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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Saturday 28 November 2020
Jerry Seinfeld digs into 45 years of his jokes for new book

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For- out of being constantly ir-
get the high-performance ritated by something else,
sports cars, the luxury and that seems to go on
Rolls-Royces and all those endlessly," he says, espe-
other classic automobiles cially when staying home
in which Jerry Seinfeld ush- with four other people.
ers his fellow comics to the "It's usually one good fight
diner on television's "Come- per day, I would say, is our
dians in Cars Getting Cof- basic routine. Two meals
fee." and one good fight."
The most valuable things Still, unlike his bachelor
Seinfeld owns are the thou- days in Manhattan, being
sands of pieces of paper a family man puts a limit on
— yellow, scribbled over, just how much irritation he
sometimes crumpled — can vent.
that for years he's been "When I lived alone when
cramming into those brown I was single, I would fill up
accordion folders that an entire house with com-
were once a staple of stor- plaints, but now I have to
age until something better share it," he jokes. "I'm on a
came along called the lap- complaint diet."
top computer. When the pandemic finally
They contain the jokes Sein- ends, he's looking forward
feld has been writing and This July 17, 2019 file photo shows Jerry Seinfeld at the "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee," photo to going back out on the
telling since that first day call in Beverly Hills, Calif. road, rescheduling the
he walked into a New York Associated Press stand-up gigs he had to
nightclub as a 21-year-old cancel. But don't look for
wannabe comic who ac- out. You're very lucky." during which Seinfeld be- Hunkered down in the fam- him to fill them with corona-
cepted free hamburgers He's compiled them all in came arguably the great- ily home with his wife and virus jokes, although several
in lieu of a paycheck. They a new book, "Is This Any- est stand-up comic of his their three children in East good ones fill the last chap-
continue right up to the thing?," the title taken from era and the pivotal figure Hampton, New York, he is ter of "Is This Anything?"
present-day musings of a the question every comic of the funniest TV sitcom of continuing to add to those "I think people are going to
66-year-old man wonder- asks every other comic its time. folders. He's also working on be so sick of it that they're
ing how the world keeps when he or she is about to Still, why did he save every another project that for the going to move on and
getting more crowded try out new material. joke of his career? Or at moment he isn't discussing want us to talk about other
when he doesn't see any Assembled in chronologi- least every one that got a except to say it involves things," he says of that and
more cemeteries being cal order, they provide not laugh? the people with whom politics, although he ad-
built. just a trove of laugh-out- "A lot of people ask me that he made the hit 2007 ani- mits he's been consumed
"Flights, restaurants, theater loud one-liners but also a question and I always say I mated comedy film "Bee by both during the months
shows sell out all the time. timeline, beginning with don't know why I saved Movie." stuck at home.
Cemetery? Anyone croaks, a kid commuting from his anything else," he replies Even quarantined from the Still, he's never been much
send them in. We just had parents' home on Long Is- with a chuckle in a phone coronavirus, Seinfeld says for political jokes, saying
an opening. What hap- land to New York City to try interview. Then he adds he finds no shortage of new that, one, he's not good at
pened? Somebody came to make strangers laugh. It more seriously, "This is the material. them and two, they don't
back to life and walked continues through a career most valuable thing I have." "A lot of material just comes hold up over time.q

Champion Ken Jennings will be first interim 'Jeopardy!' host

By The Associated Press "Greatest of All Time" title "Jeopardy!" that debuted
NEW YORK (AP) — "Jeop- in a competition last year, in 1964 on NBC and aired
ardy!" record-holder Ken will host episodes that air in for a decade.
Jennings will be the first in January. Richards said "Jeopardy!"
a series of interim hosts re- A long-term host to replace will air repeat episodes for
placing Alex Trebek when Trebek, who died of cancer the holiday weeks begin-
the show resumes produc- on Nov. 8, will be named ning Dec. 21 and 28, mean-
tion next Monday. later. ing Trebek's final week of
Producers announced "By bringing in familiar guest shows will air starting Mon-
Monday that Jennings, hosts for the foreseeable day, Jan. 4.q
who won 74 games in a row future, our goal is to create Solution Sudoku
and claimed the show's a sense of community and

This image released by JEOPARDY! shows Ken Jennings, a 74-
time champion the the set of the popular quiz show.
Associated Press

continuity for our viewers," It is still airing shows that
the show's executive pro- Trebek filmed before his
ducer, Mike Richards, said. death.
The show is in its 37th year Art Fleming hosted ear-
of syndication, and Trebek lier editions of the game
was its only host. show, including the original Puzzle on Page 13