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Jerry Seinfeld: I wasn’t comfortable with ‘Seinfeld’ success

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If you’ve noticed that, for the most part, Jerry Seinfeld seems to have disappeared from public view since the end of his all-time great sitcom, you’re right. And it’s not because he couldn’t repeat his success; he just didn’t feel comfortable with it in the first place.

He was the king of TV comedy, with millions repeating his witty one liners and weekly-coined catchphrases, but as a trained standup comedian, Seinfeld was more used to self-loathing than congratulations. As he tells Showtime’s new series, “Inside Comedy,” being “a thing” wasn’t exactly his thing.

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