Jerry Seinfeld's First Stand-Up Appearance On "Late Night" | Letterman
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2022
- Jerry Seinfeld thought he had to get glasses at 10 because he couldn't see his parents. (Air date: 5/13/1982)
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somewhere in a public library, Kenny Bania is watching this clip and saying: "I cant believe this guy's a billionare."
And he's thinking, "soup... is not a meal, Jerry!"
@@mitchferullo3448 Best swordfish in the city Jerry.
@@mitchferullo3448 It's an Armani, Jerry
I've heard of him. He's that "Did you ever notice this? Did you ever notice that?" guy.
I love it when he says, “You know what I mean?” It’s so uncharacteristic of him now haha
"I grew up on Long Island, thank you"
He said thank you before the applause
thanks for catching that Rayne!
i totally caught that too. obvious
He sounds like someone doing a Jerry Seinfeld impression
it's spot-on
It sounds like he is exaggerating his own accent
I don't think he cuts it as himself.
You’re exactly right! It sounds like a comic doing a parody of him. I respect his hard work ethic as a comic but I NEVER EVER found him funny.
Nice to see some old Letterman in hi-res rather than VHS tapes uploaded to RUclips
The guy what has all the old stuff is a great human being. “You’re the original Donz.” N.E.OH Bob
They're grabbing clips off the original broadcast tapes.
Thank you for posting the air date!!!! I wish all the clips had the air date and not the date of submission to youtube. Well done.
May of 82. Wow
this guys got potential. if he buckles down and sees it through, might just have somethin
In 1988, George Shapiro actually wrote this to the president of NBC:
''Call me a crazy guy, but I feel that Jerry Seinfeld will soon be doing a series on NBC.''
Nah. He could surround himself with two or even three great performers and he still wouldn't make it. That's a shame.
Such an original comment
@@johnsong853 thats a shame
Awful. Worst stand up I’ve ever seen.
I've never once seen Jerry being nervous. He's just always so comfortable out there.
True. Pretty incredible when you think about it...
For sure he’s nervous every time he’s on the stage that’s what’s every human being would feel but some people can hide it some people don’t that’s it
His goofy laugh when interviewed was pretty nervous.
Cue the highly original "he's good hope he makes it" comments. Such hilarity!
har har, it's a knee slapper I tell ya
Mad
Or when some of them put a smiley face at the end of the comment ;)
incase we thought they were serious 😂
That’s gold Jerry. Gold!
I just watched Jerry’s final appearance on Dave’s show from 2015…he did the same routine as his very first appearance, with a few tweaks.
Funny, I watched this video just now and was thinking the whole time "I heard these jokes recently. He must have done the same routine on Carson or something." Then I saw your comment and remembered: I watched his final appearance just a week or two ago!
Yes, similar weather joke on his first appearance on Carlson, first on Dave's and very last on Dave's, what a nice touch.
"I caught your act. It didn't do it for me. Just so much fluff".
YOU'RE A CASHIERRRR, Jerry.... I just don't know sometimes
This was a nice surprise. I hope Letterman continues to upload the best of Letterman's show.
@@user-otzlixr looks like Letterman won! 😉👍
I like the thought of Dave sitting in a Montana coffee shop uploading his clips. 😄
“Jerry Seinfeld is a very inventive and likable young comic.” At least some of that is still true: “Jerry Seinfeld is a very. . . comic.”
Funny kid. Hope he makes it. Tough business
Jerry has a sweet dorkiness here that seems long gone
Before his ego grew too big.
So true
He has such a stage presence. I wonder if my view of his stand up would be tainted if I saw him back then before he blew up supposed to now after I already love his show and everything.
Nearly 40 years since aired. Feels like it was not so long ago
I'm 38 years old......I have grey hair, a bald spot, a bad back, and I feel like my midlife crisis was at 12 years old.
This was 40 years ago, and you feel like it wasn't long ago??? How old are YOU???
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Absolutly hilarious, the crowd didn't know what they had
He Smashed it! 😂👍🏾
That was brutal. Fortunately he stuck with it and improved.
I wish this kid all the best. With a bit of work, he might become somebody
Maybe he creates a show about nothing.
@@georgemirnich33 nah that’ll never work
He comes out the exact opposite of Larry and praises the audience immediately.
do the opposite! -George
Thanks!
