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His name is Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld. The 65-year-old comic channels legendary spy James Bond in a teaser for his upcoming Netflix stand-up special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill,” which premieres May 5. The trailer borrows from the infamous “Goldfinger” scene in which the title villain threatens to slice a tied-down 007 in half with …
His name is Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld.
The 65-year-old comic channels legendary spy James Bond in a teaser for his upcoming Netflix stand-up special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill,” which premieres May 5.
The trailer borrows from the infamous “Goldfinger” scene in which the title villain threatens to slice a tied-down 007 in half with a laser — starting at his crotch. It turns out Seinfeld’s nemesis, a one-eyed “super villain,” is having financial problems and wants Seinfeld to tell him how to earn “comedy-special money.”
Judging from the short clip, the special’s viewers can expect laughs borne from Seinfeld’s penchant for observational humor about mundane life minutiae. After the Bond tribute, the comedy legend gets straight into one of his famous bits.
“Who designed the bathroom stall with the under-display viewing window, so we can all see the lifeless, collapsed pant legs and tragic little shoe fronts that are just barely poking out from underneath the impotent belt lying helpless?” asks Seinfeld in the teaser. “How much more money is it to bring this wall down another foot?”
The show, filmed at New York’s Beacon Theatre, is his first original stand-up special since 1998’s “I’m Telling You for the Last Time.”
In 2017, he released “Jerry Before Seinfeld,” which chronicles a visit to New York club Comic Strip Live, where he got his start. His recent work isn’t just limited to his own stand-up, either: Seinfeld also helped David Byrne change a joke in the Talking Heads singer’s hit Broadway show “American Utopia.”
