1. Jerome Allen Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.
69 Facts About Jerry Seinfeld
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Jerry Seinfeld has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for four Grammy Awards.
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Jerry Seinfeld gained stardom playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Jerry Seinfeld, which he co-created and wrote with Larry David.
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Jerry Seinfeld has since created and produced the reality series The Marriage Ref, and created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the latter of which earned him three Webby Awards.
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Jerry Seinfeld co-produced, co-wrote, and starred in the DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie and the Netflix comedy Unfrosted.
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Jerry Seinfeld has released four standup specials his first being Stand-Up Confidential followed by I'm Telling You for the Last Time, Jerry Before Seinfeld and 23 Hours to Kill.
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Jerry Seinfeld is married to author and philanthropist Jessica Seinfeld, with whom he has three children.
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Jerry Seinfeld was born on April 29,1954, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City.
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Salha's mother, Garez Dayan, Jerry Seinfeld's great-grandmother, was a member of the Dayan rabbinic family, who claim ancestry back to the Medieval Exilarchs, and from the Exilarchs back to the Biblical King David.
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Jerry Seinfeld grew up in Massapequa, in the Nassau County of Long Island and attended Massapequa High School.
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Jerry Seinfeld attended the State University of New York at Oswego, and transferred after his second year to Queens College of the City University of New York in Flushing, from which he graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and theater.
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Jerry Seinfeld developed an interest in stand-up comedy after brief stints in college productions.
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Jerry Seinfeld appeared on open-mic nights at Budd Friedman's Improv Club while attending Queens College.
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Jerry Seinfeld was abruptly fired from the show due to creative differences.
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Jerry Seinfeld said that he was not told he had been fired until he arrived for a read-through session and found that there was no script for him.
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Jerry Seinfeld created The Jerry Seinfeld Chronicles with Larry David in 1988 for NBC.
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Jerry Seinfeld is the only actor to appear in every episode.
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Jerry Seinfeld has written several books, mostly archives of past routines.
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On November 18,2004, Jerry Seinfeld appeared at the National Museum of American History to donate the "puffy shirt" he wore in the Jerry Seinfeld episode of the same name.
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The camera moved to a catwalk above the stage where Jerry Seinfeld was standing, holding a large pair of bolt cutters.
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On June 2,2008, amidst his spring 2008 tour, Jerry Seinfeld performed in his hometown of New York City for a one-night-only show at the Hammerstein Ballroom to benefit Stand Up for a Cure, a charity aiding lung cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Jerry Seinfeld appeared on an episode of the Starz original series Head Case.
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Jerry Seinfeld wrote the scripts for the 15 advertisements that were filmed.
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Jerry Seinfeld was the first guest on Jay Leno's talk show The Jay Leno Show, which premiered on September 14,2009.
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Jerry Seinfeld executive produced and regularly appeared as a panelist in The Marriage Ref.
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Jerry Seinfeld toured the US in 2011 and made his first stand-up appearance in the United Kingdom in 11 years.
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In 2012, Jerry Seinfeld started a web series titled Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in which he would pick up a fellow comedian in a different car every episode and take them out for coffee and conversation.
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In 2014, Jerry Seinfeld told David Letterman he invited Woody Allen to be on the show but hadn't heard back.
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In 2014, Jerry Seinfeld hosted the special Don Rickles: One Night Only at the Apollo Theatre.
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On February 15,2015, Jerry Seinfeld made a guest appearance on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, where he hosted the "Questions from the Audience" segment, which included cameos from Michael Douglas, John Goodman, James Franco, Larry David, Ellen Cleghorne, Dakota Johnson, Tim Meadows, Bob Odenkirk, and Sarah Palin.
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On May 20,2015, Jerry Seinfeld made a guest appearance on David Letterman's final Late Show episode.
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In January 2017, Jerry Seinfeld went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and joined Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Fallon in honoring outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama, and played a game of Catchphrase, which Obama and Fallon won to Jerry Seinfeld's dismay.
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In October 2020, Jerry Seinfeld joined Steve Martin in a discussion about comedy at The New Yorker Festival.
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Jerry Seinfeld starred in the film alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, and Hugh Grant.
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Jerry Seinfeld appeared as a guest on John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA where he joked that it was "the weirdest talk show I've ever been on in my life".
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Jerry Seinfeld embarked on a new tour starting with his first show in Singapore in June 2024 followed by a number of stops in Australia and North America.
