Jerry Seinfeld
Also known as Jerome Allen Seinfeld
American stand-up comedian; co-created and starred in the sitcom Seinfeld.
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- Jerry Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian known for observational comedy.
- He co-created and wrote the NBC sitcom Seinfeld with Larry David and played a version of himself in it.
- He later created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
- He practices Transcendental Meditation.
Why it matters
- One of the best-known stand-up comedians: Comedy Central and Rolling Stone both ranked him among the greatest of all time.
Key facts
- Born
- 29 Apr 1954, Brooklyn, New York City1
- Grew up in
- Massapequa, Long Island1
- Education
- Queens College, City University of New York (BA in communications and theater, 1976)1
- Seinfeld (NBC)
- 1989–1998, co-created and written with Larry David1
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
- Created and hosted, 2012–2019; three Webby Awards1
- Films
- Bee Movie (2007), Unfrosted (2024)1
- Stand-up specials
- Stand-Up Confidential (1987), I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998), Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017), 23 Hours to Kill (2020)1
- Books
- SeinLanguage (1993), Halloween (2002), Is This Anything? (2020)1
- Rankings
- 12th-greatest stand-up comedian (Comedy Central, 2004); 7th (Rolling Stone, 2017)1
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