I loved that part. The woman seemed to agree though. Had no real idea why they were sat wearing the headphones. It's almost like - oh it's what people do now. Glad Jerry called it out as nonsense.
Kramer: “Jerry, you in the headphone zone?” Jerry: “Nooooo! No zone. I dont like the zone. I dont want the zone. Keep. Me. Out. Of. The. Zone. Im a no-zoner.” Kramer: *stumbles around* “you need the zone jerry!” *slams the door behind him*
: ) Nice. -Well, he is genyus, but he is NOT a genius. If you can't defend yourself, and you know anything about Life on Earth and you still have not learned to defend yourself, and You "rely" on others.......ahhh... God bless Us!!! : )
They wouldn't air it if someone argued with him. I'm sure some of CICGC is scripted but with so many comedians they tend to get along and have real banter. I'd like to see Jerry banter with Paul Mooney!
They hardly ever show anyone even politely disagreeing with Jerry on CICGC. I'd like to see a little more back and forth with him and his guests, just to see what their real opinions are.
What he seems to mean is that Mark knows he got lucky so he works really hard to avoid losing it. I would think that Jerry might think something similar of himself
It's amazing how many of you think he's arrogant. He's been doing this his whole adult life and has it down to a science. When you get to that level, there's nothing wrong with being direct. He's just very honest in interviews, plus he lives for comedy so he's quite often angling for a laugh. So many haters. You should all check out some Jerry Lewis behind the scenes, you'd lose your lunch.
@@scarletsjazz6472 I didn’t say anything about should. Just the observation that he is arrogant. You could make the argument that he’s earned the right to treat his fans like shit. That’s great if you’re into S&M
@@stazi7532 I would say Comedy is really a subjective thing. Seinfeld is interesting and sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's just observational and I think that kind of persona that you eluded to is what makes him so famous "He's Kinda funny" I think that's the quote that best describes Seinfeld. Having said that, he does something that other Comedians can't do which is identify with People on a individual level even though we all know he is wicked rich. He is literally "Average White Guy" but he isn't, I think that persona he talked about is the thing that makes him "Safe" which is why "Kinda Funny" and "Safe" is how he gets his check, it's actually pretty genius tbh
There is a reason Jerry Seinfeld is so successful. He's disciplined. He understands how the "mechanics" of language works. And he strives for the efficient use of language so that no word is wasted and that there are no unnecessary words getting in the way of the joke and the laugh.
Hes a comedy scientist. His show on netflix really shows that side of him. It's so great to see accomplished comedians talk about their passion in such technical ways.
africaRBG this right here . He’s a comedy technician , more interested in the actual structure of a joke and what specific word makes it funny and so on .
What's cool is that Jerry proudly announces his age and that, as a result, he has done it all in relation to comedy. I like his honesty. He is not only funny but he is also incredibly smart about what is funny and why.
Wow many of the comments miss the mark with this interview. I almost didn't watch because of the comments but I'm glad I did watch - his feedback and advice are invaluable not just to comics but any artist. And watch how he actually listens to Fortune and Papa, really understands their challenges and gives advice to help them; e.g. create a secure block of time on your calendar, have an office away from home where you can go to create, don't be affected by "critics".... such good advice here,. Thank you Netflix, Jerry, Papa, and Fortune (by the way, never heard of Fortune before and started watching her after this!! The greatest kindness you can do is help someone achieve their dreams!)
Rodney Dangerfield wrote hundreds of thousands of pages through his career, as did Carlin, 2 of the arguably best ever, how could anyone doubt the value of actual writing
There is documentation from after Rodney died, he had hundreds of notebooks and trunks filled with pages of jokes from almost 60 years of non stop writing starting with his failed first foray into comedy
Great stuff! Informative and funny as hell at the same time. It’s VERY hard to do what these guys do. No two people have exactly the same sense of humor. For a comic to be successful over a number of years is truly amazing.
This is gold, Jerry, gold!! (Sorry, had to do that.) But it really is gold. Watching "Seinfeld" I naturally assume everything is ironic until proven otherwise. Here I get to hear Jerry's actual opinions, techniques, approaches, philosophy. Love it!
Part of me really admires Jerry's passion for stand-up and his love of the form and those who practice it. As a working writer for 20 years, it reminds me of how writers at times romanticize what we do... and I also have to admit it can be really annoying, especially to outsiders. Very easy to come across as self-important and sometimes actually believe your own hype.
I know some comedians don't want to repeat their material, but the good ones, after a bad day at work, I find myself going back to their youtube videos and having many good laughs.
I don’t know how many times Ron White has done the “Tater Salad” story but every time he opens a joke with “I was thrown out of a bar in New York City” the crowd roars with applause without fail.
Except when talking the greats of stand up, his name always gets skipped over. It's like Stephen Seagal thinking he's really a world renowned martial artist because of his movies. He's convinced he's still one of the best even without the sitcom and... by just about anyone's standards he's not.
The Low IQ Club will never stop congratulating themselves for belonging to it, sir. But let someone outside the club remind them that they are in it, and even an unbelievably successful billionaire gets called a bum. It's all they have, don't take it from them.
People also confuse aggressiveness with assertiveness. People say "aggressive" is a virtue. They really mean assertive. Aggression repulses people, makes them angry and defensive. Aggression closes doors. Assertiveness is being ready and taking the opportunity to advance things when a door opens up.
Laughter is not approval. I make people laugh all the time. Consequently, I don’t need for them to verbally tell me I’m funny. Why are you pretending you don’t see the difference in those two things?
What actually made me a fan of Seinfeld was his show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Netflix. As a millennial, I only saw a small amount of Seinfeld (the sitcoms). Watching CICGC, I got to see Jerry for who he really is. I have to say, the guy makes me laugh. His natural personality is really funny. He's an oddball, and that's what makes him appealing. He has a unique perspective on the mundane aspects of everyday life, which is where he shines. He also comes across as a genuinely interesting person to have a meal with, someone who is intelligent enough to have a good conversation with you over a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, which is a refreshing thing in the digital age we currently live in. I appreciate Seinfeld and his "60's and 70's" perspective as a man in his early 30's. It is pleasant, funny and intellectual.
That's interesting. I watched a couple episodes of the cars show and it didn't really grab me. I mainly remember his sitcom, which I watched a little in HS and mainly in college, some mid-late 90s but mostly early 2000s, even though it was mostly to all reruns at that point. I don't know why, but it's interesting to hear a younger persons perspective on this. Although I'd like to hear an older person's as well on account of the fact that when I finally watched "How I Met Your Mother" I was sorta blown away in that I had never seen a show that so perfectly matched my age/demographic/generation, with not only characters exactly the same age as me, but that was super in tune with all these little cultural things from all ages throughout my life from early childhood until then in various references and such. I'd never had that experience with anything on television before. I have heard some much younger people say that (HIMYM) is a shitty cookie cutter generic stock sitcom, and it might have been to me if I didn't relate to so many subtle little details in it, idk. It was interesting to see a younger person "not get it" as I had previously seen many sitcoms the same way he did. But then that experience and seeing others not get it, made me wonder about folks the same age as Seinfeld, which started in like the late 80s or early 90s (don't remember exactly which atm). Seinfeld had been my favorite sitcom for years (not sure when it became less relevant or memorable to me exactly over the years, but it left a lasting impression in my teens and twenties which I guess eventually faded over time), but I was mainly watching reruns almost a decade after they first aired in the early 2ks, when I was probably ~20 years younger than the original target audience. So then I wondered if I had been mid/late twenties or early 30s, whatever it was, when it originally aired, if I would have enjoyed it even more because of cultural stuff that went over my head like HIMYM did for others? Or was what Seinfeld was doing more timeless stuff while HIMYM was more just cultural references for a very particular age group and time? Although that said, idk that old Seinfeld episodes are as funny as they used to be, party because then it was original and now it's effects are "in the water", as it were. Although maybe some watching it the first time would enjoy it more than I now as I long since knew the best of it pretty well. Anyway, I don't have those answers. But it's interesting to observe yet a younger generation that is a fan of Seinfeld, but for completely different reasons. Time is a funmy thing. I sorta wonder what things will be like in another 20 years, and how much perspectives will vary between me and those who are much younger. Most likely, time will tell.