How can he be 28 here he looks fifteen 😂 wow I recall when he filled in on Carson
He looks like a guy dressed by his parents for school picture day
Love the jumper.
Seinfeld has never been a knee slapper laugh out loud reaction type guy for me. I’ve always said that Jerry makes me chuckle. Which I guess is good enough
Nice throwback to " Chase Manhattan "
No one is more amused by Jerry than Jerry.
Was waiting for Dave to call him Jimmy.
Not really, from what ive seen of him. He is confident in his comedic abilities and rightfully so.
Never noticed before how like Travolta he looks.
Or Mick Jones from The Clash.
Can you believe this was almost 40 years ago?
5:36 he cut that laugh out from his act?! He had some good genuine amused energy going here, makes his later work look like another day at the office, that’s just my opinion
He was great from the beginning
Hard to believe this was only two years ago
It's like he's aged 42 years in two years.
Jerry should be thanking God every day that he met Larry David
Larry David should be just as thankful that he met Jerry Seinfeld. It was Jerry who had the deal with NBC to make a show. If not for Larry, someone else would have written the show. It wouldn't have been as good. It might have been totally different and definitely less successful, but there would have been a show of some kind with Jerry, with or without Larry.
@@danieldougan269 it would have failed me thinks? What u say lol Cheers
YESSSS. I agree with That. He came into a hipster bar in Columbus Ohio after a show in the early 90's and we all ignored him and he never even came inside. AWESOME.
@@Jack-2day Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?
@@danieldougan269You're right, and anyone who says differently is ignorant and just saying that because of the popularity of Curb.
Seinfeld has been off the air for 26 years, and Curb just ended a few days ago. People are so "in the moment" that they lose sight of history. Larry and Jerry needed each other, and wouldn't have made it otherwise.
He's gotten better.
Jerry, jerry. I got glasses in kindergarten. I think my parents wondered why I was aleays walking into walls.
This guy actually had a show on NBC back in 1989. Ran for 4 episodes in the summer. The guy who wrote it with him, an unstable nut job named Larry David, blew up in a meeting with the executives and that was it. Neither one of them ever got another chance. (You quantum physics fans out there know that there's a universe out there where that indeed happened).
What was this show called? And tell me more about this Larry David guy
@@Whatdisaypt1and2 Ah. There you go.
@@leobrussel9471 who is Larry Davidson
That's good Jerry ... gold!!
you know the deal
Jerry did this bit on the semi finals to the final show of the Late Show with Letterman. The bit about the 500 pound guy
"wHats thE deAl WitH....."
There was an episodes of the Simpsons based on that one joke about glasses and braces 😬
Jerry looks the same today as he did in 1982.
You know he alters the waist size number on his jeans, right?
His standup got a lot better
Why can't I put this on any of my lists?
Romper Room just may be more accurate.
I wonder if the LA weatherman bit was the inspiration for Steve Martin's LA Story... anybody know Steve well enough to ask him?
I though the same thing! I guess it's not a super original thought, but still an interesting connection.
~Trav
This isn’t very funny, but it is interesting. Thanks!
Guys he was still new calm tf down. Plus you have to remember on letterman, the guest is the joke so I could imagine him being more nervous.
Cool...
But, what's up with that sweater/shirt?
You can see how Larry David was the funny behind the partnership.
and, ironically, he also turned out to be the better actor
Oh here we go with all the junior TV critics. What's the deal with RUclips 😆 Jerry had plenty of funny One liners on his show
I wonder what he would say about this set today?
Likeable, Smikable. That guy will never amount to anything.
Was a comic more likeable than the persona Jerry Seinfeld presented on stage?
How about that laugh at the end….
Caught me off guard, too. Not sure why. Guess I haven't ever heard him genuinely laugh before
Referencing Romper Room...This is an old clip.
Talented kid. Whatever happened to him?
The comments on here trashing him are hilarious. Guess what folks, all your favorite comedians think Jerry Seinfeld is a master and had it from pretty much the beginning, including Larry David. All humor is a matter of taste, but you can't deny his virtuosity when you understand the nuts and bolts and how difficult this is.
But all humor is also about context and as time goes on, and the world and culture and the people in it change, the lens may shift further and further away. I've heard Seinfeld say that comedy doesn't change, and while that may be true in the purest sense, how it hits each generation's sensibilities and perspectives does. So the humor in a thing may have to be found and presented in a different way to truly kill.
