Does anyone else think he's a prick in real life?
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groove76 — 16 years ago(March 07, 2010 08:58 PM)
I don't know the guy and I'm not jealous of him at all but I think he seems more like a worm than anything else. Doesn't come across enough as a man to be a prick because that takes a certain masculinity, aggression, and style, of which Seinfeld has zero. He, like Michael Jackson, I have a hard time seeing as human beings.
Where most comedians (and people) seem to have a warmth to their jokes, a mature sympathy or morality that the comedians reference and then depart from, I always got a cold, unintentional cynicism from Jerry Seinfeld's personality, like he would make a joke of anything because he could get away with it. I find him especially repugnant when he puts forward his utterly insincere politeness to hide what could only be an absolute disregard and impatience for people. I think it's all there in his material, blank expressions and atrocious acting. I haven't seen anything that indicates otherwise.
Now, Larry David on the other hand seems much more likable because he is self-deprecating and that takes a certain humility and courage. While he still has that biting cynicism, he seems far more sympathetic as opposed to being calloused and vacant like Seinfeld.
Ironically, I watched "Seinfeld" for everyone in the show but Jerry Seinfeld.
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toldyousew — 15 years ago(June 23, 2010 01:52 PM)
You mean "elitist."
groove76:
Ironically, I watched "Seinfeld" for everyone in the show but Jerry Seinfeld.
Whenever Jerry Seinfeld was almost laughing in his series, I really
resented him.
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KindredSouls — 15 years ago(September 21, 2010 05:22 PM)
But yetin the extras on one of the DVD collections, it was Larry David inappropriately laughing his head off about the discussion that one of their stories had been based around that coach that tragically died (the Gatorade incident in "the Pez dispenser".)
Jerry had at least enough respect to not join in the laughter, and I guess Larry David got a clue because he stopped pr1908etty quickly.
As far as the man being arrogant, I don't know. I've never met him. I would never suppose to guess. That to me, is the height of true arrogance-passing judgement on someone you know from television and have never known (I'm not talking about meeting him, I mean KNOWING him) personally.