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A review by tatterededges
Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
2.0
If you watched Seinfeld then you’ve heard 90% of these jokes before.
I thought this was going to be a memoir but it’s actually a book of his stand up which is also fine except that a large part of comedy is the delivery and it fell flat. I listened to the audio book and while it’s read by Seinfeld himself, it is just that: him reading the book rather than delivering the comedy as though he was doing he stand up so sadly, most of it didn’t work.
Also a lot of it is really dated and some of it is a bit racist/sexist and honestly the rape jokes were just appalling and should have been left out altogether.
I thought this was going to be a memoir but it’s actually a book of his stand up which is also fine except that a large part of comedy is the delivery and it fell flat. I listened to the audio book and while it’s read by Seinfeld himself, it is just that: him reading the book rather than delivering the comedy as though he was doing he stand up so sadly, most of it didn’t work.
Also a lot of it is really dated and some of it is a bit racist/sexist and honestly the rape jokes were just appalling and should have been left out altogether.