Is This Anything?
Jerry Seinfeld
- The
- first
- book
- in
- twenty-five
- years
- from
- “one
- of
- our
- great
- comic
- minds”
- (The
- Washington
- Post)
- features
- Seinfeld’s
- best
- work
- across
- five
- decades
- in
- comedy.Since
- his
- first
- performance
- at
- the
- legendary
- New
- York
- nightclub
- “Catch
- a
- Rising
- Star”
- as
- a
- twenty-one-year-old
- college
- student
- in
- fall
- of
- 1975,
- Jerry
- Seinfeld
- has
- written
- his
- own
- material
- and
- saved
- everything.
- “Whenever
- I
- came
- up
- with
- a
- funny
- bit,
- whether
- it
- happened
- on
- a
- stage,
- in
- a
- conversation,
- or
- working
- it
- out
- on
- my
- preferred
- canvas,
- the
- big
- yellow
- legal
- pad,
- I
- kept
- it
- in
- one
- of
- those
- old
- school
- accordion
- folders,”
- Seinfeld
- writes.
- “So
- I
- have
- everything
- I
- thought
- was
- worth
- saving
- from
- forty-five
- years
- of
- hacking
- away
- at
- this
- for
- all
- I
- was
- worth.”For
- this
- book,
- Jerry
- Seinfeld
- has
- selected
- his
- favorite
- material,
- organized
- decade
- by
- decade.
- In
- this
- “trove
- of
- laugh-out-loud
- one-liners”
- (Associated
- Press),
- you
- will
- witness
- the
- evolution
- of
- one
- of
- the
- great
- comedians
- of
- our
- time
- and
- gain
- new
- insights
- into
- the
- thrilling
- but
- unforgiving
- art
- of
- writing
- stand-up comedy.
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