I got this DVD in June, so it was atop the video cabinet where I have most of my unwatched videos, and I popped it in because I feel that I’m making pretty good progress in at least clearing that media from the top of the video cabinet. Not so much the box atop the video game cartridge cabinet. And I’m hitting a Friends of the Christian County Library book sale this Saturday on bag day, so I’m likely to reload it soon. Also, I just bought a The Complete Series on DVD (at full price on Amazon) which is only a single season, fortunately. But I digress.
So this is a 20th century artifact, and a particularly 1990s one at that. Seinfeld’s humor is very urban, Manhattanish in nature and kinda upper class–he talks about being in airplanes all the time–one of the first bits is about airport security in 1998, and, brother, I am from the future, and you don’t know how good you’ve got it.
A couple bits I laughed at, but I guess I’m more of a Blue Collar Comedy Tour kind of guy.
The video wraps the “live” performance with a skit about Seinfeld holding a funeral for his old “bits,” the comedic riffs which he used both in standup and on his television show. Notable comedians of the time such as Garry Shandling, George Carlin, Robert Klein, Paul Reiser, and Jay Leno and other media people like Ed McMahon and Larry King. Brother, I am from the future, and you don’t know how good you’ve got it.
I’ve read The Seinfeld Universe, and I’ve watched seasons 1 and 2 of Seinfeld. And even with that education, eh, not a big fan. He’s not especially crass, but the observational humor is outside what I normally observe. Probably I should get out of the basement more anyway. But.
It’s not like I’m going to have to dodge videos of his standup specials. It looks like they’re pretty few and far between in his filmography, and the last was on Netflix, so it’s not like I’m going to have the chance to stuff that into my bag on Saturday.
