Jerry Seinfeld

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Jerry Seinfeld (2010)

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York ) is an American stand-up comedian , actor , screenwriter , producer and writer . He was best known for the successful sitcom Seinfeld , named after him , which ran on NBC from 1989 to 1998 . He was the lead actor, screenwriter and executive producer on the series.

Life

Seinfeld grew up as the only child of a Jewish family in Massapequa on Long Island , where he attended Birch Lane Elementary School and later Massapequa High School. He then went to the State University of New York in Oswego , which he left after a few semesters. Immediately after graduating from Queens College , he made his first open mic appearances on New York's Catch A Rising Star in 1976. A short time later, Seinfeld appeared in an HBO special about Rodney Dangerfield .

Seinfeld had a small role as the postman "Frankie" in the sitcom Benson 1979, in which he had little success, which led to his being promptly fired. Later he will pick up the name "Benson" in his box office hit Bee Movie .

In May 1981, Seinfeld was able to complete an extremely successful appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson . Seinfeld has now been a regular guest on a variety of shows including the late night show with David Letterman and the Merv Griffin Show .

His field

Jerry Seinfeld at the 1997 Emmy Awards

In 1989, together with Larry David , Seinfeld created the sitcom The Seinfeld Chronicles for NBC . The show was taken over by the broadcaster and renamed Seinfeld . On the show, Seinfeld played a fictional version of himself. He said the show was inspired by the classic 1950s sitcom The Abbott and Costello Show . In addition to Seinfeld himself, Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Michael Richards and Jason Alexander (whose character was based on Larry David's person) could be seen in the leading roles.

Seinfeld became one of the most famous and successful sitcoms in American television history. Jerry Seinfeld became the highest paid television actor of the time. In the nine years of its running, nine seasons were produced. In 1998 the Finale of Seinfeld was broadcast.

For the finale of the Seinfeld series , the computer manufacturer Apple broadcast a one-time bow as a bow, which showed Seinfeld alongside Albert Einstein , Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King .

Eight years after the end of the series, the series still generated considerable advertising income in the US cable network, which in 2005 brought Jerry Seinfeld an income of 100 million dollars, also through a share in the DVD proceeds. In 2019, Seinfeld sold the streaming rights to the series for the years 2021-2025 for $ 500 million.

Other work

For American Express he appeared in two partly animated commercials The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman in 2004 . The character Superman was spoken by Patrick Warburton , who already played in Seinfeld . Oscar winner Barry Levinson directed the film . Superman was a recurring theme for Seinfeld both in his stand-up programs and in his television series, for example a statue of the superhero made by Randy Bowen was on the film set of his apartment .

In 2003, Seinfeld developed the idea for Bee Movie - Das Honigkomplott . The idea was developed by DreamWorks - Studios picked up. Seinfeld wrote the script together with Andy Robin, Barry Marder and Spike Feresten. Seinfeld also produced the film and voiced the lead character, Barry B. Benson. Bee Movie was released in November 2007. The film became a solid hit with over $ 286 million in revenue.

Seinfeld joined the German theatrical release of Bee Movie in Wetten, dass ..? where, after a losing bet, he and Renée Zellweger had to act out the characters Maja and Willi from the popular children's series Maya the Bee as a parody of his own film .

In 2008, Seinfeld appeared in a series of Microsoft commercials with Bill Gates .

In 2010 he produced the moderately successful show The Marriage Ref , on which he also appeared occasionally as a presenter. The show was largely panned by criticism and discontinued in 2012.

Since July 2012 he has appeared in the self-produced web series Comedians auf Kaffeefahrt . In the episodes of around 20 minutes each, Jerry Seinfeld drives an old car with a celebrity guest to a café to have coffee or breakfast. In the nine seasons up to 2018, there were Ricky Gervais , Alec Baldwin , Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks , Sarah Silverman , David Letterman , Louis CK , Jay Leno , Tina Fey , Sarah Jessica Parker , Don Rickles , Seth Meyers , Chris Rock , Patton Oswalt , Howard Stern , Kevin Hart , Jimmy Fallon , Steve Harvey , Jim Carrey , Bill Maher , Stephen Colbert , Steve Martin , Will Ferrell , Kristen Wiig , Christoph Waltz , Zach Galifianakis , Ellen DeGeneres , Kate McKinnon , Jerry Lewis and Barack Obama . His former colleagues from the Seinfeld series such as Larry David , Jason Alexander (in his role as George Costanza ), Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards were also featured in the web series.

Since the end of his sitcom, Seinfeld has largely retired from acting. Occasionally he only appears as a guest star in other television series of his comedian friends, for example in 2007 in an episode of 30 Rock or in two episodes of Louie .

In 2009, starred himself in the seventh season of the HBO series Leave It, Larry! . The series is written by and with Larry David, his good friend and co-creator of Seinfeld . In the series he is supposed to produce a Seinfeld reunion with David. Seinfeld had a cameo back in 2004 in the last episode of the fourth season.

In 2017 his stand-up comedy special Jerry Before Seinfeld was released on Netflix . In 2019 he made a guest appearance on the Netflix series Huge in France . In 2020 he made a deal with Netflix, for which Seinfeld included two more stand-up comedy specials. The first was released on May 5, 2020 with the title Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill .

The German voice actor for Jerry Seinfeld is usually Oliver Feld .

Private

Jerry Seinfeld has been married to Jessica Seinfeld (* 1971 as Nina Sklar ) since 1999 and has three children. Jerry Seinfeld's ancestors on his mother's side come from Syria, his paternal grandfather emigrated in 1903 from Stanislau, then Austria .

Seinfeld said he was never a practicing Scientologist, but in previous years he took part in several Scientology courses, which he said was helpful for his career.

Seinfeld owns a collection of around 150 cars. He is also considered the owner of one of the largest Porsche collections (he has 43 pieces) in the world. Among other things, the last air-cooled Porsche 911 , model 993 , was delivered to him. In 2002, Seinfeld bought a plot on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City , where he built a two-story garage for 1.4 million US dollars to a portion to store his collection.

Filmography (selection)

Books

Web links

Commons : Jerry Seinfeld  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Seinfeld  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pinkskies21: Jerry Seinfeld The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson appearances. October 6, 2013, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Netflix Nabs Seinfeld Streaming Rights in $ 500 Million Plus Deal . In: Vanity Fair . Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ Resin Wiki: Randy Bowen
  4. ^ Jill Serjeant: Seinfeld's "Marriage" gets big ratings, bad reviews. In: Reuters . March 1, 2010, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  5. ^ Greg Evans: Seinfeld's Marriage Ref: Nada Nada Nada. In: Huffington Post . May 1, 2010, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee.com ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 25, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com
  8. ↑ Zev Chafets: The Sy Empire. In: The New York Times . October 14, 2007, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  9. ^ Alison Leigh Cowan: The Paper Trail of Jerry Seinfeld Leads Back to Ellis Island and Beyond. In: The New York Times . April 23, 2009, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Interview With Jerry Seinfeld. In: parade.com . September 18, 2007, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Ulf Poschardt: Porsche forms have something human-shaped. In: The world . September 13, 2011, accessed November 4, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Inside Jerry Seinfeld's Super Secret Manhattan Garage October 28, 2016, accessed April 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Seinfeld, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seinfeld, Jerome Allen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City