I loved it as you got to know his guests as people, and not as someone doing a performance. I thought if Jerry picked me up for coffee, just how bad it would go. I could talk and chat like everyone else, but it would be the most uninteresting video of anyone's life. His guest really are fun people to be around. Thank you Jerry.
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728 If you watch the Seinfeld outtakes (bloopers) here on RUclips you see the principals laughing, repeatedly unable to deliver their lines. Neither you nor I, nor the other cast members, for the most part, seem to get the inside joke.
Mista Lee It was filmed in front of a live studio audience. That’s like saying, “Have you listened to Hotel California backwards ? ..it’s just disturbing..”
I don't think Jerry's a snob, he just takes his job seriously. E.g. when they were talking about stand-up specials being handed out like candy because people are insatiable for content. So of course the quality will be lower. (Hell, why do you think the news is a shitshow?) If you don't think that these days there is more emphasis on being liked and being visible, well, that's the point of social media. When he was talking to Michael Richards on CiCGC, MR said he wished he'd enjoyed his time on the show more. Jerry responded that he wished he had as well, but that wasn't his job. His job was to make people laugh. He was there for the audience, not himself. It's also about taking the craft of writing seriously. When he was talking to Garry Shandling for the Larry Sanders DVD, he also spoke of acting being overrated and good writing being underappreciated, which I completely agree with. I went to drama school (waste of a loan and time) and learned that performers are NOTHING without craftsmen like writers and designers to give them a place to work. Because of that, I've always been pro-writer. A stage manager I knew in undergrad told me of a shirt a lighting friend had: "fuck with me, act in the dark." Talking with Garry, he tells a hypothetical critic of jokes being repeated, "you write a joke." One other thing that made me laugh, he expressed sympathy for the "heartrending" plight of actors: "I want to be hugely famous because I can say things that other people will think of." I have nothing against actors, but if there's a group of people that always needs the piss taken out of them, it's performers. Joe Rogan has hilarious bit re: actors on a really old podcast, talking to Tim Ferriss /watch?v=bYV_PzbbnEY
Being intelligent can be a lonely place... Jerry is more than capable at what he does,and has always lived his own life.... Whatever happened to being insightful?
Jerry is an artisan, and one of those comedians that consider comedy a very serious business, and has to craft the joke little by little, like in modules. I think his process is fascinating and an art form by itself
@@haitiancreolewithluciano actually he is factually funny, worth 700 millions, largest fan base,long running tv show, movie writer,, award winning netflix series, top 10 stage show sellers in the world, referenced by worlds top comedians like Louis Ck, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Sebastian Maniscalco, etc. confirmed funny. Like to see your shit ass counter argument. Go back under a rock. Also Katt williams is funny but not even close to Seinfeld.
Just in case anyone wants to know the reason radio people wear headphones and TV people do not. :) In radio, the person doing the interview is also the sound engineer. They have to listen for the end of the commercial so they can talk. They have to be able to hear the song that they are introducing if they are talking over the intro. The speakers in the room turn off whenever a microphone is turned on to prevent a feedback look or echo from the microphone picking up the song or commercial. Therefore, they must wear headphones or else they can't hear when to talk. Also, during an interview, they have to control the volume of everyone's mic in real time so they wear headphones to hear what the live feed sounds like and adjust accordingly. In TV, you have a sound engineer who does all this for you and a floor director to tell you when to talk. Sorry, but I couldn't resist. :)
So Jerry Seinfeld knows he’s funny, and he’s “arrogant “ about his talent? Take a look at ANY of the really great comics and tell me this isn’t a common personality trait. This is part of what makes them great. I’ve seen Jerry twice in person and he is brilliant. No dirt, no politics, just observations about life, about “nothing” that turns an audience into paroxysms of laughter. He knows he’s a genius at what he does. He loves doing it. Coincidentally he is making a lot of money making people happy. Good for him! 👍
There are many greats who weren't. Dangerfield, Shandling, Robin Williams . In fact one of the most common trait of comedians is neurosis, lack of self confidence, and hating yourself. Jerry isn't like that at all, which is why many have trouble with this video. It also helps that he's the most financially successful comedian in human history.If his TV show had failed, and it was a major miracle it stayed on the air at the beginning, and Jerry struggled for material or comedy had passed him by, he would be something very different. He's still very defensive about using old material in this video.
These personal traits can simultaneously co-exist; Jerry is BOTH, humorous AND a jerk. Watch his Netflix, comedians drinking coffee series. Outside of his guests, Jerry treats people like shit.
Watching a great comedian perform a great series of jokes is like watching a great musician perform a great series of songs. I always want to hear them again!!
Here you've got a true comedy great - with a unique style that he developed - talking straight up about the process of comedy, and people just want to hate and criticize what they themselves cannot do. Here's an alternative idea: how about try to enjoy the podcast? This is GOLD. Mine it!
@@bcdrummer1962 wait... did we not watch the same video? The one where Jerry Seinfeld is bitching about how Dave Chappelle is doing stand up comedy wrong? lol
Part of what makes Jerry successful is his brutal honesty. He is honest about himself and honest about his life and passion--which is comedy. For him it is an art. One that he has developed over many years. The best way to take Jerry is to think of him as an artist, and like Hemingway says about art, you have to find the truth. That takes guts.
The key to Seinfeld's stand-up has been confidence and delivering his jokes in ways to prompt laughter (it's time to laugh folks) even though what he is saying is not particularly funny or witty.
Seinfeld's humor is about stating the obvious which is not obvious to everyone. It is about applying an alternative perspective to the mundane and everyday occurrences of life. Like why are you using headphones. The humor about nothing is about that which is everyday life questioned from the perspective of the humorist using the tools of an anthropologist surveying a distinct culture. Insights which trigger one's discomfort about seeing oneself from the awkward perspectives we often avoid or simply have never realized about how we act or what motivates us. That's Seinfeld. But it really feels like his time is over. The reason being that his humor relies on a level of humility in which he shares these observations as if standing along side us being as bemused as we become. Instead, he is gradually exhibiting a certain superiority and arrogance as though he has figured it all out and no longer depends on others getting the joke. He "doesn't want your feedback" because he is certain of his own funniness. In "Comedian's in Cars..." he flaunts his success in the style of Jay Leno's Garage and purports that "Comedians" have some special monopoly on humor! Most of those shows are just obnoxious and rely on star power and materialism, not humor.
Jerry co Wrote seasons 2-6 and Fully Wrote 7-9 arguably some of the best. Yes, Larry David is the true genius behind it, but Seinfeld is factually funny.
Guybrush Threepwood Ehhh, nah. There are people everywhere that are legitimately good at what they do and extremely successful but are also arrogant as hell. Hubris and ego are not signs of confidence, they are signs of arrogance
Just wanted to say, I really enjoyed your last comedy special. And your tv show has had an enormous impact on pop culture. Pray tell, what is your secret to success?
Just watched Jerry’s special from 1987. It’s hysterical and has aged very well. He does a lot of cereal material in that special. The man is very dedicated to cereal!
I was just thinking last week about a cotton ball bit from decades ago, (Jerry did on Carson) that still is humorous. Most comedy does NOT age well. He is a Master.
Jerry Seinfeld is exactly like his sitcom character, without the parents or friends to keep him in check. A self-involved narcissist whose observations drive him to the point of pedanticness. He's a great comedian. I wouldn't really care to be his friend, and that was probably the most unrealistic part of Seinfeld - how well received his character was always received by literally goddamn everyone... ....in other words....Newman was the real hero!
