SiriusXM: Jerry Seinfeld on Netflix is a Joke Radio “We Never Gave Jerry Stiller a Note” and being Scared to do New Material
Jerry Seinfeld joined SiriusXM’s Netflix is a Joke Radio “What A Joke with Papa and Fortune” show and discussed the death of Jerry Stiller, and more.
What A Joke with Papa and Fortuneairs on SiriusXM’s Netflix is a Joke Radio channel 93 weekdays during 7:00 – 9:00 am PT / 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Jerry Seinfeld remembering Jerry Stiller
Transcript:
You know, there was a writer on the show, Larry Charles, was the guy who came up with the idea– it was his thinking, we need, who should we get to play George’s father? And he kept saying, Jerry Stiller, Jerry Stiller. And I remember Stiller and Meara from the 60’s, but I hadn’t seen Jerry in a while and I just didn’t– and I thought, well, but he’s not bald. But Larry just kept mentioning him and finally we brought him in and he was so perfect. And those packages of just Jerry Stiller bits on my show are so unbelievably funny. What I loved about him is he so completes the George story. When you meet the father, you go, “Oh, now I understand why he’s like that.” It was the perfect finishing of the painting of George Costanza was Frank Costanza. He had the most amazing comedic stuff that he– we didn’t know if he was planning it or it just came out that way, or he couldn’t remember the line, or we didn’t know what it was, but we did not want to disturb it in any way. We never gave Jerry Stiller a note. I never adjusted his performance once. Whatever he did, that’s it. We’re putting that out there. I don’t know why he did it like that. I don’t know why he screamed on that line. It doesn’t matter. It’s funny. So funny. I am such a dedicated believer in if it’s funny, don’t touch it. I don’t care why it’s funny. I don’t care what the line was supposed to be. He said it that way, we’re doing it that way.
- Seinfeld on Trying out New Bits
Transcript:
Seinfeld: When I finished the TV series, I thought that I had such granite confidence in myself. I mean, I had just done the TV series. I thought, stand up is going to be so easy. Now I’ll be able to just go into a theater of 3000 people and do 20 new minutes off the top of my head, and I couldn’t do it. Not do it. I cannot do it. I can’t do new material and in big rooms. I can’t, I can’t.
Papa: Yeah. Yeah. Why? Why do you think that
Seinfeld: I’m too scared,
Fortune: You’re Human
Seinfeld: Brian Regan does it. Brian Regan does it. He, he says, I just put it between two bits that I know are gonna work. I put the bits that I don’t know in between, but I can’t do it. I have to try it out.
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