Jerry Seinfeld: A Comedy

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"Go down (to a retirement community) to visit your parents, end up in a hot tub with your father and three or four really old men. That's a perfect way to meet elderly people: half-naked, sitting in tubs of hot, bubbling water. They get out, they look like an ad for gravity." This is just one of the many jokes written by the widely known comedian: Jerry Seinfeld. He started out by making his friends laugh, hit a few hardships around the way, but in the end he made it to the top.

His father inspired him to be a comedian by saying “He was always making people laugh.” Seinfeld stated to study the techniques of comedians who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. There was a time that he made his friend laugh so hard that he sprayed a mouthful of

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