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JERRY SEINFELD came out of early retirement last week to bring the world up to date on everything he's been doing for the past three years. It took about eight minutes. In an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Seinfeld shared the obligatory picture of his four-month-old daughter Sascha and chatted about his annual head-clearing cross-country drives. His stand-up material consisted of diatribes against people who ask other people to say hello for them; Jared, the formerly obese Subway-sandwich dieter; and the folks at Pizza Hut, who insist on hiding cheese...
...make inside jokes - about the industry, its most prominent employees and the stately ludicrousness of the event itself - that nearly a billion viewers around the world can pretend to understand. This year, that task fell to Martin, the first WASP to chair the event since David Letterman in 1995 (bad omen) and the first white-haired guy since Johnny Carson (1979-82 and 1984). Indeed, Martin's persona is a gloss on the old "Tonight Show" star; for 30 years he's played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your...
...particularly since this year Steve Martin was going to lift the schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...
...similar program, Robot Wars, is a hit in Britain and is rerun on some PBS stations.) They shopped a series to cable networks, and Comedy Central bit, seeing a good fit for its young male audience. (Anyone who argues that demolition isn't comedy has obviously never seen David Letterman drop a watermelon off a six-story building...
...married to a lawyer and openly admits "I'm not rock 'n' roll," has become an international pop star. His wide-eyed visage is plastered throughout London subway stations. He has appeared on flagship American television programs such as Saturday Night Live and the Late Show with David Letterman. He schmoozed with Prince Charles and Gwyneth Paltrow. ("I swore a lot when I met her," Gray says. "I'm a terrible swearer.") For a guy who not long ago had to insult audience members to get them to listen, this sudden stardom is both unfamiliar and intoxicating. "Everything...