Watching the new Seinfeld special. He’s not even trying to be contemporary. It’s a 90s throwback set. Comes off as trying to own being self-aware about being stuck in the past but somehow still comes across as out of touch. Just 5 min in though. Maybe it gets better.
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I guess he was never really messed up and miserable enough to be a great comic, but talented enough to be a reliably good one for a long and anchor an ensemble. But once he got rich enough, there was no reason to play foil to others.
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I guess I do empathize with one clear impulse in his career which is to just quit bothering to grow at some point and coast. I’m pretty sure that’s what I’d do too if I could afford to past a point.
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I always appreciated Jerry’s disdain for acting, evident in Seinfeld in his constant breaking. But it always just seemed like he was having fun and didn’t think it was worth taking too seriously. He has a great takedown on acting in this clip:https://youtu.be/4F3pJfmqnUM
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Yeah; the credit I also give him for the show is that he was half actor and half writer/director, and the latter category is the value he brought to the table. That said, the straight man in comedy is always under appreciated, despite being so important.
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I got a few chuckles in the first half of that special and then took a nap while it finished. Don’t regret the decision.
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