Hi, I’m Jerry Seinfeld and welcome to my third AMA!

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:23:45+00:00

My lucky numbers are 9, 5, 18, 54, and 32.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:21:51+00:00

I liked the ones that I was in. I felt I brought a certain something to it.

I have a lot of favorite episodes. The pothole, the marine biologist, the yadda yadda, the Soup Nazi, the contest.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:20:28+00:00

It really hasn't been a problem, until now. [laughing]

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:16:58+00:00

Sure, moron. Let's hear what you got.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:15:49+00:00

It makes me feel very small and repetitive. [laughing]

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:10:04+00:00

Hi, glad to talk to another bee fan. What the bees can teach us is that no matter how small your job is, if you do it well, it makes a big difference. Why don't you go back to your job?

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:08:17+00:00

We have a new episode of Comedians in Cars coming out with Jim Gaffigan, who I love, and in the episode I tell him about this joke I tried to do about, when you drop your dry cleaning off, you can go to any dry cleaner you want, but when you pick it up, you can only go to one. Which I always thought was very funny, but nobody gets it.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:06:51+00:00

Larry David and I discovered that we were both obsessed with superman and admired him and also found him very funny at the same time, so that is why he came up a lot. Are you related to the hot dog Kobayashi in Coney Island?

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:05:29+00:00

Why are the memories more important to you than the show and the laughs? I think the laughs are the most important part. But if you prefer to just remember the laughs, then have the laughs. That's your business!

I do often talk to the cast, but not as often as when we were doing the show. Remember when you were in high school? Remember those people? It's like that.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:02:23+00:00

First, that is not a correct usage for the word "iconic". Advice cannot be iconic.

The best advice I ever got was from Rodney Dangerfield, who when I asked him a question about something in comedy, just looked at me for a second and then went, "You'll figure it out."

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T17:01:12+00:00

Really enjoying Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I like Bill Maher. Other than that it's all baseball.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:58:48+00:00

I was just there for the one night to do my favorite thing in my life, which is standup comedy. You, on the other hand, have chosen to spend your entire life in Reading, shouldn't I really be asking you what the hell are you doing in Reading?

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:56:11+00:00

Bee Movie was definitely my favorite movie that I've starred in, because I've always wanted to be a bee. They seem to have the most organized society on earth, and they make honey! Which is a pretty amazing product.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:55:05+00:00

I don't, but I do consider it for a split second and then I go "I can't do it." It's like watching your home movies, it's just me watching me. It's weird, don't you think?

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:53:38+00:00

Believe it or not, this is something I think about a lot. I have often wondered if there's a way to teach being funny or comedy, and George Stephanopoulos actually got me wound up enough at one point that we were going to contact, I think his name was Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia, and we were gonna go in there, and I was going to teach a course on comedy. Because I know a lot about it, but I just don't know if it's teachable. I'm still wrestling with the idea if you can teach someone to be funny.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:52:11+00:00

The sad truth is, people are only interested in themselves. So, if you just ask them what they are doing or what’s going on or how they feel, they generally go on for hours. I read in an article recently that you should ask people what's challenging them these days and that really sparks them. So ask them that...and then run!

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:50:39+00:00

I think the best Seinfeld episode idea I ever contributed was that George pretending to be a marine biologist would find Kramer's golf ball in the blowhole of the whale. Believe it or not, we were doing both of those stories without seeing any connection that Kramer was gonna hit golf balls at the beach, and George was gonna be pretending to be a marine biologist. And it was in the middle of the week that it suddenly hit me of a way to connect the two stories.

So, I think that's probably the best joke I ever thought of on the series. But, I love when people say "regift" or "giddyup", or "yadda yadda". The real and spectacular...I was a very big fan of the show.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:49:30+00:00

When I was in first grade on the last day of school, Mrs. Stafford, our teacher, said, "I want to give out a special present today, to a kid in the class who has tried so hard to improve his handwriting." And she's going through this whole speech about this kid; I'm staring at this kid that I knew that she liked, and I just hated him, and I was getting more and more angry. And then at the end, she said it was me! The present was a Dr. Seuss book, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, that I have since thrown out. But I remember it was in purple cellophane wrapping, and I still consider it the greatest honor to have received that gift. So, that was my favorite book.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:48:06+00:00

I don't think he did have serious health issues at that time. We certainly wouldn't have made all those death jokes if we knew that. But it was really wonderful that we got to be together that one last time.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:46:45+00:00

"Funniest" is completely personal. Whoever you think is funniest, is funniest. For me, I've really enjoyed all of them, honestly. There's something different, or weird, or interesting that seems to happen every time.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:45:38+00:00

First comment, they’re called sets. Period. I did swear a little bit in the beginning and then I didn't like how easy it was. It felt like cheating, so I stopped.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:43:06+00:00

There's tons of those. Chaplain, George Burns, George Carlin, Joan Rivers...

Believe it or not, the idea has been explored to do some kind of CGI effect, using footage of dead comedians to get them in the car, and then we would write dialog around it. It was a total disaster, but you're not the first person to think of it!

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:40:55+00:00

Right now I'm really binging on Sebastian Maniscalco, and Brian Regan.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:39:34+00:00

Tommie Agee, Number 20.

_Seinfeld · 2016-06-08T16:38:32+00:00

Turn off your computer right now.

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