Jerry Seinfeld has often been regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time, a tag he doesn’t like. As he has said on multiple occasions, it creates a perspective in the mind of the audience that they’re in for the funniest act they’ve ever seen. And most of the times, Jerry has found himself under the radar of some people who never found him funny enough.
Another reason is the lack of standup specials that Jerry has put over the years. Jerry Seinfeld: Stand-Up Confidential in 1987, I’m Telling You For The Last Time in 1998, and then just a long gap. He returned to standup 19 years later, when he did “Jerry Before Seinfeld” in 2017 at The Comic Strip. And then a few years later, he returned with his special “23 Hours To Kill” which as per reviews failed to please the audience. So here’s a detailed review of what the special offered.
Introduction
Jerry Seinfeld’s 23 Hours to Kill was performed and recorded at The Beacon Theatre in New York City. But this time, Jerry brings in his Seinfeldian style of observation from his experience of writing and observing for over 5 decades. No content of his standup special will make you question anything, because you see it happening, ALL THE TIME. What makes this special unique from all his previous works was his observations as a married man. Not only this, there are some jokes on the new generation lingo, and the rise of the digital world.
Content
Jerry makes a very non-Seinfeld kind of entry, which would actually make you gasp a bit. For a guy who’s in his late 60s, this entry was actually the highlight of the show, and was enough to keep you seated waiting for the show to begin. And then enters Jerry on the stage and starts bombarding the crowd with one joke after the another.
Seinfeld has often said that if you’ve been in the business for a long time, people would love to see your iconic acts. They might have seen you do the same joke multiple times, but they’ve laughed on all those occasions and definitely would listen to you do more of it. And that’s how he starts the show. With his famous, and the first ever he did on Seinfeld, the “we are all out” bit.
He continues to bring in a few of his jokes from the late 80s, giving the audience both a moment of laughter and nostalgia. And then he quickly make jump to some annoying things of today’s world. An entire 20 minute act of everything that is wrong with the smartphones. And during this entire act, you’d be wondering and questioning yourself that how come it’s happening everyday around you, and yet you weren’t able to find the humour in it.
The show then slowly starts to transition into his new material focused around his observations during the early 2000s. Jerry moves on with his act and talks about a major phase in his life, getting married. And that’s when the special reaches its peak. Jerry’s take on understanding women, adapting to a married life, getting more balanced and yet confused makes the crowd relate to him even more. But the show closes in on a weaker note and no one can deny it.
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