Word: seinfeldisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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DIED Though his renovation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City drew mixed reviews, Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, 71, counted among his fans Hollywood A listers like Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg, for whom he designed lavish homes...
...time - as in from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. every day - watching television. As a kid, he'd push his tape recorder against the TV so he could transcribe every episode of Saturday Night Live. At his high school radio station, he wangled interviews with comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and Steve Allen; at 15 he started doing stand-up at clubs. He's such a giant comedy nerd that after proudly playing me snippets of his Garry Shandling interview from high school, he takes me into his office in his huge Pacific Palisades, Calif., house to show...
...What was Jerry Seinfeld like as a boyfriend? Oh God, it's so long ago! We had a really fun, happy time. We dated for less than a year. We had a really great time. The thing that always stands out to me about Seinfeld that I'm just blown away by is he's the most together person I've ever met who has not had a day of therapy. It's staggering because he's so together and very sage. He's a great person to ask advice from, be it personal stuff or career, because...
...need the ventriloquist, we need the monkey act, and we need the woman. Well, at least I got on. And I really also felt and still do feel that the guy comedians that I came up with, and boy did I come up with a great class - Jerry Seinfeld was the MC the night I auditioned at the Comic Strip along with Paul Reiser, whom I went to college with. Jerry introduced me to Jay Leno when I moved out to L.A., and we quickly became friends. I think of them all as big brothers to me to this...
...doing stand-up now? Yes. I'm still doing my stand-up. I learned very quickly in my Seinfeld years - I got a little lax about it, and then I went onstage after not having been onstage for a while, and it was like, oops. If you don't use it, you lose it, and I saw that it's a really nifty skill to have learned, especially so early in my life when you're not fully formed, to have all the fear mechanisms in place. I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because...