Yes. The self involvement was charming as a satire of young adults coming up, but the real life Arrogance is offputting and immature. (And I'm actually a fan).
"great" comedian, not stand up right? the only criteria to being 'comedic' is that you make people laugh.. the show brought him that by giving him lines while acting like himself. but i credit the genius to larry david. i mean if you watch curb, you see where it actually comes from. seinfeld is a crap stand up, so not sure what the title 'comedian' would mean outside of stand up. his whole schtick is that he is Seinfeld from _Seinfeld_ . he's not really anything if you take away the show.. why not call him a narcissistic (comedic) actor?
eschatological Other than the fact that they both make observational humor, he’s nothing like the character he plays. Have you actually watched the show?
People hate Seinfeld because he doesn't care what you think. American society operates on being able to manipulate other people into feeling guilt or pity or shame, but that doesn't work on him. He's immune to the modern day social tactics that keep people in line and following the script, so people hate him.
I think it's larry just being a more exaggerated version of Larry. But I can definitely see scenes where Larry is a lot like Jerry, or Larry is a lot like George. But I think all of it was inspired by Larry. But Curb does use some of the same writers as Seinfeld I think.
I wouldn't say we manipulate people into feeling guilt or pity as a society. His comedic style is to be as blunt as possible and it works for him because he is embracing who is as a person but he also happens to be funny. He truly doesn't care for a lot of "norms" and he talks about that in a comedic way that keeps people interested. He is still a narcissist.
@@dasterslice6416 Sure we do. People manipulate people even when they don't realize it. It's not always malicious. We have all done it to some degree or another, aware of it or unaware of it, but emotional manipulation almost certainly exists in all facets of society. Watch a politician speak, watch how they drum up support for law, watch the news, watch a commercial, watch a sitcom, movie, read a book, stare at a painting, etc. It's all over the place.
Great conversation, very interesting. They’re clearly talking about very personal stuff - what it’s like to create entertainment and live as that person.
Jerry is open and honest and it's refreshing. Better to acknowledge the massive success and make fun of it than to pretend it doesn't exist. Most superstars lose their marbles because they're trying to pretend they deserve the success. Jerry laughs at it and says "here's how I did it". One of the few celebrities that let's you see who he is.
You do it not so you can hear yourself for your own benefit but so you can hear how your listener will receive you. Once they took off the headphones they weren't conscious about their microphone placement. It sounded worse.
You don't think Jerry Seinfeld is naturally funny you don't think if you put him in an office setting or a cubicle or some Warehouse or a kitchen well let's face it he's probably more of a waiter type that he would be the funniest guy at the job what do you do for a living may I ask
OJ Pistorius there’s no correlation with what you’re saying and my comment I don’t think he’s naturally funny that’s just it. It’s not fact it’s just an opinion
I refuse to use headphones in when I worked on radio. I could hear the monitor fine. But managers kept bugging me "put them on". I'm glad Jerry brought it up.
Sometimes calls are taken, sometimes there are recorded segments to hear. As a host you get cues from engineer, and also, you can hear if someone is off-mic & correct it.
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I don't think he is as funny as he knows funny. His stand up before Seinfeld wasn't hilarious like an Eddie Murphy or a Bill Burr. More just amusing like a Jay Leno or Louie Anderson. I can't ever think of a "laugh out loud" moment involving Jerry that didn't involve someone funnier than him being the cause of laughing out loud.
I agree. I can name about 10 comics who make me laugh. Seinfeld never makes me laugh. He memorizes a routine and does it a million times. He hit gold with Seinfeld.
Mitzi Shore wouldn't give him spots back then, thus contributing to him working even harder, so wtf are you all here saying the same things she did back then for?
This is so full of shit, seriously like complete bullshit, Jerry was an extremely funny stand up, the problem is when your at the top everyone copies you and you become a caricature of your self, so the best comment that can be made is at the time Jerry , Jay leno, etc were all killing it , now comedy stylings have changed, but the guys still funny, difference is he has go fucck you money.
@@fernandograca698 They wear headphones to monitor the actual on-air feed of the station so they can hear what the listener hears during times the microphones are turned on. If you’ve never recorded your voice or worked in radio or podcasting, the only way you’ve heard yourself is through your cheekbones. And since everyone else is standing out in front of you when you speak, you’ll never hear yourself the way other people do. Unless you wear headphones. It gives you a huge amount of control when it comes to adjusting your voice and presentation style on the fly. Joe Rogan tells people to wear headphones all the time because it makes people better at communicating. They will tend to talk over each other less etc.
I am the world's biggest Seinfeld (sitcom fan) but honestly, Jerry by himself is not that funny. But the show was so culturally significant, Seinfeld carries so much weight, people in the industry want to or have to fawn over him. Larry David is 1000% more funny by himself or as a standup. I'm not saying Jerry is not funny, he just ain't all that by himself. The stars really aligned for him when the Seinfeld cast and writing team came together and Jerry has proven masterful at playing that hand.
Jerry has been good at standup long before the Seinfeld show. That's how he got the show. Everyone else on the Seinfeld show never did standup. Michael Richards tried it after and we all know how that went.
The most valuable parts of this interview happened also be some of the most important content I've ever learned on RUclips - to paraphrase, how Jerry illustrates that part of building success many times includes both having the discipline to set a certain amount of time aside every day when possible to create without distractions. The other (and possibly the most important part 4 me) was about somewhat successful people having some bad physical habits etc.… Then he talks about the people ABOVE THAT (who are SUPER successful) having a SYSTEM to their lives. The concept of "every minute of every day being laid out and planned" is quite foreign to the way I live my life, but I can see the lack of that being one of my biggest failings. SUPER informative my friends - thanks for posting this video!
Arrogant or not he does sound passionate about what he does and has a good work ethic. I enjoy hearing comedians talk about the craft of making comedy.
Yeah that anecdote totally turned me off. I get not wanting to answer questions like that but you just admitted it's an intelligent question and then shit on the guy who asked it. Is it too much to say, "good question but I don't like to answer questions like that"? Jerry's haughtiness has always been a sticking point to me.
@@beebeegee I was trying to think of the word to describe what bothers me about this older Jerry and it's definitely haughtiness lol. It would be a dream to talk about comedy and jokes with somebody like Jerry, but I feel like he'd find out you have less than 40 years of comedy experience and doing stand up and then tell you why it's hard to be as funny as he is.
“A joke is a miracle” (so treat it as such, and enjoy the show without overthinking the process). nobody said ‘yo Jesus we saw you restore sight to one guy, don’t you think giving this guy his legs back is just a bit hacky?’ NO. Crowds gathered, hoped they might be on the fish and bread act night and ultimately got to go tell friends they were with the crazy parable guy. Your job as the audience is not to judge the act - enjoy it or don’t. His job is not to judge the audience - joke at em or don’t. Everyone’s got a role.
I came here to be cynical and be like " screw you, Jerry!" And instead, I got so many pearls of wisdom that I didn't count on! 1. Blocking off time to write 7am to noon 2. Create a system 3. Have a place to go to write. All of these things are very doable! "Thank you, Jerry!"
Amazing how many people are critical of one of the objectively greatest comedians alive. Always amazes me how jealous or unkind people can be. That's why Teddy Roosevelt wrote "it's not the critic that counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better .. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena"
Jerry is a successful veteran of a very hard and unforgiving profession, that chews people up and spits them out..I could listen to his insights all day long! I use his advice to improve my sales marketing work!
So much insight and good disciplines from Jerry Seinfeld. This applies not only for comedians but anyone in the creative field. Unless you're living alone, you can forget the home office. You must be alone. This is why you need a nice cubicle
It's not Jerry Seinfeld's fault for being naturally brilliant, he just is and accepts it, deal with it. Thanks for bringing laughter and joy into the lives of so many people Mr Seinfeld, much respect.
