Comedy Relief - Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen Seinfeld

b. April 29, 1954

American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer

Observational comedy, Clean comedy, Deadpan

Awards -

Primetime Emmy

Golden Globe

3 Screen Actors Guild

3 Webby Awards

4 Grammy Nominations

Comedy Central - 12th Greatest Stand-Up Comedian of All Time (2004)

Rolling Stone - 7th Greatest Stand-Up Comedian of All Time (2017)

Seinfeld 

1989 - 1998

Co-created and wrote with Larry David

One of the most acclaimed & popular sitcoms of all time

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

2012 - 2019

Web series

4 stand-up specials -

Stand-Up Confidential (1987)

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)

Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017)

23 Hours to Kill (2020)

Books -

SeinLanguage (1993)

Halloween (2002, children's)

Is This Anything? (2020, comedic compilation)

Special interests -

Coffee, Automobiles, Transcendental Meditation

Influences -

Richard Prior, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Don Rickles*

*"Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy"

Jerry Lewis, Abbott and Costello, and others

Monty Python - "They were just about silly, funny things that meant nothing, and that's the stuff I love."

Those influenced by Jerry Seinfeld -

John Mulaney, Ellen DeGeneres, Nate Bargatze, and others

Comedy album collection -

Lenny Bruce - Thank You Masked Man (1972)

George Carlin - Class Clown (1972)

Steve Martin - Let's Get Small (1977)

Bob Newhart - The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960)

Mike Nichols and Elaine May - Improvisations to Music (1958)

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner - 2000 and One Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (1961)

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Queens College (1994)

Honorary Doctor of Arts, Duke University (2024)

Filmography

(Wikipedia)

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