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Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: Seinfeld . The show ran on NBC for nine seasons, winning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe and People’s Choice awards, and was named the greatest television show of all time in 2009 by TV Guide, and in 2012 was identified as the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.

His latest Emmy-nominated Netflix projects include Jerry Before Seinfeld and 23 Hours to Kill along with the highly acclaimed web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee . Seinfeld has also starred in, written, and produced movies (Comedian, Bee Movie ), directed and produced a Broadway hit ( Colin Quinn Long Story Short ), and wrote three best-selling books ( Is this Anything? , Seinlanguage , and The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book ) and a children’s book ( Halloween ). He will star in the upcoming comedy film, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story , which he directed, co-wrote, and produced. Seinfeld continues to perform both nationally and internationally.

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• Date Dec. 16 , 2023
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America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, comes to the Miller High Life Theatre stage to perform his newest stand-up on Saturday, December 16! Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.

Our last show with Mr. Seinfeld was on January 24th, 2020… just prior to the Pandemic. And those shows were AMAZING… fresh, vibrant and full of life! He owned the Riverside stage on this day and every person at those shows saw a master at work, who loved his work! We are excited for his return.

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Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will link up for a special run of arena shows this fall.

The joint, four-date stand-up tour will kick off Nov. 3 at the Chase Center in San Francisco, followed by stops in Los Angeles (Nov. 4) and Chicago (Nov. 10). The run will wrap Nov. 11 at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis.

Tickets will go on sale next Friday, June 16, at 10 a.m. local time, though several presales will take place starting June 14. Full info is available on Gaffigan and Seinfeld’s respective websites.

In a statement, Seinfeld said of the tour, “Jim and I met doing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and have been talking about doing this for years. We finally made the schedules work out.” 

Meanwhile, Gaffigan cracked, “I’m so excited to help out this unknown up and upcoming comedian who many may have never heard of. I know it will be an amazing bunch of shows.”

Seinfeld is also reportedly finishing up his new movie, Unfrosted , a comedy about the creation of the Pop Tart, partly inspired by his famous stand-up bit about discovering the breakfast treat as a kid. Seinfeld directed and co-wrote the movie, which will be his first major film project since the 2007 animated flick Bee Movie . Unfrosted will star Gaffigan, as well as Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, James Marsden, Jack McBayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, and Sarah Cooper.

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America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, comes to the Capitol Theatre stage in Wheeling, West Virginia, to perform his newest stand-up routine on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 7pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 18, at 10am! Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.

Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: “Seinfeld.” The show ran on NBC for nine seasons, winning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe, and People’s Choice awards, and was named the greatest television show of all time in 2009 by TV Guide, and in 2012 was identified as the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.

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Jerry Seinfeld can’t stay away from the stage.

The 68-year-old funnyman has lined up nearly 50 shows from Oct. 2022 all the way until July 2023.

That includes 20 (!) shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre as part of his ongoing monthly residency from November through March and two gigs at Atlantic City’s Borgata Casino Event Center on Dec. 10 and April 22, 2023.

At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on NYC tickets was on Vivid Seats for $189 before fees.

Orchestra seats start at $446 before fees.

For those planning to cross state lines into New Jersey, you can snag Borgata tickets for as low as $171 before fees for the Dec. 10 performance.

However, Seinfeld isn’t just taking his talents to the Northeast.

He’ll also play multiple dates in Arizona , Florida , Washington, D.C. , Las Vegas and Iowa , to name just a few locales on his comprehensive tour itinerary.

Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up tour dates

Rather than forcing you to slog through a ton of ticketing sites, we took initiative and found the best upper level and lower level seats on Vivid Seats for all 20 of Seinfeld’s Beacon Theatre shows from November through March.

Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.

Upper level tickets start at $187

Lower level tickets start at $559

Friday, Nov. 18 at 9:30 p.m.

Lower level tickets start at $326

Saturday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.

Lower level tickets start at $258

Saturday, Nov. 19 at 9:30 p.m.

Lower level tickets start at $330

Friday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m.

