Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman (Full Program)

so I could not be more thrilled to introduce tonight's moderator David Letterman okay I think I believe so yeah thank you thank you very much it's a great pleasure to be a part of this and I must apologize I was nearly tardy I was told the Javits Center that would have been a lot more people yes and well not necessarily listen I've been I've been studying this project and I've been making notes and so forth and I feel like I want to throw everything away and begin from scratch because just having seen the Sarah Jessica Parker show I thought that was all you needed for a show I thought that was delightful I think and without without knowing it seemed to me that that was the essence of what this show is am I am I right about that well yes but it really was a kind of a guess I mean I really couldn't imagine when I thought of the idea that that could be a show that first of all you could that you would get enough stuff so that you could make it want you know long enough to be worth watching but that was where the internet the show happening at the time that it did and the internet and being able to watch things streaming and if it had you know a few years ago I never could have done it so the fact that I could make the shows any length I wanted that and they gave me the freedom to do it all right now this brings up several questions I was I had to ask to be on your show I was not included in the initial run day that's correct yes so so in my ignorance I assumed all shows were the same length now having gone through the catalogue of your shows I realize they're at varying lengths yes and and so as competitive as I am I'm afraid to know what the length of my show wants to be very high good thank you very high but that's there's not all your fault I mean it's a spoon wait a minute so you're applying there was fault yeah well it's a completely natural obviously unscripted there's no preparation of any kind so conversation is good or bad it's just that we know in the land of cable television we all must know now that there is a show about anything on a channel about anything and there is a channel devoted entirely to automotive interests now there is yes you're not aware highest dot TV or whatever what is it it's called velocity of velocity okay are you familiar with well I guess not I'm not know so you're telling me that if you wanted to pick up the phone tomorrow and say what do you think would you be interested in carrying comedians in cars getting coffee are you my agent I mean this is it's the idea of the show the idea of the show honestly was to try and create something that fit a whole new medium right I really was thinking what would be a good TV show for a phone that was really where I started right and what thought this would be fun for a phone because you're not the father story but also your premise was that this is the kind of show that could never be listened to in a pitch form at a traditional Network yes and now I'm telling you there exists a network that would welcome but let's get into figures then what are we talking I don't know so the the other question is to me and I thought about this could we have done the show without cars could it be just coming out comedians getting coffee now comedians playing cards now coffee no comedians fishing getting call no no and these are just my theories they're personal I don't know if they're they hold water but these are my theories I think part of what makes this show watchable is it's moving mm-hmm there's an energy right when you have no narrative drive you're not telling a story no one's waiting to see what happens we know they're going to get coffee that's the only story right you need a kinetic energy so it was like take a talk show and make it move and make it outside and then maybe you could sit through the 11 o clock minutes whatever I said what was mine yours was the maximum we've ever done at that time I think it was over 20 no it was 18 yeah well that's the cable so this watching you and Sarah Jessica Parker of raises so many questions for me really yes I'm envious of this this is a lovely project and heretofore I thought that the car was only be here's what I originally thought yeah because I know you have a collection of cars yeah and I thought you had found a way to write them off I don't think the public would frown on that oh that's just fun and so heretofore I thought it was more symbolic because I'll give you an example symbolic symbolic yes because Howard Stern your ear in the GTO mmm-hmm from the 60s I believe a big huge muscle car very very popular and Howard couldn't have cared less about that's all right well a little bit he kind of thought it was a little interesting yes said he liked that on the back was the iconic logo the judge yes he's a judge on the the America's Idol top right Allen show yeah however you and Jessica Parker in the station wagon yeah I thought the car made perfect sense yeah well that was her car she had just bought it and we was talking to her about what kind of car she said well I just bought this car I go well that's kind of a good tie in so let's use that but it was perfect and and even if you two had not gotten coffee the show was in the car and I thought well here we have now the essence but this is what Jerry was striving for well but in the diner we got the the Rye bread bit came back and the the guy who doesn't know where to look so you know you need moving the guest here's another theory of mine moving people around keeps them awake right but we'll and here's another question having hosted a show of my own do you you do you dr you looking for the personality as a guest to be the dominant influence or do you want to be the dominant influence or do you want to be equal it doesn't matter as long as I can engage with the person I it's really amazing to me that you who are probably even crankier than me are able to engage you're able to engage with almost anybody I don't have that breadth of interactive ability I pretty much engage with funny people or weird people or you know kind of off people who anybody who is a little normal even just like let's say a normal actor or actress I'm lost I got nothing I'm not curious I'm not interested you got a show I don't care you know I could be this great thirty years of my life I saw the show that's great I saw the show with Tina Fey yeah Tina Fey a tremendous comic talent fantastic I'm in in any venue in any form anyone I saw the show with you and and Tina and it seemed to me like a first date where the two of you were well all talk and far as dates I mean I don't know Tina that well okay so now we see Sarah Jessica Parker hmm and this was Ringling Brothers i I know Sarah so you have a relationship yeah but there are other people ricky