Revisiting 'Jerry Before Seinfeld': The comedian takes viewers back to where it all started for him, vintage jokes and all
by By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Sep 19, 2017
3 minutes
From variety hours to talk shows to dedicated specials, stand-up comedy on television is just about as old as television. Millions (I am guesstimating) who have never seen a comic work a nightclub or theater have seen dozens upon dozens of them on TV. Some of these people decide to become comedians themselves.
"When I was a kid and a comedian came on TV, I would just freeze and stare at them," Jerry Seinfeld remembers in "Jerry Before Seinfeld," a dedicated special premiering this week on Netflix,
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