Upper level tickets start at $201

Lower level tickets start at $358

Friday, Dec. 16 at 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17 at 9:30 p.m.

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Friday, Jan. 20 at 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 21 at 9:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3 at 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 4 at 9:30 p.m.

Friday, March 3 at 7 p.m.

Friday, March 3 at 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 4 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 4 at 9:30 p.m.

(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout .)

For a closer look at Seinfeld’s complete calendar, including all 64 dates, venues, show start times and links to buy tickets, click here .

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There’s no release date yet, but Seinfeld is set to star alongside big names Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer and Hugh Grant in the true story chronicling the advent of the Pop Tart.

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Mark Schiff, Jerry Seinfeld’s longtime opening act, brings tefillin on tour

( JTA ) — Mark Schiff has been opening for Jerry Seinfeld on tour for 25 years, and along the way, he has brought his tefillin.

Schiff said he tries to stay as observant as he can on the road, participating in Shabbat services either at a nearby synagogue or in his hotel room. But he’s modest about his commitment.

“I really hope God marks on a curve,” he joked.

In a memoir released late last year titled “Why Not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah,” Schiff details his life and career, from inauspicious beginnings as a kid growing up in New York City to becoming a working comedian alongside a bevy of generation-defining Jewish comics.

While he isn’t a household name like Seinfeld or some of his other peers, the penultimate chapter of his book is full of encounters with enough boldfaced names to make Forrest Gump jealous. Schiff has collaborated in various ways with Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Rodney Dangerfield, Carl Reiner, Paul Reiser and more. He was a regular guest on late-night shows such as “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with David Letterman,” and he landed specials on both Showtime and HBO. Since the 1970s — when he successfully invited Bob Dylan over to his apartment and befriended Anthony Hopkins during his Broadway run of “Equus” — the Bronx native seems to have also met just about every single one of his heroes. 

For the most part, Schiff’s proximity to these stars came as a result of persistent work over a long period of time. But even for that, Schiff is grateful. 

“I wouldn’t trade those days for anything, and neither would any of the friends whom I started with,” he writes in his book. “On any given night, there were twenty of us vying to go on. There wasn’t any other way to put it except that I never felt so alive.”

Schiff still “works clean,” avoiding those famous four-letter words, in part because that’s what most comics did before the advent of streaming and HBO, and in part because of his dedication to his faith. He has always incorporated Jewish jokes into his sets and barely changes his material for audiences that he knows will be heavily Jewish.

As he shared over the phone, Schiff, 71, first caught the comedy bug at 12 years old, when his parents took him to the Boulevard Night Club in Rego Park, Queens, to see Dangerfield, a Jewish comedy legend who arguably got plenty of respect .

“Rodney bust through the curtains and he started telling these one-line jokes and the audience was banging on the table, screaming laughing. I looked at my parents; I had never seen them laugh so hard in their entire life. And I had an epiphany…I said, ‘This is it. I know what I want to do for a living,’” Schiff recalled in a phone interview. 

From left: Jay Leno, Mark Schiff, Larry Miller, Paul Reiser, Jimmy Brogan and Jerry Seinfeld at Miller’s wedding in 1993. (Courtesy of Schiff)

From there, Schiff did everything he could to learn the craft of comedy: Watching comedians on TV, buying comedy records and, when he was 16 years old, procuring a fake ID so he could see the greats in person at the The Improv comedy club. Cut to the mid-70s, and Schiff found himself performing regularly at the Comic Strip club alongside stand-ups who were just trying to learn the ropes before going on to dominate our TV screens.

“There was no Seinfeld, there was just this guy Jerry who was just starting out becoming a comedian,” Shiff said. Their group included Reiser, Gilbert Gottfried, Hiram Kasten and Larry Miller. “All Jews, sitting at the bar, waiting for the opportunity to get onstage and start getting good at this thing. You know those friends you make like early on in school? Like second grade, they kind of become your friends for life? This is what happened with us.” 

