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2020
IS THIS ANYTHING?
Jerry Seinfeld
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IS THIS ANYTHING?

by Jerry Seinfeld

Simon & Schuster · 2020

Peak rank

#2

Weeks on list

13

Chart History

#15101520202021

13 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #2

The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,” Seinfeld writes. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.” For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another, readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.

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Details

ISBN-13
9781982112691
ISBN-10
1982112697
Published
2020
Pages
480
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Categories
Biography & Autobiography

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