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I love how he comes in like, "What's the deal with headphones?" Classic Seinfeld.
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Classic douche...
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I loved that part. The woman seemed to agree though. Had no real idea why they were sat wearing the headphones. It's almost like - oh it's what people do now. Glad Jerry called it out as nonsense.
Better is how no one in the room is wearing headphones ten seconds after he says it.
Jerry Seinfeld loves Jerry Seinfeld.
It is his sense of humour if you think about it.
Why wouldn’t he?
Is that comment Jerry speaking in the third person?
He’s really becoming unlikable
I felt/feel the same thing. Someone needs to remind him that he tells jokes for a living. In another time he would have been the court jester.
Kramer: “Jerry, you in the headphone zone?”
Jerry: “Nooooo! No zone. I dont like the zone. I dont want the zone. Keep. Me. Out. Of. The. Zone. Im a no-zoner.”
Kramer: *stumbles around* “you need the zone jerry!” *slams the door behind him*
This deserves more credit
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Don't wanna disappoint you mate, but you totally nailed the spirit of the Frank Caliendo Seinfeld impression.
@@simondan3828 Frank is great.
I don't *wanna* be in headphones!
Jerry has become the guy from Seinfeld who wanted people to call him "Maestro".
"Joke Nazi"
Lmfaoooooo so true
is a kind of bojack horseman
If he had a cigar, he would be the George character when he made money on a stock (I think it was). Have another dessert!
@@ladytruth303 Hee hee. Okay. Her her. Whatever.
If you're not sure that Jerry Seinfeld is a comic genius than just ask him, he'll let you know.
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: ) Nice. -Well, he is genyus, but he is NOT a genius. If you can't defend yourself, and you know anything about Life on Earth and you still have not learned to defend yourself, and You "rely" on others.......ahhh... God bless Us!!! : )
@@steadtv 🙂 right.. ...
@@steadtv ...what?
You ask him! (Turns head away to audience; raises sarcastic eyebrows) RIP Don Rickles
Jerry - “What if we just took a year”
Coronavirus - “Say no more Jerry!”
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And we got the pop tart movie from it.
This segment titled "Agreeing with Jerry, yup uh huh"
Jonathan Garmuth completely, 3 people, 1opinion...
Same thing with Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. No one ever disagrees with him on that show.
I like that show though, genuine car enthousiast and nice guests
They wouldn't air it if someone argued with him. I'm sure some of CICGC is scripted but with so many comedians they tend to get along and have real banter. I'd like to see Jerry banter with Paul Mooney!
They hardly ever show anyone even politely disagreeing with Jerry on CICGC. I'd like to see a little more back and forth with him and his guests, just to see what their real opinions are.
I like how he straight up told his wife, “I’m going to start acting differently.” No mystery.
i am watching a radio show. the 21st century is really something.
I’m actually wishing this was only radio so it won’t kill my phone battery 😂
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That's nothing. Wait until we get holograms... of radio shows. 😄😂🤣
Who could have predicted that talking never went out of fashion
Mark Wahlberg is just one of those guys that got lucky. - Jerry Seinfeld
When I tell a joke, I am performing a miracle. - also Jerry Seinfeld
Hahahahahahaha!
marks brother was in a huge boy band he got lucky as hell
What he seems to mean is that Mark knows he got lucky so he works really hard to avoid losing it. I would think that Jerry might think something similar of himself
Re: Mark Wahlberg, to be fair, he did add, "... which applies to us too."
wrong, he said good jokes are miracles...not my jokes are miracles
It's amazing how many of you think he's arrogant. He's been doing this his whole adult life and has it down to a science. When you get to that level, there's nothing wrong with being direct. He's just very honest in interviews, plus he lives for comedy so he's quite often angling for a laugh. So many haters. You should all check out some Jerry Lewis behind the scenes, you'd lose your lunch.
Jerry Lewis wasn't funny either. If Seinfeld thought you were going to ask him something on the street he would cross to the other side to avoid you.
He’s not funny though
@@pacer6694 Troll on.
@@markuschelios6891 why shouldn’t he? 😂
@@scarletsjazz6472 I didn’t say anything about should. Just the observation that he is arrogant. You could make the argument that he’s earned the right to treat his fans like shit. That’s great if you’re into S&M
Jerry saying “the real me is alone” is the deepest shit I’ve heard in a long time.
All greats are alone
I love the uncomfortable laughing at things that are not funny in case Jerry meant for them to be funny.
😂😂😂
I dont love that, it's irritating, although it became better towards the end
Exactly the guy hasn’t been funny in decades and walks around talking shit because the crowds are forced to laugh at him because of the name
@@stazi7532 or because they have a different opinion than you. Comedy is subjective.
@@stazi7532 I would say Comedy is really a subjective thing. Seinfeld is interesting and sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's just observational and I think that kind of persona that you eluded to is what makes him so famous "He's Kinda funny" I think that's the quote that best describes Seinfeld. Having said that, he does something that other Comedians can't do which is identify with People on a individual level even though we all know he is wicked rich. He is literally "Average White Guy" but he isn't, I think that persona he talked about is the thing that makes him "Safe" which is why "Kinda Funny" and "Safe" is how he gets his check, it's actually pretty genius tbh
There is a reason Jerry Seinfeld is so successful. He's disciplined. He understands how the "mechanics" of language works. And he strives for the efficient use of language so that no word is wasted and that there are no unnecessary words getting in the way of the joke and the laugh.
Bruce Maurer No, the reason Seinfeld is so successful is because of Larry David.
@@CipherSerpico actually, LD only wrote through about 5-6 seasons and Jerry finished it out very successfully.
Hes a comedy scientist. His show on netflix really shows that side of him. It's so great to see accomplished comedians talk about their passion in such technical ways.
@@CipherSerpico How much you want to bet Jerry convinced Larry not to play George.
africaRBG this right here . He’s a comedy technician , more interested in the actual structure of a joke and what specific word makes it funny and so on .
The statement of 5 years to build a great hour is the first time I have heard a comedian get specific about writing good stuff.
What's cool is that Jerry proudly announces his age and that, as a result, he has done it all in relation to comedy. I like his honesty. He is not only funny but he is also incredibly smart about what is funny and why.
His voice never changes! He sounds EXACTLY the same as 30 years ago!
Because he's quiet IRL
Clean living. That means he doesn't drink or smoke or strain his voice
Wots the deal with that😮😊
Wow many of the comments miss the mark with this interview. I almost didn't watch because of the comments but I'm glad I did watch - his feedback and advice are invaluable not just to comics but any artist. And watch how he actually listens to Fortune and Papa, really understands their challenges and gives advice to help them; e.g. create a secure block of time on your calendar, have an office away from home where you can go to create, don't be affected by "critics".... such good advice here,. Thank you Netflix, Jerry, Papa, and Fortune (by the way, never heard of Fortune before and started watching her after this!! The greatest kindness you can do is help someone achieve their dreams!)
Jerry also said ignore the critics.
Rodney Dangerfield wrote hundreds of thousands of pages through his career, as did Carlin, 2 of the arguably best ever, how could anyone doubt the value of actual writing
Philip Yepez only an idiot
they wrote a lot but not hundreds of thousands of pages
@@waynelast1685 u wanna bet?
There is documentation from after Rodney died, he had hundreds of notebooks and trunks filled with pages of jokes from almost 60 years of non stop writing starting with his failed first foray into comedy
Philip Yepez ok maybe I’m wrong, but just seems like that much paper is not correct but ok .
Jerry seems more old school and honest, than many newer comedians
I like his process and deliverance. A unique and funny man
Stop clicking on your YT recs cuz, you lost in a propaganda.
@@edmonix6457 so are you. you just don't know it
Seinfeld has always been waaaay darker than people think. His comedy is always on the edge of being incredibly angry. He’s a man suppressing all of it
I like this
Yeah, living with that sarcasm, yikes
I’ve noticed this too.
