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Videos: Jerry Seinfeld Talks Bombing At Queens Disco, Performs Stand-Up On Fallon
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 24, 2014
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Jerry Seinfeld was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night as a triple threat: performing stand-up, anointing Fallon with a world record, and best of all, discussing his worst stand-up experience. It involves a disco on Queens Boulevard in 1977, and a lot of terrible left-handed jokes. Watch it below.
During the actual broadcast, Seinfeld did over 5 minutes of new stand-up, right after Fallon gave out free flatscreen TVs to the audience. Seinfeld has some fun playing off of the holiday cheer, noting, "all things on Earth are in different stages of becoming garbage." We're going to go out on a limb with this one but, damn it, sometimes we must make bold proclamations: that Seinfeld is pretty alright at this comedy thing. This kid is going places.
And finally, Seinfeld presented Fallon with an award for being his longest guest on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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