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Show Notes: https://tim.blog/2020/12/08/jerry-sei...

Entertainment icon Jerry Seinfeld’s (@jerryseinfeld) comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: Seinfeld. The show ran on NBC for nine seasons, winning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe, and People’s Choice awards, and was named the greatest television show of all time in 2009 by TV Guide and in 2012 was identified as the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll.

Seinfeld made his Netflix debut with the original stand-up special Jerry Before Seinfeld along with his Emmy-nominated and critically acclaimed web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which has garnered over 100 million views and which The New York Times describes as “impressively complex and artful” and Variety calls “a game-changer.” His latest stand-up special, 23 Hours To Kill, was released by Netflix earlier this year.

He is also the author of Is This Anything?, which features his best work across five decades in comedy.

Please enjoy!

00:00 Start
07:35 Childhood and The Last Laugh by Phil Berger
11:41 On writing
18:42 The real wellspring of ideas
21:05 Steering Seinfeld for nine seasons
24:51 On stepping away from massive success
26:01 Irritability as inspiration
28:23 Harmony and the cast of Seinfeld
32:17 The importance of systems
36:23 If he taught a class on writing
38:43 On feedback
42:29 On self-rewards
47:49 Other routines
52:27 Pain is knowledge filling a void at great speed
53:56 On the allure of depression
56:24 Favorite failures
01:01:14 Writing three days a week vs. writing seven
01:03:00 The Tonight Show: the first appearance
01:03:13 Mitzi Shore of The Comedy Store
01:06:40 Self-sufficiency and gamification
01:14:22 Survival as the new success
01:20:21 Jerry’s billboard

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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 500 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.

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