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...Seinfeld is getting ready for a different sort of ancient ritual: stand-up comedy. "It's kind of that feeling before an ocean swim," he says of facing an audience armed with nothing but jokes. "You know it's gonna be cold at first, but once I get in, it's really fun. And you never know what the waves are going to be like...
...This is what he has been doing on most weekends since Seinfeld went off the air: traveling to stand-up gigs across the country. No press, no entourage, just a tour manager, a garment bag and an opening act (usually one of Seinfeld's old friends-Mario Joyner, Tom Papa or Mark Schiff). "Doing my act and working on that-that's my job," says Seinfeld. "To actually do your creative thing right in front of an audience and have them judge it right there-that's exciting." His life on the road was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Comedian...
...After the release of Bee Movie, Seinfeld plans to return to being a stand-up comic and quasi-stay-at-home dad. Home for Seinfeld (who made a reported $225 million for Seinfeld's syndication alone and appears almost annually on Forbes' list of richest celebrities) is an apartment overlooking Central Park. It's also an estate in the Hamptons, on Long Island, that he purchased for $32 million from Billy Joel in 2000 and a new spread in Telluride, Colo., not far from Tom Cruise's place. He keeps his collection of Porsches (he won't say how many...
...just wanted to get away from that. I missed people yelling at me and treating me like a regular guy." After a few months of doing not much besides playing pool every afternoon at a billiards hall on the Upper West Side, Seinfeld decided to return to being a stand-up comic. During his years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever I have the opportunity to go to an old bar in New York that has that smell-that beer-soaked...
...Katzenberg says animation appealed to Seinfeld "because he's a perfectionist, and it's probably the only form of moviemaking where you can actually get near perfection." Seinfeld disagrees, describing himself as "obsessive, yes; perfectionist, no." For more than three years during production, Seinfeld continued his stand-up gigs on weekends and also oversaw everything from Bee Movie's casting to the most minute hand movements of the animated characters. (He began flying out to the DreamWorks studio so often, in fact, that he eventually rented a house in Bel Air, Calif.) During the final stages of production in August...