand-up comedy. When attending Queens College, he appeared on open-mic nights at Budd Friedman's Improv Club. He started out at an open-mic night at Catch a Rising Star in New York City, which culminated in his appearance in a Rodney Dangerfield HBO special. In 1980, he appeared on Benson's small recurring role as Frankie, a mail-delivery boy with comedy routines that no one wanted to hear. Seinfeld was unexpectedly dropped from the show due to creative inconsistencies. Seinfeld has claimed that he was not told he had been fired until he turned up for the read-through session for an episode and found that there was no script for him. Seinfeld made a good appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, wowing Carson and the audience, resulting in repeated appearances on the program and others, including Late Night with David Letterman. His first one-hour special Stand-Up Confidential aired live on HBO on September 5, 1987.

Larry David and Seinfeld developed The Seinfeld Chronicles for NBC in 1988. Seinfeld was later renamed to avoid confusion with the short-lived teen sitcom The Marshall Chronicles. It had become America's most viewed sitcom by the third season. The last episode aired in 1998, and it has been a hit syndicated revival ever since. The show starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus and established actor Jason Alexander, as well as Seinfeld. Alexander, a Larry David caricature, played George, a George. Seinfeld is the only actor to appear in every episode of the show.

Seinfeld has claimed that his performance was influenced by the 1950s sitcom The Abbott and Costello Show. "I really influenced my entire comedic sensibility, I learned how to do comedy from Jean Shepherd," Seinfeld said on episode "The Gymnast." Former Seinfeld cast and crew filmed audio commentary for episodes of the show's DVD releases from 2004 to 2007.

Seinfeld returned to New York City after ending his sitcom and advancing his acting career rather than remaining in Los Angeles and furthering his acting career. In 1998, he went on tour and recorded a comedy special titled "I'm Telling You for the Last Time" in honor of the last time. In a 2002 documentary, Comedian, which also featured fellow comedian Orny Adams and was directed by Christian Charles, the process of creating and performing new content at clubs around the world was chronicled. Seinfeld has published several books, the bulk of which are archives of previous activities. Apple Computer introduced the slogan "Think different" in the late 1990s and launched a 60-second commercial to promote the phrase. Several people were able to "think differently," including Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and many others were shown in this commercial. It was later cut short to 30 seconds and altered so that Seinfeld was included at the end, but not in the original cut. During Seinfeld's series finale, this shorter version of the commercial aired only once.

Seinfeld appeared in two commercial webisodes promoting American Express, titled The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman, in 2004. Seinfeld performed a cartoon representation of Superman, to whom mention was made in numerous episodes of Seinfeld as Seinfeld's hero, portrayed by Patrick Warburton (character David Puddy on Seinfeld). Barry Levinson directed the webisodes, and they were briefly on television for a brief period of time. In a specially recorded interview with Matt Lauer, Seinfeld and "Superman" were also interviewed. Seinfeld wore the "puffy shirt" he wore in the Seinfeld episode of the same name on November 18, 2004, at the National Museum of American History. When presenting the "puffy shirt," he delivered a speech in which he added, "This is the most embarrassing moment of my life." On May 13, 2006, Seinfeld as host Julia Louis-Dreyfus was killed in a cameo on Saturday Night Live as host Julia Louis-Dreyfus' assassination. In her first monolog, Louis-Dreyfus spoke of the "Seinfeld curse." A stage light suddenly fell next to her as she was discussing how ridiculous the "curse" was. Seinfeld was on the stage with a large pair of bolt cutters at the top of the scene.

He angrily muttered, "Damn it!"

She was angry that it didn't strike her. Louis-Dreyfus continued to state that she is not cursed.

Seinfeld received the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007, as the host for "Best Documentary." He gave a monologue about the unspoken agreement between movie theater owners and moviegoers before announcing the nominations. In the 30 Rock episode "SeinfeldVision," Seinfeld performed as himself on October 4, 2007. Seinfeld appeared as the voice of his Bee Movie animated character Barry, the 80th Academy Awards' Best Animated Short Film on February 24, 2008. He pretended to introduce the nominees by montageing bee clips, implying that they were some of his early work (as Barry).

Seinfeld appeared in his hometown of New York City on June 2, 2008, a charity that supports lung cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, amidst his spring 2008 tour. As part of a $300-million advertising campaign by Microsoft, Jerry Seinfeld will be the pitchman for Windows Vista in August 2008. The ads, which were supposed to spark excitement for Windows in favour of the forthcoming "I'm a PC" advertisements, began airing in mid-September 2008. They were removed from television after three installments; Microsoft decided to continue with the "I'm a PC" ads and run the Seinfeld ads on the Microsoft website as a sequence of longer advertisements; he was eventually banned from television after three installments. In March 2009, it was announced that Seinfeld and the entire cast of Seinfeld would be back for a reunion in Larry David's HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, all of the original cast members, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, appeared in a multiple-episode arc in the seventh season's finale. Seinfeld appeared in a Starz original series Head Case episode. He appeared on several of his previous guest appearances on sitcoms, as was the case in several of his previous guest appearances on sitcoms.