gervais for example i don't really know you and i are friends mostly working right but people would think you know we kind of where our relationship is somewhat casual who that fair to say i think so and yet most people would watch that and think that we're very friendly that we see each other all the time well that oh that's not just the relationship some certain people are just you know well I was very impressed by this one the Sarah Jessica Parker thing and and and what what also was reinforced in this one is the physical look of the show and if I looked at the credits would I see a scenic designer or of a photographic designer or are these just ideas you had visually some of them are mine yeah I kind of like I mean that car I didn't like to photograph because I it's just kind of boring well forget the car I like the little interstitial transitional of videos of coffee and whatever people in this and that that's kind of a Pavlovian thing that we do you know it's like if you like coffee and you like it's just it's just the car in the coffee I don't know I just kind of had this idea that people like those things let's make a show with those things you're gonna really we're going to kind of pour over these things it with affection right and I like doing that and I'm saying the one we just saw here this evening was more coffee of cars and comedians than coffee coffee took a 3rd place in this where it's the comedian and the coffee as opposed to the car what do you like when we did our show or I did your show how much video did we shoot we did quite a while we may have done almost three and a half hours is that typical yeah that's typical it seems to work it's really weird it seems to give me just enough and I brought a thing if if I may to show what you know like the actual moment feels like and what we make it into so this is raw material yeah just completely raw like 60 seconds I think the first one is me and Bob Einstein what really happened because none of this is in the rhythm and the pace and the feeling right after so I want to I wanted to show you a little bit about you know what we're making out of the raw material so I brought the raw material and the finished product okay and by the way Bob Einstein to to my tastes a tremendous choice for this maybe on the esoteric side but nonetheless here's a guy is just one of those guys well yeah a lot going on yeah lot going okay let's see where do we we take a look at it here yeah can we roll that with over the first couple of what marry deficit enjoy thank you the first couple who feels like an idiot right now I'll tell you who not me you don't feel like an idiot you do why because look at the crap you got and look at the authentic apparently I'm at my restaurant it's not restaurant it's restaurant so George if he was so proud of me so oh my god by fun pasta please don't take your teeth out again watch it with Minh coffee and then put him back in please don't do that and I didn't offer this in office gave this whatever it I had my teeth taken out judge with a gag lose anything for a laugh sue oh that felt good you wanted this how good is yeah I'm the police take happy no no if it's the last thing you do we're gonna be like Larry David no I'm just try this okay so if I try that when you take this no magnificent oh my god Oscar please don't take your teeth out again sorry fella you won on this one how good is that I'm gonna please paint happen no it's the last thing you do if I try that when you take this no all right what do you want to bite my give me that hat you take the whole half just to take a bite I know I'll cut it open to put your hands all over everything guys that's right I am where you were gonna put your hands on my sandwich here touch my heart now checking it again I'm very clean we're having a horrible day people are funny here I think oh yeah and then here is where you get the blowing of the nose after the meal a complete head Claire it's usually this well wow wow wow is this baby yeah Wow well there you go so uh I have one more if you want to see it yeah do you mind if I comment on that one first okay if now if that were me the first one that we saw the raw footage at some point I would have done this I would have wiped my mouth I was at Bob excuse me for a second and I would have walked over to someone with the show and I would have said this is not working all right right how how do you how do you notice to hang in I go and I didn't when I did the first ten shows which is why I didn't invite you by the way because I didn't know or think that it would work I was really a pure just kind of a home garage experiment it was a pure experiment and now that people have seen the show your guests do they know more about what is expected of them yeah yeah that makes them nervous because you watch the edited and you think well gee I can't be that of course nobody can yeah it's when you compress it and put music and the little tricks up right what's the next the next one is being Sarah Silverman in a doughnut shop Sarah Silverman adonijah yeah and by the way this is not hard to look no not at all this is about like I watch at home like I would love if you wouldn't mind for you to give me a little opinion of different Donuts what you like and don't like him why I love it all but I love this kind of that kind of that little thing oh that little thing is so pride right it is what is it this is kind of like an elephant ear like a piece of annoyance Oh Oh phantom a phantom sure I'm so good but it's kind of like an elephant year but just a little piece I think I've some madness going on here don't they yeah what's the light color oh I'm looking there's another one back there with a black coffee and that is my body that's facing the ground what about these fellas here honestly my favorite thing would be good river lies sure what about this thing looks like a spice cake we want to get some scratch off lottery ticket we want the $5 oh I don't know I don't understand if I get two words with three words I get money seven words my brain is already shut down there you go so it's remarkable the editing process takes how long per show an average uh few weeks a few weeks and do you have in your mind as you're shooting a script that form no it forms as you're watching it I'll tell you one of the most amazing things just as long as we're sitting here did you see this area Jessica thing with which she was talking about harry chapin which just came up that her mother would listen to that music right and then I mentioned while he died on this road we're on and then she does the cat's cradle with the string which is the song we were talking about now those are the cob viously that's not planned no but those kinds of things you have to see them and then go oh wait a minute that we got something there right and