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Jerry Seinfeld returned to Curb Your Enthusiasm in its final season reuniting with Larry David where they poked fun at the controversial ending of Jerry Seinfeld.
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Those influenced by Jerry Seinfeld include John Mulaney, Ellen DeGeneres, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Issa Rae, Nate Bargatze, and Mark Normand.
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Jerry Seinfeld was a fellow comedian, and one of the inspirations for the Seinfeld character Elaine Benes.
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In May 1993, then 38-year-old Jerry Seinfeld met 17-year-old Shoshanna Lonstein in Central Park.
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Jerry Seinfeld transferred from George Washington University to UCLA, in part to be with him, ultimately citing constant press coverage and missing New York City as reasons for the relationship ending.
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In 1999, Jerry Seinfeld auctioned a Breitling Chronomat watch as part of the "Famous Faces, Watch Auction For Charity" event in New York City.
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Jerry Seinfeld has participated in Jon Stewart's charity event, Night of Too Many Stars.
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Jerry Seinfeld turned down $5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the show for a 10th season.
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Jerry Seinfeld earned $100 million from syndication deals and stand-up performances in 2004, and $60 million in 2006.
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Jerry Seinfeld earned $10 million for appearing with Bill Gates in Microsoft's 2008 advertisements for Windows.
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Between June 2008 and June 2009, Jerry Seinfeld earned $85 million, making him the world's highest-paid comedian during those 12 months.
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In mid-2013, Jerry Seinfeld disputed Forbes claims regarding his income and net worth on The Howard Stern Show.
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Jerry Seinfeld was ranked by Forbes the highest-paid comedian for 2015, the second-highest-paid in 2016, and the highest-paid again in 2017.
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Jerry Seinfeld is an automobile enthusiast and collector, and he owns a collection of about 150 cars, including many Porsches.
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Jerry Seinfeld rented a hangar at Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, in the 1990s to store cars.
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In 2002, Jerry Seinfeld purchased property on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City where he built a $1.4 million two-story garage to store Porsches.
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Paul Bannister has written that Jerry Seinfeld's collection includes Porsche 911s from various years, 10 Porsche Boxsters each painted a different color, and the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, the same model and pearl-grey color of the car James Dean was driving in his fatal crash.
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The centerpiece of the Jerry Seinfeld collection is Steve McQueen's Porsche 917 Chassis 022, driven extensively in the 1971 film Le Mans, acquired by Jerry Seinfeld in 2002, and restored by Joe Cavaglieri to the 1971-era Gulf Porsche team livery.
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The Discovery Channel television show Chasing Classic Cars claimed that Jerry Seinfeld owns the first and last produced air-cooled Porsche 911s.
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Jerry Seinfeld has a $700,000 Porsche 959, one of only 337 built.
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Jerry Seinfeld wrote an article for the February 2004 issue of Automobile, reviewing the Porsche Carrera GT.
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In 2008, Jerry Seinfeld was involved in a car accident when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat 500 failed and, to avoid an intersection, he pulled the emergency brake while turning sharply, ultimately causing the car to flip onto its side.
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Jerry Seinfeld described the process of making coffee with a moka pot as complex and time-consuming, but a pleasurable way to "waste time".
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Jerry Seinfeld is Jewish and has incorporated elements of his Jewish identity in his work.
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Jerry Seinfeld stated that he took a Scientology course when he was in his 20s; he said that he found it interesting but that he did not pursue it any further.
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In 2023, Jerry Seinfeld visited the headquarters of Abducted and Missing Families Forum where he met with representatives of the families and with abductees who returned from Hamas captivity, and listened to their stories.
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On May 12,2024, Jerry Seinfeld gave a commencement address and received an honorary degree at Duke University.
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In June 2024, Jerry Seinfeld was heckled by protesters during a comedy show in Sydney, Australia.
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Jerry Seinfeld has expressed his distaste for what he views as political correctness.
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In 2015, Jerry Seinfeld stated that he avoids performing on college campuses because students have become too easily offended by his comedic routines.
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In December 2012, Jerry Seinfeld said that he had been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 40 years.
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Jerry Seinfeld promoted the use of the technique in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder with Bob Roth of the David Lynch Foundation in December 2012 on Good Morning America, and appeared at a 2009 David Lynch Foundation benefit for TM, at which Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr appeared.
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Jerry Seinfeld has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Queens College as well as an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Duke University.