Jerry Before Seinfeld

2017

Action / Comedy

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 6327 6.3K

stand-up comedy

Plot summary

Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.

Director

Michael Bonfiglio Photo
Michael Bonfiglio

Top cast

Ed Koch Photo
Ed Koch as Self
Jerry Seinfeld Photo
Jerry Seinfeld as Self
Jay Leno Photo
Jay Leno as Self
Johnny Carson Photo
Johnny Carson as Self - Tonight Show Host
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566.75 MB
1280*672
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 1 min
Seeds 2
1.14 GB
1920*1008
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   de   es   fr   nl  
23.976 fps
1 hr 1 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by NikkoFranco 8 / 10

Pre-Jerry

People who are expecting new material will be disappointed. The title says it all. These are glimpses or insights into a part of Jerry before he became THE SEINFELD. It is shown in fragments of him on stage as well providing us reels of him as a child, how his family is, just a normal kid. Perhaps it will be easier for the new viewer not to take things too literally and get to know him a bit. Which is the purpose of this docuspecial anyways. It is interesting to take into account that Jerry the normal kid became such a megacomedian if say you want to compare him to other superstar comedians who came from the slums, poverty and the likes. His normalcy gave him an edge, clean cut you may say but a funny genius nonetheless.
Reviewed by siderite 7 / 10

A one hour comedy show with the same charm, but with no new material

I am a big fan of the Seinfeld show and of Jerry's sense of humor. When I saw that he did a new thing for 2017 I absolutely had to see it. But it was nothing new. Just him talking about his childhood and his life in New York for a few scenes, and the rest of this one hour show he just does stand up. Which was fine, only I knew about 90% of the material just by watching the Seinfeld TV show.And then there is the voice thing. I don't know what happened to him, but at some time he would just raise his voice a little bit and it would come out all shrill and broken. In this show he managed to keep it under control, but not all the time.Bottom line: I always enjoy Seinfeld, but I expected some more depth in something that was about his personal life and was marketed as "before Seinfeld". I understand he took all the good bits and put them in the TV show and he couldn't have made another show just with the bad material, but still, I wanted to see him write again, not just reminisce about the good jokes he thought of when he was a kid. Maybe next time.
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