then you juxtapose them and hope that the audience kind of catches on right and good for you and and god bless you because those things don't always happen now and the only thing close to that in the first clip was Bob Einsteins hair piece yeah so that is a showbiz secret Dave oh I don't want it supposed to no good at least it's not going anywhere so but I do find it remarkable and the music for God's sakes the music makes it seem like here we are Sarah Silverman of myself and we're enjoying picking out pastries yeah it's all a trick yeah yeah it's a versus your old show Seinfeld hmm how many hours do you commit to an episode of this versus how many hours you committed to that one now this you know just a few hours to get together and then I sit in the edit which I enjoy I don't know why I enjoy it but I like just piecing it together what's interesting is if you have a real narrative and I discovered this and we did a bit with Jason Alexander for the Superbowl and Larry David and I wrote a scene that takes place in the little diner and if you put music under a scene that has actual written narrative it ruins the same but since this has no drive-through no point the music doesn't fight with it and it just seems to kind of carry fills in the little gaps right and what what have you learned of these people stepping away from the process now what have you learned about these people they didn't know before what have you learned about yourself well that that which is I mean I've known it my whole life and but I it's an unbelievable thrill to me to show it to the public which is that this is a breed of human this is a subset bizarre Pekinese you know your breed of human and that they're all have a similarity right because I can relate to them that's another bizarre breed people I can relate to but so that that's what I've learned is that these people are all the same now I know that getting back to the the tired question in comparison about why wouldn't this show work on a network and you don't want to take notes from people and you don't do pre interviews and so on and so forth and in looking at earlier shows I thought one of the strongest shows I saw was louis c.k because in Louis CK's episode it was dominated first of all the activity of Louis on the boat I thought was remarkable yeah because good luck to him pulling out of the West Side yeah into the Hudson yeah a lot of thrusters and I looked over his shoulders yeah and pier pilings and so forth I was fascinated by that and then when you get to where you guys drop anchor and then he tells the story about getting the thing stuck I found that fascinating and there was very little discussion about comedy and you're like me were both subhuman or whatever it was you said but but but it that was almost of a traditional talk-show situation um yeah yeah although you know this at one moment in there here's another thing I really love about the show Louis starts talking about it he's got to take his daughters uptown to go to school in it and they got to wait for the bus he likes to wait for the bus he doesn't want to hire a car and and they they're gonna freeze and then he says this is going to be a tough winter and and ice and then he said but I think I'm gonna miss it we start talking about something can be really bad in your life and you could still miss it mm-hmm because it had to do with this kid and that's a sweet little moment that would get crushed in front of a live audience you couldn't even you couldn't even get to that that he and I just kind of sit there and go wow that's really nice that's a nice thought I'm gonna miss this horrible winter I'm about to go through because I'm going to wait outside with my kids and in the freezing cold and I like that I can do that that I can include that and it will it'll work I'll put it between two jokes you know and and people will get something out of that well what you just described there I think is universal people would respond to that irrespective of the venue but it doesn't come out of the person in a let's call this a show business traditional context where you put a comedian front of an artist Dave and no one knows it better than you they're going for the joke they're gone for the joke yes but if Louis kay were here tonight and I understand he was your first choice yeah and and he related that's that story irrespective of context I think people would respond he's not going to go into the story cuz there's no punch line to it because he's a comedian and he's built that way and you got to get them away from the audience to get him to talk through you know about things that aren't necessarily you know reaction so you're thinking that he would probably that would never come up on if he were a guest on my show that's we wouldn't hear that I don't think so I don't think so I mean it wasn't really anything to it plus telling how he gets high impact well that that was you know I love that yeah I mean that was just delightful yeah yeah the blue numbers how he loves the blue time getting ready for a 3d movie yeah that was that was lovely yeah and and and would this work with other people not just comedians you need jokes to get through it so without the jokes you can't even attempt I think although the tonight was our my first night hearing a live audience watch an episode and I was you know quite excited to hear that people laugh because you don't know we make the things we put him on the internet we don't know if anyone's yeah but laughs but again and I just don't mean to be contrarian Sarah Jessica Parker that interaction was not typically jokes that was just two friends making each other laugh no in there making comments and saying things about that we both understand and we have this in common enough they can run about the car right Brad rye bread is a joke in this show that's a joke right presenter that a joke now you said earlier that when you had the idea for the show you wanted to make a show for a phone mm-hmm now is that typically how people watch this show now it isn't no it isn't they watch that work when they're supposed to be working which we found out they give you these analytics for these things and they tell you when time they watch and how long it right there they're screwing off work watching my show and and is this a an Internet are you a true pioneer here is this an Internet success is this a one-of-a-kind and we will now see more like this is this is this different than the Funny or Die how is it different from that well in Funny or Die they say Funny or Die and yet no one dies so so that's your name point yeah I complain about that but well I'll tell you the thing that I'm proud of is that I met with that had that top Facebook guy the top YouTube lady the top you know CAA the head of the digital king of CAA this is the genius who sees