Seinfeld is just a lousy but polished comic; there are plenty of comedians prior to his time whether clean or dirty that are actually laugh out loud funny. His observations of the mundane could be funny if he didn't have such mediocre takes on a subject.
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Jeez I was waiting for an Ovaltine bit
It's called Roundtine.
Didn't he do this bit on Carson?
who are these people? I mean, hey.
why do they call an airplane an airplane? to me it's not plain at all. why not call it an airfancy? I mean, hey.. why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? I mean hey? who are these people?
Sorry to be “that guy”, but Robert Hughes actually only weighed 1,049lbs according to his gravestone.
i think this guy has a bright future
yeah....he should do a sit com or something........
It's funny to think of a time when Seinfeld was 'inventive'
Microcosm of the macrocosm of his career...he got funnier as he went along, thankfully.
this is horrible lol, some comics belong writing material for shows, if this guy could somehow get a gig on a network and have a show, he'd be GOLD, GOLD JERRY
Naw baby Jerry
being a famous comedian then must have been so easy
This Seinfeld kid. He'll never make it.
It's a merger of Cosby and Robert Kline.
Before he got poisonously cynical.
Do you mean Letterman or Seinfeld?
Gee like most of the people I see commenting on this video Lol- cynical
Jerry here looks and sounds like that likeable nerd from high school.
Who are. These people?
He had no Idea that he was fixin to become close to a billionaire.
The most talented thing about Jerry Seinfeld is that he is friends with Larry David
Wrong
Seinfeld was a very successful stand-up comedian before the TV show started.
@@udishomer5852 I know a lot of talentless people who are successful.
Not really. Larry had the wacky ideas. Jerry knew how to make them work. They needed each other at the beginning.
Yeah and Thad has had such a hugely successful stand up and TV career Lol. Anyone can get on the internet and just criticize stuff for the sake of it
I see nothing here that predicts whats to come
Not even that kick-ass maroon argyle sweater?
Who would have guessed?
Something so funny about this. It’s weird.
This kid is going to need a lot of luck to make it in this business ;)
this young comedian will never make it.
He certainly didn't become famous for his talent in comedy. I wonder what then 🤔
Bob Hughes was a little over 1,000 pounds and died in 1958 at the age of 32. This Seinfeld routine was taped in 1982. But, of course, Jerry Seinfeld, for his weight...funniest guy in the world.
Remind me a bit of Chris Rock
Jerry Seinfeld has been doing Stand-Up for almost *50 years.* It’s crazy just to think about how many jokes he must have written after 50 years of Stand-Up.
It’s even crazier to think that someone can write jokes for 50 years, without writing a single one that is funny.
Lol. He is just not funny. Kind of, but in reality, not.
It's interesting how a bitter cynical RUclips commenter can post so many comments for so many years and not one being interesting or funny. It's even crazier to think they think they're funny when they're not but just jealous.
@@Mrshoujo exactly. I still watch Seinfeld a lot I've laughed at a Lot of his jokes. If you dislike Jerry so much lol why are you watching the video in the first place
He made a point of disposing his old jokes in a documentary, and starting over with a new routine.
Whhaaat's the deal with Argyle?
This reminds me of when I was 10 and first saw Seinfeld perform on Carson. He was generic, vaguely arrogant, but not funny. To this day he's never been funny. The Seinfeldshow was great though. Larry David is a genius.
this guy is terrible... he'll never have a long running highly rated sitcom
Jerry was never a great standup guy, but he was good enough. What set him apart was when he got a sitcom offer he found a great writer and they absolutely crushed it. If it wasn't for Larry David he probably would have done 2 or 3 seasons and moved on.
Everybody Hates Seinfeld
When Jerry was allowed to say all those jokes he thinks would get you cancelled now. Risqué anti-woke jokes like "What's the deal with the weather map?" and "What's the deal with wearing braces as a kid?".
Seinfeld's early stand up was never funny to me.
I loved the tv show, but was always confused by how funny it was and how unfunny his standup was.
I love Jerry but I’m glad he got better with age. This wasn’t bad but it’s not THAT funny.
He sounds like he's got a slight speech impediment, like his lower lip is numb or something.
Hes dressed like a lawn jockey and starts talking about the weather. Hes really never been funny has he?
He looks like Ellen Degeneres
Never was a fan of his standup like I was about the show. Nevertheless, he’s a very wealthy man.
If he told those fat jokes nowadays he’d be canceled