What Is the Deal With Jerry Seinfeld?
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What Is the Deal With Jerry Seinfeld?

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In the eighth season of Seinfeld, when the ubiquitous, insanely popular sitcom was edging away from the quotidian and into the surreal, Elaine broke up with a nice boyfriend named Kevin who declared himself perfectly happy to remain friends. In light of the Israel-Gaza war, Remnick asked how, in “a very dark time,” the weight of the world might affect Seinfeld’s comedy. “The only validation I’ve ever cared about as a human being,” he says in his 2017 special Jerry Before Seinfeld, has been to get the laughs. “Larry David used to always say I don’t get enough credit for my misanthropy,” Seinfeld told Variety in the run-up to Unfrosted. “You’re nicer than Hitler.” Once upon a time, Jerry Seinfeld was a young grump.

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