02363cam a2200409 i 4500 437756939 TxAuBib 20200921120000.0 200923s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2020022074 9781982112691 HRD 35.00 1982112697 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib rda Seinfeld, Jerry. Is this anything? / Jerry Seinfeld. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020. ©2020. 470 pages ; 25 cm. 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties -- The double o's -- The teens. Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance. "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." -- Amazon.com. 20200928. jz. Seinfeld, Jerry. American wit and humor. Stand-up comedy. Comedians. Humor. Anecdotes. Autobiographies.