Seinfeld Tells C/D about His Mother and father’ Outdated Clunkers and New ‘Comedians in Vehicles’ Ebook

Jerry Seinfeld’s dad and mom had horrible automobiles. Ugly, battered, unreliable automobiles.

“The entire drive of my life was to have higher automobiles than my dad and mom had,” Seinfeld informed Automobile and Driver. “I wished to get away from these automobiles.”

“These automobiles” included the likes of a 1960 Rambler, a 1962 Rambler, a Fifties Chevrolet Biscayne, and a 1963 Cadillac Eldorado, all of which had been “used and in horrible situation,” based on Seinfeld.

Even so, the famend comic acknowledged, his father had an affinity for automobiles. “He would purchase, you recognize, bizarre issues,” Seinfeld mentioned, “however he undoubtedly appreciated automobiles.” Seinfeld’s personal curiosity in automobiles is nicely documented, from his early materials about breakdowns and bumper automobiles to episodes of Seinfeld reminiscent of “The Bottle Deposit”, “The Cadillac,” and “The Dealership,” to call a number of. Arguably Seinfeld’s most blatant car-related venture, nonetheless, is his 2012–2019 sequence Comedians in Vehicles Getting Espresso.

Regardless of having no plans to supply extra episodes of the present, Seinfeld has now made parts of the 84 episodes of Comedians in Vehicles Getting Espresso out there in e book type. Appropriately titled The Comedians in Vehicles Getting Espresso Ebook (Simon & Schuster), the greater than 300-page e book options excerpts and pictures from Seinfeld’s quite a few interviews with varied comedians.

It additionally consists of an introduction by Seinfeld and an oral historical past of the present’s creation. For example, we study that Starbucks handed on the present. Car aficionados might discover the e book a bit wanting, although, because the emphasis of the e book stays on the “comedians” and never the “automobiles”—not in contrast to the present itself.

Admittedly Seinfeld warns readers of this, writing within the e book, “I am not going to speak an excessive amount of concerning the automobiles as a result of if you happen to’re not an automotive fanatic, automobiles are an unbelievably boring topic.” Ouch, our satisfaction.

That mentioned, there are a selection of images of the automobiles—and the comedians—featured all through the sequence on this $35 e book. They’re a reminder that Seinfeld’s drive for achievement paid off and allowed him to have the chance to get behind the wheel of—and, within the case of a number of the automobiles within the present, personal—higher automobiles than his dad and mom had.