meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jerry Seinfeld

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Movies, Interview, Music, Tv, Pop Culture, Broadway, Politics, Tv & Film, Technology

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s been more than 20 years since “Seinfeld” left the air as the #1 show on television. Since then, Jerry Seinfeld has continued the career of a stand-up comedian that started when he was just a 20-year-old from Long Island. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist chats with the comedy legend about that lengthy career, why he still loves the craft of writing jokes, and his latest residency at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.4

Thank you for bearing with my Raspi voice at the end of a long week.

0:09.8

On this week's episode, what else can I say except two words?

0:15.2

Jerry Seinfeld.

0:17.3

We met up with Jerry at the Beacon Theatre in New York City where he's getting ready

0:20.6

to start in January with a residency where he'll do stand-up shows two a night, a couple

0:26.2

times a month through June.

0:27.8

You can get tickets online now.

0:30.4

He doesn't do a ton of interviews so we were so psyched to get the chance to sit with

0:33.8

him for a while.

0:34.9

We talked about comedy, big picture, his start in comedy, comedy in general, Kevin Hart

0:39.6

and the Oscars.

0:41.4

Seinfeld, how it almost didn't happen, how the NBC research team said this is not going

0:45.4

to work and how he got over that moment and became Jerry Seinfeld.

0:49.3

And by the way, he gets into what his life might have looked like if Seinfeld had been

0:54.1

killed in its infancy.

0:56.4

A great conversation with Jerry Seinfeld right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

1:01.8

Thanks for doing this, Jerry.

1:02.8

My pleasure.

1:03.8

My pleasure.

1:04.8

So this place has kind of become your home for stand-up in New York City.

1:08.2

You've done the residency before coming back to do it again.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.