Seinfeld appeared in a series of advertisements for the Greater Building Society, a building society based in New South Wales and southeastern Queensland in Australia. Seinfeld's appearance in these ads was highly admonition and was regarded as a social coup for the nation, marking the third time the actor appeared in a television commercial. The advertisements were shot in Cedarhurst, Long Island, where the Greater's head offices are based. The scripts for the 15 advertisements that were shot were also written by Seinfeld. The ads appeared in the television market in Northern New South Wales, where the society has the majority of its branches. Seinfeld was the first guest on Jay Leno's talk show The Jay Leno Show, which premiered on September 14, 2009. Seinfeld appeared on Weekend Night Live's Weekend Update sketch to do the "Really!" Seth Meyers appeared on Seth Meyers' segment. He was an engineer who served as a panelist in The Marriage Ref and regularly appeared as one. On August 30, 2010, Seinfeld appeared on The Howard Stern Show for the first time, putting an end to the feud between the two artists in the early 1990s.

Seinfeld appeared in the United States in 2011 for the first time in 11 years. In July 2011, he was a surprise guest on The Daily Show, assisting Jon Stewart in overcoming his desire to tell "cheap" "Michele Bachmann's husband has gay" jokes. Seinfeld also established a personal archives website at JerrySeinfeld.com and appeared in the HBO special Talking Funny with fellow comedians Chris Rock, Louis C.K., and Ricky Gervais in the same year.

Seinfeld created Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2012, in which he'd pick up a fellow comedian in a separate car each episode and bring them out for coffee and chat. The show appeared on the Crackle subscription service first and then Netflix purchased it. The first series had ten episodes ranging from 7 to 25 minutes each. Tina Fey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, David Letterman, Stephen Murphy, Steven Martin, John Mulaney, John Mulaney, Donald Juilliard, Ellen DeGeneres, Howard Stern, and Jerry Lewis have all appeared on the show, including Tina Fey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Douglas C.K., Steve Martin, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Douglas C.K., Charles C. Larry David, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards appeared on the program. The late-President Barack Obama, who was the season seven's most high-profile guest, was among the guests. "That knocking on the Oval Office window, in a farewell tribute video for the Obamas before the President left office," Seinfeld said in a farewell tribute video for the Obamas. That must have been the point of my entire existence."

In January 2017, Seinfeld announced that he had signed a Netflix contract. All episodes of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as part of the subscription package will be available on the streaming platform, in comparison to a new 24-episode season.

Seinfeld appeared on rapper Wale's album The Gifted in June 2013, "Outro About Nothing" was a video on YouTube. Seinfeld was praised for his address at the 2014 Clio Awards ceremony, where he was given an honorary award and "ripped apart" the media industry, according to media journalists; his claim that "I love advertising because I love lying" attracted particular attention;

The Apollo Theatre held the special Don Rickles: One Night Only at the Apollo Theater in 2014. Don Rickles' career was celebrated at the festival, but it also served as a roast among friends. Those who attended included Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Nathan Lane, Regis Philbin, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese.

Seinfeld appeared on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special on February 15, 2015, where he hosted "Questions from the Audience" segment, which featured cameos from Michael Douglas, John Goodman, James Franco, Larry David, Ellen Cleghorne, Dakota Johnson, Tim Meadows, Bob Odenkirk, and Sarah Palin (who Seinfeld initially mistook for Tina Fey).

Seinfeld appeared on David Letterman's last Late Show episode on May 20, 2015. Seinfeld paid tribute to Letterman with a group of his friends. Alec Baldwin, Barbara Walters, Steven Martin, Jim Caryman, Jim Carney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Peyton Manning, Tina Fey, and Bill Murray were among the other guests in The Top Ten List segment, "Things I've Always Wanted to Say to Dave."

Seinfeld appeared on Jimmy Fallon and joined Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Fallon in honoring outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama, and Seinfeld lost a game of Catching Which Fallon won over to Seinfeld's dismay.

Seinfeld joined Steve Martin in a discussion about comedy at The New Yorker Festival in October 2020. They addressed topics ranging from the artistic process, Netflix, and The Oscars, to their comedy backgrounds, and the future of comedy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seinfeld Entertainment Group and Netflix agreed to a contract with Seinfeld and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as well as two new Seinfeld stand-up specials and the production of scripted and non-scripted comedy series.

Jerry Before Seinfeld, Netflix's stand-up comedy special, was released on September 19, 2017. Seinfeld appears in the special as he returns for a stand-up routine at the New York City comedy club Comic Strip Live, which began his career. The special is intercut with documentary clips and his stand-up special. The special was later released as an LP, CD, and download album, and it was nominated for a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

In 2020, it was announced that Netflix would have Seinfeld's first original stand-up special in 22 years, 23 Hours to Kill. On May 5, the special premiere took place.

Seinfeld wrote the book SeinLanguage, which was released in 1993. It is mainly a stand-up version that was written as his television show was first on the radio. The article was inspired by an article in Entertainment Weekly naming the numerous catchwords for which the show was based. He wrote the children's book Halloween in 2002. James Bennett illustrated the book. Seinfeld wrote the forewords to Ted L. Nancy's Letters from a Nut series of books and Ed Broth's Tales from a Moron. The Peanut Butter & Co. Cookbook also featured Seinfeld in the foreword. Seinfeld's latest book, Is This Anything?, was published in October 2020. The book chronicles Seinfeld's 45 years in comedy as well as some of his best bits from previous decades.

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