Kudos to you, Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld started his own website a few weeks ago at www.jerryseinfeld.com. Every day he puts up three clips from his personal archive of stand-up shows and interviews he has done, starting from the early 80′s through to today. They are as funny as you expect Seinfeld to be and I only wish I could see the ones from yesterday again, but once they are gone, they are gone. You have to check in everyday to see them all.
On the website he states he began watching stand up comedians on television when he was 10 years old. “Somewhere out there are ten year olds like I was just waiting to get hooked on this strange pursuit. This is for them. I’m just hoping somehow it will keep this silliness going.”
As the proud owner of a 9 year old, who appears to have comedic aspirations of his own, I appreciate Mr. Seinfeld sharing his comedy online and opening up a whole new world of humor to a younger generation. Many of the comedians on television today fill their acts with profanity and vulgar innuendos, some of which I admit to finding funny, but that I won’t be showing my 9 year old.
Plus, I am not above admitting that if I am going to support someone’s humor through the years by laughing at all their jokes, it doesn’t hurt for that person to be influenced by someone I think is hilarious and admire for his ability to speak to everyone.
OMG – thank you for reminding me about this! Another friend of mine told me and I forgot all about it, so now I will write this down and never forget it, and set an alarm to remind myself to watch this every day!
I know, right?! Some days I forget to go check it out and I am always disappointed when I realize. Other days I go back and re-watch each clip three times. I need to get my timing down. It is one of my favorite sites right now. I mean, you know, sites without goats of course!