Schiff, now a longtime Los Angeles resident, has filled his book with so many behind-the-scenes anecdotes of being a working comedian that it makes the perfect follow-up to “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” — and it might be even more Jewish. For instance, his use of the Yiddish word shmendrick might not be completely unique, but it’s more rare to find a humorous take on the concept of olam ha-ba, or Judaism’s afterlife-adjacent “world to come” : “Florida without the humidity. Chocolate cake without the calories. Jewish mothers without the screaming.”

By the time the COVID pandemic hit, Schiff had been contributing essays to the LA Jewish Journal. When his touring schedule evaporated, he shifted gears and started writing for six, seven hours a day.

“I had a bunch of stories already written and they’d been published, and then the pandemic hit and I said, ‘You know, Mark, you might have a book here,’” he said.

He also had some helpful prior experience. In 2007, Schiff co-authored “I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America’s Top Comics,” which “young comedians consider…almost like the bible of the road,” Schiff brags. The book gives the reader glimpses into the ups and downs of the touring life from comedy royalty, from Seinfeld to Joan Rivers to Larry David to Mike Myers.

Schiff’s stand-up experience served him well in writing this new memoir. “Each story’s about 700 words, and as a comedian, you gotta get to it right away. You gotta get to the heart of the matter immediately,” he said. “You can’t piddle. So there’s very little piddling in this…I could’ve called the book ‘No Piddling’ if I wanted to. Very little piddling going on.”

Despite the ups and downs that Schiff’s book recalls — from a tumultuous childhood to a bout with alcoholism — Judaism and steadfast belief in God are the driving forces of his life. For instance, learning about lashon hara — scandalous gossip that the Bible forbids — taught him to stay away from “punching down” in comedy. (“Although, in order for something to be funny, you certainly have to pick at something,” Schiff conceded. “They don’t call it a punchline for nothing.”)

Schiff decided to be a comic after seeing Rodney Dangerfield perform. (Courtesy of Schiff)

When he’s at home in Los Angeles, he attends services at Young Israel of Century City, a Modern Orthodox congregation. Together he and his daughter-in-law Anna are studying the late Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Torah talks.

The marriage of Schiff’s comedic point of view with his cultural heritage might feel like a throwback to the comedians of yore, the ones he looked up to when comedy first ensnared him, such as Alan King, Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles and Allan Sherman. They ruled the comedy world, at a time when, per Schiff, “85% of the comedians in the United States were Jewish,” and they helped legitimize comedy as a career path for him.

“Later on in life I found out that in many ways the Jews, Jewish comedians, really legitimized Jews in America,” Schiff said. 

Despite all that’s changed about comedy in the four-plus decades since Schiff first started — very few keep their material “clean” these days, for instance — he said the industry is still based around “one person and a whole bunch of people sitting out there looking at him or her.” 

“And as Jerry says, ‘You better have something more important that you’re going to say than they have to say, otherwise they’re not going to laugh.’”

When asked why he still feels drawn to the road, Schiff said “There’s no better feeling than listening to an audience howling and laughing.”

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Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: Seinfeld. The show ran on NBC for nine seasons, winning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe and People’s Choice awards, and was named the greatest television show of all time in 2009 by TV Guide, and in 2012 was identified as the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.

His latest Emmy nominated Netflix projects include Jerry Before Seinfeld and 23 Hours to Kill along with the highly acclaimed web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Seinfeld has also starred in, written, and produced movies (Comedian, Bee Movie), directed and produced a Broadway hit (Colin Quinn Long Story Short), and wrote three best-selling books (Is this Anything?, The Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee and Seinlanguage) and a children’s book (Halloween). He will star in the upcoming comedy film, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, which he directed, co-wrote, and produced. Seinfeld continues to perform both nationally and internationally.

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Jerry Seinfeld & Jim Gaffigan Live At the United Center

SECOND SHOW ADDED! JS Touring has announced that comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will add a second show to their stop in Chicago at the United Center on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 7:30pm. Their Friday, November 10th date broke a United Center record as the fastest selling comedy show in the venue’s history.  The two comedians will embark on a four-arena tour together this fall for the first time ever.

Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan, in partnership with JS Touring, will embark on a four-arena tour together this fall for the first time ever, bringing the show to the United Center in Chicago on November 9 & 10. 

“Jim and I met doing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and have been talking about doing this for years,” said Jerry Seinfeld . “We finally made the schedules work out. Can’t wait.”

“I’m so excited to help out this unknown up and upcoming comedian who many may have never heard of,” said Jim Gaffigan. “I know it will be an amazing bunch of shows."

Start your Friday night early at the United Center from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM before Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan bring the laughs! Enjoy this all-inclusive preshow party featuring... Private Entry Live Music Open Bar with Specialty Cocktails Passed Appetizers 360° Glam Cam Limited tickets are available now for $125 per person!

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Take I-290 East to exit 28A (Damen Avenue). Take Damen Avenue north to Madison Street. Make a right onto Madison Street and the building will be on your right.

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Take the Orange, Green, Purple, or Brown lines to Madison. Take #20 Madison buses west.

To the United Center : The #19 United Center Express Bus runs on game days. Service begins 90 minutes prior to game time, runs every 10 minutes until 30 minutes until start of game. Board at stops starting southbound on Michigan and Randolph. Connections are made with Metra trains at Millennium Station, Ogilvie Center and Union Station. The #20 Madison Bus travels west on Madison Street, starting downtown at Wabash Street and runs every few minutes, making all stops to the United Center.

From the United Center : The #19 United Center Express and the #20 Madison buses run every few minutes, departing from the eastbound side of Madison Street. Buses make all stops.

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PLEASE NOTE: Parking lots and Uber lot open to public two and a half hours prior to event time.

All prices are subject to change without advance notice.

All major credit cards accepted. The United Center offers free parking for select family shows in all official United Center parking lots. All Parking Policies outlined below remain in effect.

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EV Charging Stations EV Charging Stations are available in Lot H and Lot K. Charging is free. Please be courteous and maintain parking/charging for the posted time limits. 

Parking Policies No in/out privileges. No overnight parking unless related to event activites and approved in advance. No solicitation allowed. No consumption of alcoholic beverages on lot or in parked vehicles. No tailgating or similar activities.

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SpotHero We recommend booking convenient and affordable parking in advance through SpotHero, the nation's leading parking reservations app. To reserve your parking spot, visit the United Center SpotHero Parking Page .

Fans visiting the United Center can also reserve their parking in advance via  Ticketmaster .

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Two reserved parking passes will be valid in lots C and K. The other two reserved parking passes will be for parking in lots A, B, D, or L. Holders of these passes will be directed to A, B, D, or L lots by traffic police and parking attendants based on traffic conditions. Parking passes are good for one space each. All parking passes are mobile entry only.

For all special events, each Executive Suite Holder will receive two complimentary parking passes per event ordered. These two passes will be for reserved parking located in lots C and K. In addition, Executive Suite Holders will also receive the option to purchase four additional parking passes in lots C and K for special events.

Suite Holder parking passes are also valid for buses or limousines under specific guidelines.

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Lexus Club Seat members have reserved parking in fenced, well-lit and clearly marked parking lots adjacent to the United Center for all Blackhawks or Bulls preseason, regular season and playoff games. All Lexus Club members who purchase tickets to other events may also purchase one preferred parking pass (in lot C or K) for such events. Details on how to obtain parking for other events are included with the fax transmission announcing each event.

Lexus Club Seat members with two to four tickets receive a complimentary, reserved parking space in a closed-in, paved lot for all Blackhawks or Bulls preseason, regular season and playoff games. Lexus Club Seat members with five seats or more will be provided with two parking passes.

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What is the Uber Zone (Lot E) at the United Center? To increase and streamline the fan experience for guests who take Uber to and from the United Center, the new Uber Zone is located at the corner of Madison Street and Wood Street (Lot E) and will combine the three former Uber locations around the arena. Traffic leading to the three prior Uber pickup locations 1) Zone A, previously located on Wood Street & Washington Blvd. near Lot A, 2) Zone D, previously located on Monroe Street & S. Paulina Street near Lot D and 3) Zone F, previously located on Monroe Street & Seeley Ave. near Lot F will now be directed towards the one new Uber Zone in Lot E.

