To help keep a good memory to just some of the many different observations and lessons that were said by Jerry Seinfeld, there are few key links to some key videos of special reveals from him. Of course, there are just some examples, and there are so much more. At the very least, it seemed like a good idea to capture some of these to help give as references, for possible lessons, or potential stories, and to make sure that we do not forget.
1. Comedian Award 2007 (released Sep 18, 2016) — Excerpts by Jerry : “…. You don’t give awards to comedians. ….Secondly, even more important is umm your whole career as a comedian is about making fun of pretentious high-minded self congratulatory BS events like this one. ….. The whole feeling in this room of reverence and honoring is the exact opposite of everything I have wanted my life to be about. … I really don’t really want to be up here. ….. I feel very very honored. And but just it is that awards are stupid. …. ” Link to video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F3pJfmqnUM
2. Jerry Seinfeld Hates Praise and Won’t Watch Your Shows (Nov 24, 2017) — Excerpts by Jerry: ” There is not greatest anything, first of all. And there is no greatest comedian. …… You always undersell a comedian. …… First of all, nobody is really that funny. We’re all — comedy is just like food. It’s like, I like this — you like that. … Nobody — there’s no one comedian that everybody likes. There is no such thing. … I love Thanksgiving… First of all the idea of it is nice. … Gratitude should be the attitude. .. … I don’t have a show. …….. I don’t have 90 hours with nothing to do. ….. I’ll tell you my favorite show. The Flex Seal information late at night. …. ” Link to video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVbaY8eYFQ
3. Jerry Seinfeld & Cardi B: Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis — (Jun 14, 2018 ) Excerpts by Jerry : ” ….. do you think if they only made one Hangover and didn’t make the other two, it would be considered a comedy classic? Do you think that you destroyed what would have been a comedy classic by the cash grab of 2 and 3? ……..I see the camera, but I don’t like the line. ……….- I don’t care about- the clicks. …… ” Link to video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp25FOn37nA
4. Jerry Seinfeld: What it takes to be a comedian (May 31, 2015 ) Excerpts by Jerry: “… .There’s a bigger connection between a total stranger that’s a stand-up comedian than someone I’ve known my whole life and my family or a friend who’s not a comedian. ….. It’s like you don’t really … I don’t really know me. But I can meet a comedian from Denmark and in five he and I are more bonding than and I don’t think that exists in a lot of other professions. …….. There’s a brutality to comedy that if you survive it you have become this creature. You become a creature. …… That’s a humanoid not human but humanoid. …. Then you find this other pathway that hey I can relate to people this way yeah even though I’m struggling in most of the conventional ways. ….. The moment of laughter is a unm it’s just a pure weightless moment of existence and just and getting to that place where you can hear it get it give it just you just want to be around it. ……… You have to be a kind of ruthless person in some form a relentless ruthless person. That cannot be taught. …… ” Link to video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHj8fd-034s
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