the future that you can't even comprehend right okay and they before I start this and they say they listen and they go yeah maybe might be a show they say but you can't make it longer than five minutes if you make it longer than five minutes the audience is going to be gone and that I ignored that and made it what I thought that people would listen to just a gamble just a guess and that we did exceed that five mythic said five minutes is the internet firewall you can't go past it five minutes is the internet firewall yeah you can't watch anything that they have quantified the American attentions without five minutes Wow but our average viewer watches 19 minutes see I'm fascinated first of all because I made a living in comedy and because I also love cars where does the love of your cars come from it we learned in the thing that you had to make a choice between motorcycles which I never knew that you rode motors yes and automobiles I think you made the right choice thank you why well you saw where I grew up in that episode and the cars meant everything in those days that was how you're going to see the world I thought I mean if most guys you grew up with the same I'm sure is like that thing is the thing that's going to get me away from my parents and out into the world yeah so it had a tremendous romance right but everybody probably shares some version of that as a kid being in the backseat being ignored or causing trouble or both but you you're you pursued it beyond just oh yeah I'm memories of the car yes I'm obsessed with cars and I don't really know why but I think they're amazing cultural objects I mean each one of those cars I mean look at those people reacting to that right useless station wagon oh I remember I thought it was another theory of my mind with the show as I thought people would enjoy seeing things they don't realize they don't see anymore mm-hmm you know a VW Bug well I think I think that's absolutely you know fun to show you those even if you're not a car person you go oh that used to be in my vision all the time and now it's gone right another show that I enjoyed greatly watching it was your visit with Carl Reiner first and then from Carl Reiner you go to his friend's house alpha L Brooks we went to Carl's house and Mel came over for dinner oh that's right Mel always comes over for dinner right and I thought that was lovely yeah you hadn't met them before yes I knew Carl and we did we actually did a show together and he started telling me how him and Mel get together every night and they watch jeopardy and then they eat on TV trays right well you can imagine my excitement I mean really this is like these legendary guys right the TV trays I mean so I called Mel I said would you mind if I came in and he said that a lot of people had asked that they wanted to shoot this and I was very fortunate that they they let me do it how long do you spend few hours are all few hours yeah and Mel Brooks is indefatigable am I correct about that MMH probably still talking yes really amazed yeah and they do you as a comedian is there anything you can learn from these guys uh well I don't care I don't want to learn I'm not here to learn I really I just like being I just love being around right honestly this has been my life I mean most people know us as guys on stage they know everything they've watched thousands of hours of you on camera they don't know you have this other life which I know about of knucklehead guys that you will talk to for hours right of nonsense that entertain you know this that's what I wanted to show this this brings up something that I've known all my life for when I first moved from Los Angeles there are guys and we know the one I'm talking about there are guys who are in comedy and they are funnier yeah at the table yes than they will ever be as range what's the deal on that you know I own that phrase but I just say that my legal replication clearing I won't be taking any the deal is an act is not being funny and you know this I apologize but the audience doesn't being funny has not that much do to do with what a great comedy act is about a great comedy act is a machine that's built being funny is the fuel but you got you got to have a whole machine to burn it and that's the act and a lot of Bob my sign doesn't stand up on stage by himself neither does Alec Baldwin and mmm-hmm but so this is another way I thought I could capture that you're referring to an attitude that's consistent you know I'm done things through an attitude and it comes up funny you feed things through your own perspective and attitude and a joke structure segues a shaping of themes and I mean you got to build an act has to be built and you you claim that all comedians suffer irritation you claim yes I claim yes it it says here your honor yes enormous Lee people that are born they wake up they open their eyes they're incredibly irritated immediately as soon as the day before the day even starts are unbelievably irritated which everybody else is too but they can't articulate it as well let me give you just a brief example from my own life how I feel very lucky to be surrounded by the people I'm surrounded button and I have a group of old friends from grade school and from high school and this past weekend we went on a fishing trip and they're all old guys like me Wow and and I went there's a place bakery in New York Billy's cakes all right yeah well I just I don't eat a lot of dessert but if you're going to eat dessert it's Billy's cakes where is this I don't know just give me this tell us I don't know where if the New York City okay oh it's in the city New York city you're going fishing in New York said oh no we're going fishing in Indiana at a lake in southern India you get a bite in New York City and then I buy a cake yeah because I think this will be great when at the end of the day efficient we'll have this my favorite cake and because I'm always hoping to make people laugh because I'm irritating or irritated and desperate right right so I have the people at Billy's right on the cake good luck Cindy CIN di that's thank you yeah thank you very much that's fun that's so after dinner they're not comedian after dinner when he got here oh Jesus Cindy Wow so for 45 minutes I have to explain this yes there there what are you doing is no Cindy no of course not sure why I bet it was her birthday no maybe and then then so now I'm playing along no I think it was graduation no I had him put good luck Cindy because I thought we'd all get a laugh oh yes I love I laugh that's a comedian joke there was a great she only tell me a great comedian joke see I could tell they won't get you will laugh nobody else I'm not gonna tell like all right come on Jerry Nellie it's not it's only funny to comedians you want to hear it yeah okay comedian gets a job performing at