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When they leave, Professor Seinfeld sums up: "What you're doing is, you're legitimizing the audience's subjective experience as universal. I don't mean to get too lofty," he adds, "but I do have an honorary doctorate from Queens College, and I think that sentence illustrates...
Class is over; time for lunch. We had planned to go to the midtown diner where Seinfeld usually eats, but once out on Sixth Avenue, he says, "I want a new taste. You work around here--where do you usually have lunch...
...minutes later, Seinfeld is holding a tray in the Time & Life Building's company cafeteria, waiting in line to order a cheeseburger. "And I'll take some of those waffle fries too," he says with a raised eyebrow to the counterman. Earlier, Seinfeld had said that "the danger for a successful comedian is to get a nice mansion in a gated community. You have to put yourself in harm's way, as I do." The counterman hands Seinfeld his burger. "Can I get a pickle with that?" he asks pleasantly...
...Seinfeld doesn't see his old job as an aberration in a lifelong career as a stand-up. "The show worked," he says, "because it absorbed the rule of stand-up comedy, which is, If it's not funny, don't bring it up. In the show, something was either funny or setting up something that was funny, or it wasn't in." He says he likes his former partner Larry David's HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, for precisely the same reason...
Ultimately, Seinfeld is a traditionalist. For him, there's no shame in being Alan King in a tuxedo holding an unlit cigar and the audience's attention. "In fact, it's a high calling," he says. "An honor." Still, wouldn't you be reaching more people and having more of an effect if you were on TV? "Reaching more people, yes. Having more of an effect, no." But what makes you get on that plane every week? Is it the applause? He answers slowly. "Not really. The laugh is the vote...