Sets him apart from Bill Burr in that Burr admits that he's mad?
Suppressing it? Hardly.
I spent a most delightful hour with Jerry on the radio in Minneapolis, MN. He was a guest on the show. He was fun, funny, and kind.
Jerry works very hard and methodical to write jokes and block out his routine. He has earned all his success.
Yes, we know.
It’s not that big of a deal to block out a couple hours in a day to do your profession
Great stuff! Informative and funny as hell at the same time. It’s VERY hard to do what these guys do. No two people have exactly the same sense of humor. For a comic to be successful over a number of years is truly amazing.
I liked this interview, it seems like a conversation between friends, very honest and insightful...I think I learned something
Seeing Jerry laugh is so absolutely satisfying.
Jerry Seinfeld is a comedic genius !!
You ask him he will tell you.
This is gold, Jerry, gold!! (Sorry, had to do that.)
But it really is gold. Watching "Seinfeld" I naturally assume everything is ironic until proven otherwise. Here I get to hear Jerry's actual opinions, techniques, approaches, philosophy. Love it!
Seinfeld is soo good
Haha Jerry goes in and tells them how to do their job.... That's so Seinfeld, love it.
Part of me really admires Jerry's passion for stand-up and his love of the form and those who practice it. As a working writer for 20 years, it reminds me of how writers at times romanticize what we do... and I also have to admit it can be really annoying, especially to outsiders. Very easy to come across as self-important and sometimes actually believe your own hype.
"your brain is like a dog, he wants the treats and you can make it do anything"
couldn't have ended it better!!!
A joke is a miracle. I like that. "Seinfeld" will become synonym for self-assurance.
I know some comedians don't want to repeat their material, but the good ones, after a bad day at work, I find myself going back to their youtube videos and having many good laughs.
I don’t know how many times Ron White has done the “Tater Salad” story but every time he opens a joke with “I was thrown out of a bar in New York City” the crowd roars with applause without fail.
Honesty is very funny . I think a lot confuse arrogance with confidence. Jerry is great and he knows it. .
Except when talking the greats of stand up, his name always gets skipped over. It's like Stephen Seagal thinking he's really a world renowned martial artist because of his movies. He's convinced he's still one of the best even without the sitcom and... by just about anyone's standards he's not.
The Low IQ Club will never stop congratulating themselves for belonging to it, sir. But let someone outside the club remind them that they are in it, and even an unbelievably successful billionaire gets called a bum.
It's all they have, don't take it from them.
Jerry kinda fucking sucks man.
Yes and good confidence comes from being well prepared.
People also confuse aggressiveness with assertiveness. People say "aggressive" is a virtue. They really mean assertive. Aggression repulses people, makes them angry and defensive. Aggression closes doors. Assertiveness is being ready and taking the opportunity to advance things when a door opens up.
I'd imagine that he does want your feedback - he just wants it in the form of laughter.
Cmhe cannot admit that tho.
kasimk4 He has no problem “admitting” he wants people to laugh. That is his profession. What he doesn’t need is approval and disapproval.
@@michaelmcdonald8452 Dude..laughing is approval. Duh...Duh...tell me you are not an air traffic controller!
Laughter is not approval. I make people laugh all the time. Consequently, I don’t need for them to verbally tell me I’m funny. Why are you pretending you don’t see the difference in those two things?
@@michaelmcdonald8452 perhaps they're not pretending maybe they were hit on the head as a child
Jerry: What if we didn't do anything for a year?
2020: I got you.
What actually made me a fan of Seinfeld was his show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Netflix. As a millennial, I only saw a small amount of Seinfeld (the sitcoms). Watching CICGC, I got to see Jerry for who he really is. I have to say, the guy makes me laugh. His natural personality is really funny. He's an oddball, and that's what makes him appealing. He has a unique perspective on the mundane aspects of everyday life, which is where he shines. He also comes across as a genuinely interesting person to have a meal with, someone who is intelligent enough to have a good conversation with you over a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, which is a refreshing thing in the digital age we currently live in. I appreciate Seinfeld and his "60's and 70's" perspective as a man in his early 30's. It is pleasant, funny and intellectual.
That's interesting. I watched a couple episodes of the cars show and it didn't really grab me. I mainly remember his sitcom, which I watched a little in HS and mainly in college, some mid-late 90s but mostly early 2000s, even though it was mostly to all reruns at that point.
I don't know why, but it's interesting to hear a younger persons perspective on this. Although I'd like to hear an older person's as well on account of the fact that when I finally watched "How I Met Your Mother" I was sorta blown away in that I had never seen a show that so perfectly matched my age/demographic/generation, with not only characters exactly the same age as me, but that was super in tune with all these little cultural things from all ages throughout my life from early childhood until then in various references and such. I'd never had that experience with anything on television before.
I have heard some much younger people say that (HIMYM) is a shitty cookie cutter generic stock sitcom, and it might have been to me if I didn't relate to so many subtle little details in it, idk. It was interesting to see a younger person "not get it" as I had previously seen many sitcoms the same way he did. But then that experience and seeing others not get it, made me wonder about folks the same age as Seinfeld, which started in like the late 80s or early 90s (don't remember exactly which atm).
Seinfeld had been my favorite sitcom for years (not sure when it became less relevant or memorable to me exactly over the years, but it left a lasting impression in my teens and twenties which I guess eventually faded over time), but I was mainly watching reruns almost a decade after they first aired in the early 2ks, when I was probably ~20 years younger than the original target audience. So then I wondered if I had been mid/late twenties or early 30s, whatever it was, when it originally aired, if I would have enjoyed it even more because of cultural stuff that went over my head like HIMYM did for others? Or was what Seinfeld was doing more timeless stuff while HIMYM was more just cultural references for a very particular age group and time?
Although that said, idk that old Seinfeld episodes are as funny as they used to be, party because then it was original and now it's effects are "in the water", as it were. Although maybe some watching it the first time would enjoy it more than I now as I long since knew the best of it pretty well.
Anyway, I don't have those answers. But it's interesting to observe yet a younger generation that is a fan of Seinfeld, but for completely different reasons. Time is a funmy thing. I sorta wonder what things will be like in another 20 years, and how much perspectives will vary between me and those who are much younger. Most likely, time will tell.
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@@TheJeremyKentBGrossthanks for the novel.
I grew up watching Seinfeld, and I agree Comedians in Cars is hilarious.
I loved it as you got to know his guests as people, and not as someone doing a performance. I thought if Jerry picked me up for coffee, just how bad it would go. I could talk and chat like everyone else, but it would be the most uninteresting video of anyone's life. His guest really are fun people to be around. Thank you Jerry.
The older I get, and I am really old, I find am less able to handle the two things that this interview presents in overabundance: fawning and boredom.
have you seen the seinfelds withOUT the laugh tracks ?.. they're just disturbing..
@@mistaleesreversespeech7728 If you watch the Seinfeld outtakes (bloopers) here on RUclips you see the principals laughing, repeatedly unable to deliver their lines. Neither you nor I, nor the other cast members, for the most part, seem to get the inside joke.
@@Joe1935429 I think the punchline we never get is the jewish supremacy thing .
Fawning especially
Mista Lee It was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
That’s like saying, “Have you listened to Hotel California backwards ? ..it’s just disturbing..”
A joke is a miracle…love that. Jerry will always make me laugh….he’s the absolute best. Thank you for this episode ❤
I don't think Jerry's a snob, he just takes his job seriously. E.g. when they were talking about stand-up specials being handed out like candy because people are insatiable for content. So of course the quality will be lower. (Hell, why do you think the news is a shitshow?) If you don't think that these days there is more emphasis on being liked and being visible, well, that's the point of social media. When he was talking to Michael Richards on CiCGC, MR said he wished he'd enjoyed his time on the show more. Jerry responded that he wished he had as well, but that wasn't his job. His job was to make people laugh. He was there for the audience, not himself.