What is the location of the Uber Zone? The new Uber Zone at the United Center is located on the corner of Madison Street and Wood Street. Fans will enter and exit through the sidewalk entrance located on Madison Street and cars will enter the lot by turning into the Uber Zone from Madison Street. Cars will exit on Warren Blvd.

What are the hours of operation? On event days, the Uber Zone is open two hours prior to games, concerts and events and will remain open up to one hour after each event. On non-event days, the Uber Zone will be closed and Uber rides will be dropped off near the corner of Madison Street and Wood Street outside of the Uber Zone.

What is the pickup process for fans?

• Using the Uber app, fans inside the United Center will call an Uber ride.
• Guests will then head to the new Uber Zone located at the corner of Madison Street and Wood Street in front of the United Center.
• When arriving, fans will show the Uber attendant the lane number their driver is in.
• Fans will be shown the location where their Uber vehicle is located to start their next journey.

What is the dropoff process for fans? When Uber drivers arrive with guests at the United Center, they will be instructed to pull into the Uber Zone from the Madison Street side to drop off fans. Once exiting the vehicle, guests will walk out of the main entrance located on the corner of Madison Street and Wood Street. Guests can cross the street to the United Center and are encouraged to enter through the East Atrium.

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America's favorite standup comedian and sitcom star is coming to a venue near you in 2024, and Jerry Seinfeld fans won't want to miss out on his hysterical new set! Tickets are available for every stop on the tour, and if you act now, they can still be had at surprisingly affordable prices.

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Jerry Seinfeld Live

Weidner Center for the Performing Arts Friday, April 20, 2024 | 7 PM

GREEN BAY, WI – The Weidner, and JS Touring, announced today that America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, will perform on The Weidner’s Cofrin Family Hall stage on Saturday, April 20, 2024 .

America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, comes to Green Bay to perform his newest stand-up routine. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, December 19, at 10am ! Seinfeld has been hailed for his uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.

Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: “Seinfeld.” The show ran on NBC for nine seasons, winning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe, and People’s Choice awards, and was named the greatest television show of all time in 2009 by TV Guide , and in 2012 was identified as the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes / Vanity Fair poll.

His latest Emmy nominated Netflix projects include “Jerry Before Seinfeld” and “23 Hours to Kill” along with the highly acclaimed web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

Seinfeld has also starred in, written, and produced movies (“Comedian,” “Bee Movie”), directed and produced a Broadway hit (“Colin Quinn Long Story Short”), and wrote three best-selling books (Is this Anything?, Seinlanguage, and The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book) and a children’s book (Halloween). Seinfeld recently announced his upcoming film Unfrosted and continues to perform both nationally and internationally.

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It’s been more than a quarter of a century since Seinfeld ended its nine-season run on NBC, and Jerry Seinfeld says he’s “a little bit” bothered by how the sitcom ended.

In a new interview, the stand-up comic talks about the TV show finales that he thought were great and discussed how he was not completely satisfied with how the characters ended up in a jail cell.

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He continued, “I think Mad Men was the greatest final moment of a series I’ve ever seen. So satisfying. So funny. And they said that they had sat and watched the Seinfeld finale, trying to figure out what went wrong. And it was obviously about the final scene, leaving them in the jail cell…”

The Seinfeld series finale saw Jerry, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards) end up in jail after violating a Good Samaritan law in a small town.

Seinfeld said that the people behind the series “were affected by some things that people had said,” calling the characters “selfish or whatever.”

“And looking back on it, I think they were great! I love them,” he added. “First of all, you’re not doing comedy without self-directed individuals. That’s an essential element of comedy, since Shakespeare and forever. You can’t do comedy without selfish people. That’s what people relate to.”

During the same interview, Seinfeld discussed the state of the Hollywood industry and said that “the movie business is over.”

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