He seems like one.
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BeBeSee — 16 years ago(September 22, 2009 02:50 PM)
My boyfriend was riding his motorcycle and ended up at a stoplight next to Jerry Se5b4infeld. He started to chat Jerry up while they were stopped and they ended up pulling to the side of the street and having a full conversation.
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jeremy_plume — 16 years ago(February 19, 2010 08:43 PM)
I love the Seinfeld show to death, and love the Character Jerry Seinfeld. However, the real Jerry Seinfeld has ALWAYS come off on me as a prick. Just an arrogant, better-than-you, prick.
But i've never actually met him, so I can't say how he really is. He just seems like he's better than everyone (which may be true) -
LuvvieHowell — 12 years ago(May 07, 2013 07:53 AM)
I have mixed feelings about JS. I own the entire DVD collection, and particular enjoy the EXTRAS on each DVDbut they show a Seinfeld who seems very impressed with himself, bored, and arrogant.
Now, that being said, have you seen his latest pet creation? If not, type in the web address: comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com. It's really quite brilliant.
His support of Michael Richards was impressive. Richards is a comic genius, but has had pretty severe mental health issues, and Jerry always seems to be kind to him.
Finally, I find it gross that he dated a 17 year old girl when he was in his twenties. I don't think he is a pedophile, but that choice (dating a girl who is still in high school) reveals a very immature and undeveloped personality.
That's my 2 cents anyways. I love the show Seinfeld but he is my least favorite character. Followed by Dreyfus. Jason and Michael are the SOLE reasons that show as such a smash hit, imo. -
smoko — 12 years ago(January 10, 2014 11:26 PM)
@LuvvieHowell The episode of CICGC with Richards was so bittersweet - Jerry was urging his friend to stop beating himself up over it, but Richards still wasn't able to, at least not yet.
Finally, I find it gross that he dated a 17 year old girl when he was in his twenties.
Hold onto your lunch, because he was actually in his late 1c8430's when dating Shoshanna Lonstein. -
EllisFowler — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 02:05 PM)
So, my judgment is that he seems rather nice.
That IS nice. On the other hand, my wife knows someone who taught his kidslet's just say something non-curricular (lest the identity be traced) and who said his wife is the biggest insert uncomplimentary noun of choice who ever walked the face of the earth. He, on the other hand, seemed okay. -
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.
~I can sing better than Taylor Hicks! -
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.