It's also about taking the craft of writing seriously. When he was talking to Garry Shandling for the Larry Sanders DVD, he also spoke of acting being overrated and good writing being underappreciated, which I completely agree with. I went to drama school (waste of a loan and time) and learned that performers are NOTHING without craftsmen like writers and designers to give them a place to work. Because of that, I've always been pro-writer. A stage manager I knew in undergrad told me of a shirt a lighting friend had: "fuck with me, act in the dark." Talking with Garry, he tells a hypothetical critic of jokes being repeated, "you write a joke." One other thing that made me laugh, he expressed sympathy for the "heartrending" plight of actors: "I want to be hugely famous because I can say things that other people will think of." I have nothing against actors, but if there's a group of people that always needs the piss taken out of them, it's performers.
Joe Rogan has hilarious bit re: actors on a really old podcast, talking to Tim Ferriss /watch?v=bYV_PzbbnEY
I couldn't agree more, Sam!
Being intelligent can be a lonely place... Jerry is more than capable at what he does,and has always lived his own life.... Whatever happened to being insightful?
@@user-hk7xm5pu1c at least you didn't waste *too* much time on this trenchant remark
Jerry is an artisan, and one of those comedians that consider comedy a very serious business, and has to craft the joke little by little, like in modules. I think his process is fascinating and an art form by itself
*Still not funny though*
@@haitiancreolewithluciano actually he is factually funny, worth 700 millions, largest fan base,long running tv show, movie writer,, award winning netflix series, top 10 stage show sellers in the world, referenced by worlds top comedians like Louis Ck, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Sebastian Maniscalco, etc. confirmed funny. Like to see your shit ass counter argument. Go back under a rock. Also Katt williams is funny but not even close to Seinfeld.
Now if he could craft a punchline that wasn't a wornout trope your grandpa uses, he might still have a career.
@@dianemurray6550 yeah poor guy, what a loser eh diane?
@@juanaltredo2974 just a hasbeen.
Just in case anyone wants to know the reason radio people wear headphones and TV people do not. :)
In radio, the person doing the interview is also the sound engineer. They have to listen for the end of the commercial so they can talk. They have to be able to hear the song that they are introducing if they are talking over the intro. The speakers in the room turn off whenever a microphone is turned on to prevent a feedback look or echo from the microphone picking up the song or commercial. Therefore, they must wear headphones or else they can't hear when to talk. Also, during an interview, they have to control the volume of everyone's mic in real time so they wear headphones to hear what the live feed sounds like and adjust accordingly.
In TV, you have a sound engineer who does all this for you and a floor director to tell you when to talk.
Sorry, but I couldn't resist. :)
So Jerry Seinfeld knows he’s funny, and he’s “arrogant “ about his talent? Take a look at ANY of the really great comics and tell me this isn’t a common personality trait. This is part of what makes them great. I’ve seen Jerry twice in person and he is brilliant. No dirt, no politics, just observations about life, about “nothing” that turns an audience into paroxysms of laughter. He knows he’s a genius at what he does. He loves doing it. Coincidentally he is making a lot of money making people happy. Good for him! 👍
There are many greats who weren't. Dangerfield, Shandling, Robin Williams . In fact one of the most common trait of comedians is neurosis, lack of self confidence, and hating yourself. Jerry isn't like that at all, which is why many have trouble with this video. It also helps that he's the most financially successful comedian in human history.If his TV show had failed, and it was a major miracle it stayed on the air at the beginning, and Jerry struggled for material or comedy had passed him by, he would be something very different. He's still very defensive about using old material in this video.
@belleserpente Considering he plays to sold out shows throughout the country, many people think he's funny too.
He does, did, the work.
Paroxysms?
Best comment. Only smart people love Seinfeld and the Seinfeld tv show.
If Jerry wasn't so funny he'd be the biggest jerk in history.
Matthew Myers Couldn’t agree more. He’d boring af to hang out with but the older I get, the more I agree with him.
I agree
These personal traits can simultaneously co-exist; Jerry is BOTH, humorous AND a jerk. Watch his Netflix, comedians drinking coffee series. Outside of his guests, Jerry treats people like shit.
Matthew Myers Well he’s still a jerk. He’s just a funny jerk.
But he IS funny, so you have no idea what he'd be like if he wasn't. Your comment makes zero sense.
Watching a great comedian perform a great series of jokes is like watching a great musician perform a great series of songs. I always want to hear them again!!
Here you've got a true comedy great - with a unique style that he developed - talking straight up about the process of comedy, and people just want to hate and criticize what they themselves cannot do. Here's an alternative idea: how about try to enjoy the podcast? This is GOLD. Mine it!
People aren't criticizing his comedy, they're criticizing his personality, he's an asshole
@@radhiadeedou8286 "he's an asshole..."? How the fuck do you know what Jerry Seinfeld is like? Answer: you don't.
@@bcdrummer1962 wait... did we not watch the same video? The one where Jerry Seinfeld is bitching about how Dave Chappelle is doing stand up comedy wrong? lol
I just love this guy! I’m seeing him live again in December. I’m so excited.
i'm excited for you! I have a special in a local mexican restaurant's back stage that i promise you will be just as funny for 1/100th the cost.
"treat your brain as a Schnauzer"....best piece of advice I've ever heard!!!
Part of what makes Jerry successful is his brutal honesty. He is honest about himself and honest about his life and passion--which is comedy. For him it is an art. One that he has developed over many years. The best way to take Jerry is to think of him as an artist, and like Hemingway says about art, you have to find the truth. That takes guts.
Jerry is so conceited you'd think he made a billion dollars with comedy or something.
wait a minute...
He doesn't need a billion dollars to be confident like that.
Well he has it anyways
The key to Seinfeld's stand-up has been confidence and delivering his jokes in ways to prompt laughter (it's time to laugh folks) even though what he is saying is not particularly funny or witty.
@@e7725 Can I hire you to be my manager? I need some of that simple marketing in my life!
Jerry’s that guy who you just can’t do without. He might not be the most loved, but it’s definitely not the same without him.
This was brilliant and way, way worth seeing for all creatives, imo. Seinfeld is a maestro. TY.
No, no -- Bob Cobb is the maestro
yeah yeah you heard Louis CK describe him that way.
@23chrisfm omg you are hilarious!! How do you come up with these jokes dude, genius
@23chrisfm I just farted
Seinfeld's humor is about stating the obvious which is not obvious to everyone. It is about applying an alternative perspective to the mundane and everyday occurrences of life. Like why are you using headphones. The humor about nothing is about that which is everyday life questioned from the perspective of the humorist using the tools of an anthropologist surveying a distinct culture. Insights which trigger one's discomfort about seeing oneself from the awkward perspectives we often avoid or simply have never realized about how we act or what motivates us. That's Seinfeld. But it really feels like his time is over. The reason being that his humor relies on a level of humility in which he shares these observations as if standing along side us being as bemused as we become. Instead, he is gradually exhibiting a certain superiority and arrogance as though he has figured it all out and no longer depends on others getting the joke. He "doesn't want your feedback" because he is certain of his own funniness. In "Comedian's in Cars..." he flaunts his success in the style of Jay Leno's Garage and purports that "Comedians" have some special monopoly on humor! Most of those shows are just obnoxious and rely on star power and materialism, not humor.
You broke it down perfectly! 💯
Brilliant assertation mate, couldn't have put it any better.
Yep. Still not funny though
@Paulonbass OnBass You said that. I analyzed it a bit deeper, but if that's all you got out of it, well that's just you.
The 'Comedians' show is basically a mobile talk show, like The Tonight Show only with one guest per episode.
Jerry "I cant handle critism" Seinfeld
I would like to see Seinfeld on a black radio show. We like Seinfeld too
Radio doesn’t have to be black or white , listen to whatever you want man !
You should stop making a difference between “ethnicities” .
