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Is This Anything?
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The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his 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 page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers 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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"Did you ever read a book where it's obvious the author has no burning desire to write a book, where he puts down phrases in staccato bursts that are not really sentences or paragraphs or even proper English?"
"...a laugh-out-loud volume ..."
"Admirers of Seinfeld's stream-of-consciousness observations about the minutiae of daily life will find much to enjoy here ..."
"not a memoir along the lines of Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, but it does serve as Seinfeld's This is Your Life, only with jokes instead of trotting out distant relatives and former teachers ..."
"Despite the self-deprecating title, Seinfeld has assembled his greatest hits."
"Fans of Seinfeld will eat this up, and aspiring comics will want to study how he shapes his seemingly effortless humor."
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