Alzheimer's Clinic guy says zoom look these people are very sick they're they have Alzheimer's but we're so happy to just have anyone here some kind of entertainment if you can just go out whatever you could do we're just so grateful to have entertainment the guy goes out comedian he's very nervous he tells his first joke gigantic laugh massive laughs he thinks for a second you know you see where this has gone he tells the same joke again another left even bigger than the first one the punchline of this joke I'm like is not gonna get a laugh okay I'm just telling you so he tells the same joke again and again and then he's killing the plate they're screaming they're falling out of their chair see all the time he's doing the show there's a guy in the back just doing this just watching the scene watching the set you know very not laughing just watching comes off thunderous round of applause standing ovation everybody congratulating this other guy comes over he says that was quite a show you just did there the guy says thank you very much does let me ask you a question how do you remember all that very good I'm surprised every okay I'm surprised you liked that because uh most comedians and the only comedians know for some reason this is the big question that a regular person will ask you after a show how do you remember it well that's right I don't know why they asked the others you don't have anything else to remember and in the guest that I read that you would like and have asked to be on the show and has not been on the show is Woody Allen well yeah I did ask Woody Allen and he said he was gonna think about it I don't know if he's seen it or has any idea of what it who would be or if he would want to do something like that but so you would not there would not be a follow-up call you just sort of know I don't like to I don't like to bother people yeah and but you really were the biggest get off stop yes you were beep I fact that you did the show really made it something that people started to pay attention to and I'm very grateful to you for that well that's very sweet of you now but but I'm not and here another true story from my own life I was so happy then that it was cars getting comedians and coffee or whatever because I thought I will this will be my crutch the car I will yak about this car right until Jerry decides it's time to pack up his items and go home but that didn't happen well if there is a there's a great pressure to be honest with you but there really isn't it just it's because you're watching the edited version which is not real that nothing nobody acts like that for 13 minutes right but but I'll bet you the ratio was your strike rate was higher with Sarah Jessica Parker than it was with me I don't know damn you've done 30 years of television you're right great it's pretty good yeah how do I remember all that and how many seasons of this will you do I'm gonna do a couple more years they booked which is not that much it's six I do 12 year and I really enjoy doing them and I I just can't believe people are enjoying no I I'm very envious of this oh thank because recently I announced my retirement and my friends keep telling me well what will you do in retirement and the answer that I have coalesce now in my head is I'm going to look for a job this this is a tremendous I I can think it but this must be it and forgive me for assuming things that you may never have thought about but I think this would be as satisfying as Seinfeld oh that's real don't you think that's even more over the top than what I just said about you oh no no Dave no well how can this not this because would you like stories with characters and Kramer coming in the day this is this is a this is a order this is a tapestry I think there's more to this than you're willing okay if you're being sincere I'm very flattered but I don't know really what you're talking about what why do you why do you think this is the only way I think that this show it has anything that's interesting is I've really kind of introduced the idea of the edited talk show at without an audience right but it's not like you have writers no you don't have directors you don't have a producer I do I have a producer other than yourself yeah somebody says listen we got to have a camera on Wednesday I'm not making that call but you give them you could you can get a temp to do that yeah and we have that amazing things with you into editing excuse me I say who goes with you into editing I have the editor I have my producer Dennis and Tammy and the the four of us sit there and we I watched the whole here's the hardest part of the show what I got to watch the entire day again great Groundhog Day yeah and because there's always some little thing in there that you know shows that have been on the the crackle whatever happened to snappin pop are there still in the business now we bought them and bought them yeah I can't watch my own show are their shows in this run that you have trouble looking at or you're you like no I can't watch any of them can't watch it by the time I'm done with it I don't want you've seen it so many times I can't yeah yeah is there something now that you're thinking I wish Dave would ask me you can ask me why did you have no interest in taking over my show all right is that a good question all right and by the way why not we can still make that happen another thing isn't the ink hasn't drop no I would you would you do a I mean now that you have this this is all you want this is all I would want I'm the size I said to you early on I said what about this and I was serious comedians on horseback getting coffee yeah and and you just said come on yeah and I said no no this would be great because you have comedians on horses and then you get these beautiful vistas of the West and been by and large most comedians have not been on horses so we learn more about them that way than riding around in a station wagon but you wouldn't need to do if it weren't for this would you have considered taking my job no no first of all you're such a stop it okay but I I wanted to try and do something that I thought you know was kind of I love the idea of this new medium I love the idea of a new concept it made me want to do a little work mm-hmm you know which normally you don't want to do if you don't have to but you still work quite actively doing stand-up that's I love it - two nights a week is about what you do about and what are the parameters of that do you have a travel limit like I'll go to the west coast and then I'll do something I'll go anywhere but I don't want to do more than two nights in the week cuz I like to get home get home with the kids and the family yeah I understand that yeah yeah and they do do the kids enjoy the I don't know if they've seen it actually have to have they seen it sweetie not