@@moresquatsmoretwats6298 Agreed!
Absolutely. I would love to see him not get along with Charlamagne.
Wow, that would be great!
I would like to see the rule that says that black people have to listen to black radio.
Jerry was the straight man to LD’s every other character. He wasn’t the funniest part of the show but it wouldn’t have worked without him.
He was the straw that stirred the drink.
He's supposed to be "you" in the show... Relatable, controlled, that's how you amplify the wild supporting casts personalities
Jerry co Wrote seasons 2-6 and Fully Wrote 7-9 arguably some of the best. Yes, Larry David is the true genius behind it, but Seinfeld is factually funny.
A lot of folks here are confusing confidence with arrogance.
"Do you know who I am"?
- Jerry Seinfeld
ub2bn yes. It’s not confidence. It’s arrogance.
@@SonnyGTA It's also a reaction to non-stop ignorance and entitlement to a person who doesn't suffer fools lightly.
Guybrush Threepwood Ehhh, nah. There are people everywhere that are legitimately good at what they do and extremely successful but are also arrogant as hell. Hubris and ego are not signs of confidence, they are signs of arrogance
Just wanted to say, I really enjoyed your last comedy special. And your tv show has had an enormous impact on pop culture. Pray tell, what is your secret to success?
Jerry Seinfeld is excited for you that you get to hear him.
He would find this sentence so funny :')
It was good :3
😂😂😂 you couldn't have said it any more true
@Cancel OK #Jealous
MacClellandMan these are the best comments ever....
13:04 is straight up The Nerd Crew laugh that makes fun of that laugh 😂
Oh cripes yes, this is the comedy podacast equivalent of what the Nerd Crew is ridiculing!
Just watched Jerry’s special from 1987. It’s hysterical and has aged very well. He does a lot of cereal material in that special. The man is very dedicated to cereal!
I was just thinking last week about a cotton ball bit from decades ago, (Jerry did on Carson) that still is humorous. Most comedy does NOT age well. He is a Master.
Jerry Seinfeld is exactly like his sitcom character, without the parents or friends to keep him in check. A self-involved narcissist whose observations drive him to the point of pedanticness. He's a great comedian. I wouldn't really care to be his friend, and that was probably the most unrealistic part of Seinfeld - how well received his character was always received by literally goddamn everyone...
....in other words....Newman was the real hero!
Yes. The self involvement was charming as a satire of young adults coming up, but the real life Arrogance is offputting and immature. (And I'm actually a fan).
Excellent observation. Richard lewis is more "human" and down to earth/ Seinfeld is intoxicated with himself. He would be a horrible friend.
"great" comedian, not stand up right? the only criteria to being 'comedic' is that you make people laugh.. the show brought him that by giving him lines while acting like himself. but i credit the genius to larry david. i mean if you watch curb, you see where it actually comes from. seinfeld is a crap stand up, so not sure what the title 'comedian' would mean outside of stand up.
his whole schtick is that he is Seinfeld from _Seinfeld_ . he's not really anything if you take away the show.. why not call him a narcissistic (comedic) actor?
No, I dont think he is a narcissist, just very sure of himself when it comes to comedy. He may be a tad overconfident at times but that's about it.
eschatological Other than the fact that they both make observational humor, he’s nothing like the character he plays. Have you actually watched the show?
Jerry is a living legend for a reason!!
He jsnt really funny
Yeah because of Larry David
I really enjoyed this chat. Jerry is so cool and confident. I need to be like this with my painting.
People hate Seinfeld because he doesn't care what you think. American society operates on being able to manipulate other people into feeling guilt or pity or shame, but that doesn't work on him. He's immune to the modern day social tactics that keep people in line and following the script, so people hate him.
Is Larry David's character on Curb based on Jerry?
I think it's larry just being a more exaggerated version of Larry. But I can definitely see scenes where Larry is a lot like Jerry, or Larry is a lot like George. But I think all of it was inspired by Larry. But Curb does use some of the same writers as Seinfeld I think.
@Bobby Brady he's just at that point in his career son.
I wouldn't say we manipulate people into feeling guilt or pity as a society. His comedic style is to be as blunt as possible and it works for him because he is embracing who is as a person but he also happens to be funny. He truly doesn't care for a lot of "norms" and he talks about that in a comedic way that keeps people interested. He is still a narcissist.
@@dasterslice6416 Sure we do. People manipulate people even when they don't realize it. It's not always malicious. We have all done it to some degree or another, aware of it or unaware of it, but emotional manipulation almost certainly exists in all facets of society. Watch a politician speak, watch how they drum up support for law, watch the news, watch a commercial, watch a sitcom, movie, read a book, stare at a painting, etc. It's all over the place.
Jerry is real. Jerry is honest. Jerry is generous. Jerry is focused. Jerry is mildly autistic, in a funny constructive fun way. Cheers Jerry
What the heck, I came here for knowledge and got life changing great advise. We love it
Great conversation, very interesting. They’re clearly talking about very personal stuff - what it’s like to create entertainment and live as that person.
Jerry always has an interesting take, a funny angle, on every topic. Funny mind!
Do you ever notice...haha 😉 I wanna do a segment like that but a bit different. Is it just me/do you ever feel like...?! LOL
clueless
In *THAT* way he is Canada's version of {Australian comedian} Adam Hills. 👨💻🦘 🎤🚶♂️👏
It's funny everyone is saying he's a jerk but I just see someone who is confident giving advice to people who are asking for it.
@Corpsefoot Gaming cause people pay all that money to not laugh. Sure.
Kramer would say: "Hey Jerry, what's up with those headphones?"
Yeah, while digging in Jerrys cupboards and munching on something from them at the same time after he walked in without even knocking.
Lame.
Jerry is open and honest and it's refreshing. Better to acknowledge the massive success and make fun of it than to pretend it doesn't exist. Most superstars lose their marbles because they're trying to pretend they deserve the success. Jerry laughs at it and says "here's how I did it". One of the few celebrities that let's you see who he is.
Love this guy. Brilliant. The end.
Seinfeld: headphones suck
Hosts: *immediately second guess their choice of wearing headphones like anyone else that does radio or pods*
You do it not so you can hear yourself for your own benefit but so you can hear how your listener will receive you. Once they took off the headphones they weren't conscious about their microphone placement. It sounded worse.
Sean Webb yup. It’s dumb how they took them off just bc of what he said
@@Brandon-er2ud Influence, silent but deadly lololol
That's Power!!!!!
@@vanmoody More like kissassery
I mean I admire the hard work and perseverance but personally I don’t think he’s just naturally funny
You don't think Jerry Seinfeld is naturally funny you don't think if you put him in an office setting or a cubicle or some Warehouse or a kitchen well let's face it he's probably more of a waiter type that he would be the funniest guy at the job what do you do for a living may I ask
OJ Pistorius there’s no correlation with what you’re saying and my comment I don’t think he’s naturally funny that’s just it. It’s not fact it’s just an opinion
My aunt Myrtle agrees with you. She's every bit as humorless as the name implies.
Absolutely agree with you. He wants to be in front of people, I think he should have become a professor.
In The Dm's no such thing as “naturally funny”
I love his comedy, he's always cool and nonchalant. One of the most smart comedians out there.
I refuse to use headphones in when I worked on radio. I could hear the monitor fine. But managers kept bugging me "put them on". I'm glad Jerry brought it up.
You should probably have worn them.
The answers is you have to modulate your distance from the microphone, whereas on jimmy fallon your mic is always same distance
Sometimes calls are taken, sometimes there are recorded segments to hear. As a host you get cues from engineer, and also, you can hear if someone is off-mic & correct it.
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HAHHHH.??
He’s so funny. This smug piss ant isn’t funny.
S S The ‘Real Jerk’ line is rarely done cleverly. Well done.
@@ojpistorius6369 -You said 'Norm hole', heh heh heh.
