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This Guy Doing an Impression of Bill Burr Doing Jerry Seinfeld Jokes is Too Good

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As a longtime Bill Burr fan and someone that owned Jerry Seinfeld standup CDs back in the 90s when those were a real thing, I was pretty skeptical of this going in, but my god this guy nails it.

Stand up comedy has always been one of my favorite things to watch, not just because it’s a comedy show that makes you laugh, but because of the sheer level of talent it takes. It’s just downright impressive to watch anyone at the top of their field and comedy is no exception.

They say the No. 1 fear of the average person is public speaking. Now I’m not exactly a JFK level orator, but I’d say I’m more worried about my next flight crashing than I am about speaking in front a crowd. With that being said I can’t even fathom how good of a public speaker and storyteller you have to be to become a successful comic. I mean of course the jokes are important, but when you really drill down it’s not the jokes that make the difference. It’s the timing, the delivery, the ability to tell long, winding stories and then bring it back all while keeping a crowd engaged and entertained.

Jerry Seinfeld of course is a perfect example of that. I actually had tickets to see Seinfeld live for the first time in my life last year before ya know COVID shut down the entire goddamn world. His stand up act is considered squeaky clean by today’s standards and is a lot of observations on mundane parts of every day life. Except it’s not so much the content of the joke that kills, it’s the way he delivers the jokes with his timing and storytelling. That is some world class talent. I mean I can still recite his entire bit on sinks in airplane bathrooms or Halloween costumes as a kid.

Here’s to the world opening back up as soon it’s safe so we can all grab some drinks, sit down at a club, and just watch stand up comics go to work once again.

Seinfeld is Headed to Netflix. LETS GOO

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Hollywood Reporter – Seinfeld will be master of a new domain starting in 2021. Netflix has landed worldwide rights to the iconic sitcom in a five-year deal with distributor Sony. The show will move from current rightsholder Hulu when its deal is up in 2021…First reported by the L.A. Times, the deal will bring Seinfeld’s global streaming rights under one roof for the first time. Hulu’s current $150 million-per-year deal is for domestic rights only; Amazon has held rights in most other territories around the world…”Seinfeld is the television comedy that all television comedy is measured against,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. “It is as fresh and funny as ever, and will be available to the world in 4K for the first time. We can’t wait to welcome Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer to their new global home on Netflix.”…Acquired series like Seinfeld, Friends and The Office are huge drivers of usage on streaming platforms. Nielsen consumption data for 2018 said Netflix users in the U.S. watched about 85 billion minutes of The Office and Friends — the equivalent of about 25 hours for every Netflix subscriber in the country.

This is a Power. Move. by Netflix after losing all the Marvel properties due to the mouse launching its own streaming platform in Disney+. Oh we can’t have Iron Man 3 anymore? Alright, well I guess we’ll just go acquire the most popular TV show of all time. Imagine being good enough at anything that people will pay to watch you? Now imagine being so good that people (Netflix) will pay ($150M per YEAR) to watch you from 20 years ago. Mind boggling shit.

Seinfeld and The Simpsons have shaped my sense of humor more than any other TV show, movie, stand up comedian or any other form of pop culture in America. I can make a Seinfeld or Simpsons reference for anything and do so just about every day, much to the chagrin of my family and friends. I actually went out of my way one time to go meet the Soup Nazi in downtown Boston a couple years back.

There are few shows better suited to 11 pm reruns than Seinfeld. A 22 minute episode with multiple plot lines where I can zone in and out and fall asleep watching reruns from 20 years ago. Granted Seinfeld is on about 75% of the time I’m home on a channel somewhere anyways, but thats besides the point. Now I can watch any episode of Seinfeld at any time and that is exhilarating for a couch potato such as myself.

Netflix *really* needs to invent a random next episode option though because there is nothing worse than searching for an episode to watch. How many people spend more time browsing Netflix than actually watching Netflix? Its why theres 50 things in my queue that I never intend to actually watch. I don’t know what episode I want to watch, just play something goddamnit.

Jerry Seinfeld Is Playing With My Emotions And I Do Not Appreciate It

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Decider – “So all these sitcoms are having a resurgence,” DeGeneres began. “So Roseanne is doing it, Murphy Brown – is that really true? Murphy Brown’s doing it?” “I think I know where you’re going with this, but why don’t you finish it,” Seinfeld jested. “Do you think, Jerry, there would be a possibility that Seinfeld would come back?” DeGeneres asked. “It’s possible,” he responded, causing the audience to erupt into wild applause and cheers.

Jerry Seinfeld you old wily bastard. Playing with my and everyone else’s heartstrings. He knows what he’s doing. He knows how to play the game. Still, this is just evil.

The worst part about it is, if in a limited fashion, I don’t think bringing back “Seinfeld” would be a bad thing. It’s well known that the show stopped because Jerry Seinfeld himself sort of just ran out of shit to write, he’s said it himself. Ratings were great, the show was popular, but he was just sort of done.

That said, I’ve long contended that one season – just one little season of television – addressing modern technology and the information age’s influence on those characters’ lives would be HILARIOUS. Imagine George’s DMs getting out? Imagine Jerry getting dumped over a “new phone who’s this?” when he legit had to get a new phone? There is NO END in sight.

RUN WITH IT JERRY. RUN WITH IT.

Friday Morning Randomness

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Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix special is out and, critics be damned, it is a must-watch. I know it’s a lot of recycled material, but it’s still one of the best comedy specials I’ve seen in a while. Even if he’s just “playing the hits,” it’s solid material from one of the best to ever play the game.

Here’s his 1998 HBO special, “I’m Telling You For the Last Time.” This was the first comedy album I ever owned, and I still listen to it today.