really I catch them watching the TV series once in a while that's a bizarre moment walk in a bedroom and your kids are watching yeah and I said to my daughter why why are you watching this are you watching it because your dad's on it because or cuz you like the show mm-hmm and she thought for a minute she went I don't know that's true I love the the we talked about the the episode where it's the Volvo and I just for some reason again I felt like here now the car is a structural part of the show Tina Fey irrespective of Tina Fey I loved looking at that Volvo and you said that the thing had a million miles on it not that one but other Volvo's of that time of that type three million three million is up to 3 million but but why isn't Volvo making cars that look like that now because we have a lot of electronics and a lot of government agencies and lawyers that require cars to be safe and clean and not emit certain things and and they have to fulfill all of those legal things in those days if you want to make a car make a car if you can sell it sell that's what made those cars so much more interesting but it was a beautiful car well and I think one does not consider a Volvo a beautiful car ok that one was but you know you know all this they can't make cars that's another thing of the show remember when cars were fun that's another one in my yeah you've had a breakdown you've been hassled by police you had him break down yeah and that's all great for the show that's all right what's the Chris Rock one was very funny I really enjoyed getting stopped by cop he was really nervous what what was his car lamborghini miura yeah and what were the circumstances the breakdown that car didn't break down we got stopped by the cop and the cop said to me is this your car I said no sir and it's part of the show he's seen I cut that off and then it's a joke yeah and but Chris was actually scared because he's black and getting stopped by a white cop he thought something bad was going to happen and and ricky gervais that was the breakdown no it was patton oswalt in the DeLorean that car bro the DeLorean no what was your impression of the DeLorean forget Patton already bad what was your impression of the DeLorean it's pretty bad but it's such a funny story I'm sure you remember Carson putting money into it and the Irish plant that they were making these ridiculous cars and this thing arrogant guy with a chin implant John Z DeLorean who came up with the GTO that's how he made big big guy into general yeah yeah it seems like they got the same folks still there by the way and it's just a funny car it's a funny car but the story about Johnny and his car he had invested a million dollars in the DeLorean Motor Company and then you know the rest of the story did he what did he get one he got one and he's driving it into Burbank for Malibu and quits on this on the Venturer freeway oh my god he's there with his car has DeLorean his car of the future up against the guardrail right in the mall like I didn't know that had you suppose Johnny was upset I would have included that I had a picture of him in one of the cars yep that was the deal on that and then I think John DeLorean had to go away for he went away for a while you know Jerry I just I'm so happy to be here with you thank you dan and I just want to make sure I have all of these notes that I haven't looked at so again I'm gonna ask you what have I overlooked what it's time now for old business I thought well no no what do you want to talk of nothing what do you want to ask me what's your favorite car these days to drive you have some cars yes a cigar not on the level of yours it's not true yeah but I I took out an old 911 a couple of weeks ago with my son right and I was telling you this upstairs the the ventilation heating system in these 911s was never why you bought the car because let's face it the weather in Germany just fine and all of a sudden the motor the fan motor caught fire and filled the car with smoke and Harry thought this was as much fun as you're ever going to have in a car we had to pull off and jump open the doors and hit the ground rolling and it was just fantastic it's like the louis c.k story where the boat gets stuck in there there for 12 hours yeah that was a great story and they said we just had it specially that that's right now see that gave me a view of louis c.k I would not have had here - right and I found that first of all what's Louie CK doing on a boat does he have a licence can you get allies yeah yeah he is that that's Louie see he knew nothing about it decided to get into it him he is a fearless guy I said I'll go out I'll make all these mistakes I'll screw it up and then I'll learn how to do it but could you what I related to was the ignominy of Louie putting his boat with his kids in the mud close enough to land the the west side where people gathered yeah and recognized him Louie and now he realizes until the tide comes out he's got 12 full hours of Louie I mean that's like everybody's worst nightmare yeah yeah it was great now it was great I'm told that we have questions from the audience and I don't know how that is facilitated there's a woman right there what is your name ma'am okay well gave to give you the mic but by the way and keep the microphones when we're done thank you so much what is your name oh sweet Eileen Eileen all right um my question for Jerry is uh you're singing the theme song now oh that was fantastic did you think that was that was great and I just thought this show can't get any better and then he comes on singing the damn theme song and there was never did you write the words yeah yeah I wrote oh my god well there you go well I thought that the show looked like a 60 sitcom so why that was the the idea of that joke but it doesn't look like a 66 well I thought with the old Ford and she and I looked like a married couple in the Levittown the music was very 60s sitcom II well I thought it was a great touch I just like I said I liked the look of it and I thought this was the perfect addition to what was already there I'm so glad Eileen do you have any other questions what what did you want it out dear what did you want to know I wanted to know a little bit about why I decided to do the theme so why I sang the song with you and well you know this is the reason I would I'm not doing other things is because I don't have to ask anybody about anything I just the first time that anything you wants the Internet this is the first time you're singing in public is this no I've sang before I have time before Eileen is there anything you'd like to sing god bless you and I know you're lying thank you but louis c.k is all very proud of his relationship with FX because he yeah that's yeah cool yeah so why again why not you somewhere else no oh with this thing yeah oh I don't know