He’s 65! Looks so good.
Wow i thought he was barely 50!!! Very good
You look good
This more than about comedy, it’s about craftsmanship, work ethic and how to make great work.
The comedy business is no joke
Probably related to Michael O' Loughlin
I don't think he is as funny as he knows funny. His stand up before Seinfeld wasn't hilarious like an Eddie Murphy or a Bill Burr. More just amusing like a Jay Leno or Louie Anderson. I can't ever think of a "laugh out loud" moment involving Jerry that didn't involve someone funnier than him being the cause of laughing out loud.
This is pretty much the case. He has researched humor and understands it better than most, but isn't particularly funny himself.
I agree. I can name about 10 comics who make me laugh. Seinfeld never makes me laugh. He memorizes a routine and does it a million times. He hit gold with Seinfeld.
Jerry has always been slightly smug, it's part of his comedic style.
Mitzi Shore wouldn't give him spots back then, thus contributing to him working even harder, so wtf are you all here saying the same things she did back then for?
This is so full of shit, seriously like complete bullshit, Jerry was an extremely funny stand up, the problem is when your at the top everyone copies you and you become a caricature of your self, so the best comment that can be made is at the time Jerry , Jay leno, etc were all killing it , now comedy stylings have changed, but the guys still funny, difference is he has go fucck you money.
First minute Jerry is on the podcast he establishes dominance by making the host take their headphones off. Total asshole move. Well played
@Dennis Leavitt yeah it may have been a test. They should've told him to get lost with his idea. They use them for a reason.
@@lewiscraw8294 What is the reason?
@@fernandograca698 Status measure. It is human nature. Read on the subject of psychology for more.
@@lewiscraw8294 I meant the reason to use headphones.
@@fernandograca698 They wear headphones to monitor the actual on-air feed of the station so they can hear what the listener hears during times the microphones are turned on.
If you’ve never recorded your voice or worked in radio or podcasting, the only way you’ve heard yourself is through your cheekbones. And since everyone else is standing out in front of you when you speak, you’ll never hear yourself the way other people do. Unless you wear headphones.
It gives you a huge amount of control when it comes to adjusting your voice and presentation style on the fly.
Joe Rogan tells people to wear headphones all the time because it makes people better at communicating. They will tend to talk over each other less etc.
I am the world's biggest Seinfeld (sitcom fan) but honestly, Jerry by himself is not that funny. But the show was so culturally significant, Seinfeld carries so much weight, people in the industry want to or have to fawn over him. Larry David is 1000% more funny by himself or as a standup.
I'm not saying Jerry is not funny, he just ain't all that by himself. The stars really aligned for him when the Seinfeld cast and writing team came together and Jerry has proven masterful at playing that hand.
Jerry has been good at standup long before the Seinfeld show. That's how he got the show. Everyone else on the Seinfeld show never did standup. Michael Richards tried it after and we all know how that went.
This is excellent! Thank you for posting!
The most valuable parts of this interview happened also be some of the most important content I've ever learned on RUclips - to paraphrase, how Jerry illustrates that part of building success many times includes both having the discipline to set a certain amount of time aside every day when possible to create without distractions.
The other (and possibly the most important part 4 me) was about somewhat successful people having some bad physical habits etc.… Then he talks about the people ABOVE THAT (who are SUPER successful) having a SYSTEM to their lives. The concept of "every minute of every day being laid out and planned" is quite foreign to the way I live my life, but I can see the lack of that being one of my biggest failings.
SUPER informative my friends - thanks for posting this video!
He has an assistant, excuse me assistants - to plan his shits, wipe his ass, and tell him how lovely it smells.
I don't think I've seen a comment section so insanely unaware of the word "schtick"
RIGHT??!!
:')
Trouble is, dude, this ain't shtick. This is - unfortunately - real.
They probably don't even know what a schtickle of toothpaste is
@Kevin L Thank you
Just curious - why do you think this is a “shtick”? What gives you that impression?
Jerry waves his coffee sticks like a maestro!
All I could think about when he said doing nothing for a year was Summer of George lol
Arrogant or not he does sound passionate about what he does and has a good work ethic. I enjoy hearing comedians talk about the craft of making comedy.
16:25 "A very intelligent question." How unfortunate that it wasn't answered as respectfully as it was asked.
Yeah that anecdote totally turned me off. I get not wanting to answer questions like that but you just admitted it's an intelligent question and then shit on the guy who asked it. Is it too much to say, "good question but I don't like to answer questions like that"? Jerry's haughtiness has always been a sticking point to me.
Waaah! 😢
@@beebeegee I was trying to think of the word to describe what bothers me about this older Jerry and it's definitely haughtiness lol. It would be a dream to talk about comedy and jokes with somebody like Jerry, but I feel like he'd find out you have less than 40 years of comedy experience and doing stand up and then tell you why it's hard to be as funny as he is.
“A joke is a miracle” (so treat it as such, and enjoy the show without overthinking the process). nobody said ‘yo Jesus we saw you restore sight to one guy, don’t you think giving this guy his legs back is just a bit hacky?’ NO. Crowds gathered, hoped they might be on the fish and bread act night and ultimately got to go tell friends they were with the crazy parable guy. Your job as the audience is not to judge the act - enjoy it or don’t. His job is not to judge the audience - joke at em or don’t. Everyone’s got a role.
@@SouthAfricanAmerica A joke is not a miracle. Certainly not Jerry's.
5:30 Jerry says, “What if we did absolutely nothing for a whole year?”
2020 said, “Hold my beer.”
I came here to be cynical and be like " screw you, Jerry!" And instead, I got so many pearls of wisdom that I didn't count on! 1. Blocking off time to write 7am to noon 2. Create a system 3. Have a place to go to write. All of these things are very doable! "Thank you, Jerry!"
Rite? Listening to the conversations Jerry and other comedians have is like taking a masters class in comedy.
Same rules apply when studying....not trying to be a dick but aren't these simple things quite obvious?
This shouldn't be an epiphany. Writers, painters, poets, philosophers, inventors, et al, have been doing these things for centuries.
@@Gr8Layks and that makes it less valuable?
Amazing how many people are critical of one of the objectively greatest comedians alive.
Always amazes me how jealous or unkind people can be.
That's why Teddy Roosevelt wrote "it's not the critic that counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better .. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena"
Excellent comment. I agree 100%.
Love all 3 of these comedians. Jerry Seinfeld is a gift in my lifetime.
Jerry is a successful veteran of a very hard and unforgiving profession, that chews people up and spits them out..I could listen to his insights all day long! I use his advice to improve my sales marketing work!
I agree! If I was a young comedian I would drink every word of his up. He has so much insight.
The title of this should have been "Jerry knows he's NOT funny but wants you to think so"
He always seemed like the straight man on his own show.
So much insight and good disciplines from Jerry Seinfeld. This applies not only for comedians but anyone in the creative field. Unless you're living alone, you can forget the home office. You must be alone. This is why you need a nice cubicle
Nothing but respect for Jerry. He is a king at what he does. Also, he is hilarious.
I'm getting pretty tired of Jerry Seinfeld talking about comedy, instead of doing comedy ;)
He and Joe Rogan might be brothers separated at birth.
I know hey,I wished he'd stand up and do some jokes :)
I'm so sorry for you, I hope you can get over this. How dare he.
@@LJ7000 Projecting much? :)
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Actually I feel like his insight on comedy is far more valuable than his actual comedy.
Krammer and Costanza made the SEINFELD sitcom. Anybody could have played Jerry the straight man. But Jerrys writing was genius.
I respectfully disagree. Maybe you’re right that anybody COULD have played him, but I thought he was perfect and can’t imagine Seinfeld without Jerry.
It's not Jerry Seinfeld's fault for being naturally brilliant, he just is and accepts it, deal with it. Thanks for bringing laughter and joy into the lives of so many people Mr Seinfeld, much respect.