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Seinfeld
Leaves East Lansing Rolling
EAST LANSING,
MICHIGAN FEBRUARY 25, 2005
Funny man and A-list star Jerry Seinfeld visited the
Wharton Center on MSU's campus to deliver two shows of his stand-up
routine. He was hilarious.
For a twenty minute span near the beginning of the
show I found myself with a runaway case of the giggles.
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Some of the topics Jerry hit on tonight, a few might
surprise you:
- Local and cable news.
- Iraq war including the Abu Ghraib prison scandal,
the U.S.'s bombs & food campaign, & suicide bombers. He dug
into WW2 kamikaze pilots and suggested that maybe these guys were
just the really bad pilots in the Japanese fleet..."You've broken
the landing gear on your last three landings...We've got a special
mission for you."
- Weddings & the perspectives of woman, men, and the
guests on the event. He informed all the ladies of a little
secret: "No one wants to go to your wedding."
- On being Married himself and his trouble
communicating wife his wife. "[the tone of] my
actual speaking voice, that I'm using to communicate with you right
now, is not welcome in my house. That's why I had to come to East
Lansing."
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- Kids (Seinfeld has 2 now), and other people's kids.
"Don't other people's kids look strange to you?".
- His distaste for the Hollywood award shows.
"Setting a night aside to watch these
attention-starved losers get awards for boring half the world (is
idiotic). ... Of course, now that I've got my awards, I can say
that." This drew a couple claps out of the
webmaster. Seinfeld also admitted that he'd be watching
the Oscars this weekend.
He also hit on a few easy targets:
- The prescription drug commercials. While this
seems to be a tired topic, Seinfeld had some original takes.
- Starbucks and the expanding role of coffee in our
society. On Starbucks, Jerry said his friend calls it
"Fourbucks".
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The show starts and ends in an interesting way.
After Joyner finished his set, the lights went down for a few
seconds, then the lights came back on, and Seinfeld jogs out: No
introduction, no fanfare, no nothing. He grabbed the mic and
gave his signature, "Well, well, well..." as he sized up the crowd.
The place went pretty wild when he came out. And he ends the
show taking random questions from the crowd.
Mario Joyner did the warm up act and did a nice job.
Joyner pretty much spent his 15 minutes talking about cell phones.
Another tired topic, but Joyner did a nice job. One person in
our party actually asked a few people if they thought Joyner was
funnier than Seinfeld. (He wasn't, not really even close).
The event was billed by the Wharton Center as the
biggest act they've ever booked - they added a second show after the
first sold out in 15 minutes. It was not an "official" Center
event: word on the street is that Seinfeld simply finds venues and
rents them out. Pretty slick, Jerry. Two shows, up to
$75 per ticket, 2500 seats sold out...looks like the Jerry Seinfeld did a
little better than even-Steven.
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