who knows who cares okay yeah yes sir right there in the hoody you could talk weak I'm sure we could hear you yeah hi there um so hearing that you have to on Justin I actually was your intern in 2002 okay yeah intern we're at the delayed show uh he remembers me well I mean but but this question is for charity how's your sister um so I think I know the answer cuz you alluded that and let someone else you alluded that you spent about three three and a half hours with the guests and then it ends up being 20 minutes but is that the reason why Regis hasn't been on your show yet ah so you got a little let go in your hell all seriousness breeches would be incredible I think okay let's make it happen it's a good question not strictly speaking a comedian but would he be considered um I don't think so no no of course I love Regis I could pick anyone at any time it's if I don't put a lot of thought into it I love Regis I've loved being on his show he is a very funny guy but I'm really still kind of in the pure comedy world of you know there's a lot of people I still want to get to you know like you know in John Stewart and Bill burr and Jimmy Fallon and people like that are you know what about like you tell me a bit a little bit about your time with Don Rickles because I look at Don Rickles and and I I don't mean to be saying something here that is inappropriate but when Don passes away and forgive me for invoking that but it's likely to me that's the end that's the end of something special something that you when I was a kid you could see every night on The Tonight Show you could see some version of that you can see Don Rickles you can see Dean Martin you can see all of these guys that represented a form of show business or a style of show business that I think is long gone yeah so I was really very excited to get him on the show because he is one of those guys from that era that we watch that made us get interested in the whole profession so and he's pretty amazing there's not many guys at that point that still have the juice that he has he is so fun to have on the show yeah good all right it's someone else yes ma'am right there I have two questions for you of the first this is it okay to take a photo with you later is that okay I'm gonna answer the second one first go ahead um instead of seven politicians do that I don't know thank you you like cars so if you thought back to the characters in Seinfeld which car do you think each one you know would be closest to or would represent them well Kramer had a car on the show we had an old Chevy Impala I think that backfired a lot and played a role in one of the shows I don't think George ever had a car Oh Jon Jon Voight LeBaron that's right thank you Bill he did yeah so that solves that I had a Saab that just leaves Elaine so three out of four didn't have cars so that question is answered and the other one is No oh sure until you can't injure the man three quarters of the way back in the plaid shirt so I live in a story we live in a story right by where you and Howard went yes a diner and I'm curious you know do you guys walk around and look at that you know supermarket and say we're gonna walk in there or do you well i delay the land before like how does that happen cuz that was a great as it is it really I think it started with Dave that I realized a second located get these people into another location besides the diner in the car Dave I got him to go into a hardware store which we were just in briefly but I really like that yes because it was kind of fun so I started looking for places in the area now you had no idea ahead of time now would ya know cuz well I think we had talked about hardware stores or something and then there was one yeah so that's where that started and so I just we find a diner that we like for whatever reason and then I go what else is around there that maybe I could take them into and the Howard Stern supermarket that sounded good thank you yes ma'am right there hi hi hi Sarah I thought the acura product break was very well done oh thank you and it didn't compromise the show in any way I'm just enjoying what the process is like with the advertiser um and how you decide what the integration will be well when we made the deal with a cure which is what enabled the show after I did the ten it was over I wasn't going to do any more because I rely couldn't actually get a company to step up and go okay we'll pay the amount of money it takes to do this and with some little profit to make it you know worth all the time and except for accurate so the guy there Mike a cavity who believed in me and believed in the show kind of took that risk with us and one of the deal points is we have to include our products in the and I said to him do you mind if I make it funny as part of the show and he said no and so those are product placements that are in movies and TV shows now but you're supposed to not notice them so we thought well why don't we make a fuss about why don't we make it really lame and you know this is a part of this I really really admired when you say where's our product placement car and yeah great this is you supposed to that very small I thought that was lovely oh thank you so so I just kind of think of in an episode with Jon Stewart the car tries to run us over the product place so and I kind of like that I like that because this is something that's kind of part of TV now and movies to a certain extent so we thought well let's do something with it instead of just having something feel worse that's a simple small idea but I think it's tremendous I think that's a great idea and if you don't mind let me ask you another question do you get initial viewers when the thing is first downloaded and then what is your recidivism if that's the correct word you're a prisoner but not the fact of the matter is from what you know because they the meetings about the analytics of the show are unbelievably fascinating if you like statistics and viewing habits and how the the public is changing what it does yes the thing about I said about people watching a work is true that's what they do with this show we have seasons and I was saying this to Tom Kennedy today in the meeting I said do you think the audience has any idea that we have seasons and that the show comes on and then goes away he said no they have no idea they just have heard about the thing it's on the internet and they watch it whenever they write like it does it does it and maybe you don't have this information maybe you don't care about this information does it seem to be name driven or is it just Jerry Seinfeld with the cars and the comedians in the car there are a few names that that bump it a little bit as you know on your show mostly they're watching the show yep that's another very encouraging thing a lot of people you know they don't