“It almost looks like a book of poetry…It made me realize a joke is a precision instrument, every word is a beat.” -Susan Morrison, The New Yorker
It’s like an artist being a copyist at a museum you learn by emulating the strokes of others.” -Steve Martin in the New York Times Book Review “Jerry Seinfeld’s new book, Is This Anything?… I enjoy opening it, pretending I’m Jerry and making my wife laugh with Jerry’s material. In this “trove of laugh-out-loud one-liners” (Associated Press), you 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. “So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.”įor this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. “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. 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. The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” ( The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.
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