know they watch the show and that made me think they liked the show right is it is it work to find this show like for me I'm 67 if I wanted to find this show can you spell comedians if you can spell it and type it comes right up comes right well I did I looked at a lot of episodes on my own on on you know on my own nobody helps you nobody help you but I'm just I'm just saying in the vast universe you asked galaxies yeah it's easy enough to find it a website address mm-hmm Thank You grandpa okay yeah yes all the way in the back well don't stand up I was just wearing uh for both you what was your first car or not the pickup first car you really loved that's the two great questions that I would like to know the answer to your first car and the first car that you really loved my first car was a oiler you go first mine was a 73 Fiat 128 and I was madly in love with it from because nobody in Long Island had a European cars and that I had you know front-wheel drive and a rack and pinion steering I thought I was the coolest thing it wasn't fast but I thought that was how old were you I was 20 it's pretty good choice for a kid well I was reading the magazines yeah you know yeah I wanted that my first car was just a rusted-out the Volkswagen bug Beetle and it had a crank and the thing with the roof would go back and it finally quit and the first car that I really loved was a BMW 320i and with that one the black yes and it it handled the way a car is supposed to it was pretty much neutral a little low on power and it's gone how about you what was your first car BMW 2002 correct in 74 yeah yeah that's my favorite the ones Jerry to buy him a car I can do it yes sir hi I'm Joe to that exact point you you could buy the car so could you afford you if you didn't love doing this so much would the show be able to pay your salary or your guests cuz the guests go on late night for promotion and so forth the guests go on for promotion like Sarah Jessica Parker and and the guests that you get are doing it as a favor yeah you most well know they they kind of see that I'm going to take good care of them in terms of I'm gonna make them look good you know no one's anything weird I don't I would never run so I want some people feel free but could they afford me me could someone pay well there is there is a guest payment there is guest payment yeah they've refused it but it's not a big money thing but I did feel like I wanted it to work as a business because that to me was in this medium to create a show that made money hasn't really been done you know in any kind of you know in a significant way that is you could get big people and so yeah that was part of the of the puzzle that I enjoyed trying to solve what could you tell us what a show production budget is it's in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand per episode so to make one mm-hmm compared to an episode of Seinfeld what would that have been a million a million a million for an episode of Seinfeld half a million at what point at what point in the run in the beginning I don't in the beginning maybe yeah in the end you couldn't get Jerry Stiller for a million at the end it was a very popular show well I'm uh yes ma'am right there leaning on your thing hello um my question was just about how do you decide who to engage with outside of the comedian because in that Bob Allen song yeah so I couldn't stop staring at that woman with the white hair yeah - so some episodes you have the comedian like Sarah engaged with somebody off the street do you encourage that or do you just order organically happens - yeah I try and I try and not use it like when Dave and I went to the coffee shop and what was a damn and whatever it was a lot of people obviously were excited and they all came out and we met a lot of folks afterwards and signed and took pictures and all that stuff but I want the show I want you to feel like you're just hanging out with us so I take out the celebrity reaction so that it has this kind of small accessible vibe of yeah I would like to hang out with those two guys for 20 minutes and and and but I don't want the show business stuff so no I generally will take that out right there sir when you said you met with all these digital gurus and they told you that five minutes was the maximum don't go past five minutes hmm did you think that they were wrong or you know they screw it I don't care okay screw it I don't care I do a lot of things like that all right and then yes sir you we just passed over you thank you and I'll just leave it at that in terms of monetization of your content is it is it license or structures so that it can be distributed internationally or it is an international we we were in Puerto Rico on a vacation and the the guy that comes down to the beach and gets a drink for you starts talking to me and he loves call Ryan when Mel Brooks and he loves the show and I thought how cool is this I got into the sky's pocket I mean that he's got my show in his pocket so yeah I mean it's all over the world it is that's the nature of the internet isn't it forget in some cases I mean it's not in France I mean they say it doesn't go everywhere but it goes it goes pretty wine why wouldn't it be infringed by those people we got a problem I don't even know that it might go to friend in some places it doesn't go okay so we're about to wrap it up I think we could all go on all evening but thank you so much for a very very special program

Channel: The Paley Center for Media

Views: 1,474,004

Rating: 4.7156281 out of 5

Keywords: Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Paley Center, Webseries

Id: wn0q5XJqu6E

Length: 65min 13sec (3913 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 11 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/burnsrado]

It's meant to be funny for the guys he's with, that when Dave brings out a cake that says "Good Luck Cindi", they will all look at Dave and ask, "Who the hell is Cindi?" The name Cindi has nothing to do with the joke. It's funny because of the randomness of it. Did Dave steal Cindi's cake? Does Cindi have Dave's cake? It's just a dumb goof to do to his friends.

[u/benofepmn]

It didn't have to be Cindi. It could've been any other name. The joke is that instead of putting something on the cake appropriate to the reunion / fishing trip, he put something appropriate for some other occasion like Cindi's graduation.

[u/kingmeh]

Time?

[u/Pitchwife]

One small addition to the explanations already provided - the name DOES make a difference, albeit a small one. "Cindi" is a grace note of a joke, just odd ball enough to get an extra head tilt while the person is sorting out what it all means. "Judy" would work. "Michael" isn't as good, neither is "Katharine".

It's definitely not the main point but the details matter in something like this.