As you know, Jerry Seinfeld recently received the Comedian Award. If you're wondering just how much awards, award ceremonies, and the pageantry that surrounds them means to Mr. Seinfeld, allow me to direct you to the hilarious clip below from the HBO special (via Best Week Ever). I about lost it after his "senators from Krypton remark."
I have to say that Seinfeld echoes my exact sentiments. I haven't sat down and watched the Oscars, Emmys or the Golden Globes in many, many years. I think the last award ceremony that I found even remotely interesting was the Pinewood Derby Awards in 1987, and that's only because I was a participant (and by the way, Boy Scout Troop 141: those weight restrictions are there for a reason. I lost against a car that was clearly over the legal limit).
In all honesty, I'm glad Seinfeld won the Comedian Award, because I really can't take any professional seriously unless they've been given some kind of engraved tchotchke for their efforts. That's why I currently have eleven cavities and am searching for a dentist who has won the Best Dentist Award. Otherwise, why bother?
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4-05-2007 @ 1:07PM
const said...
Jerry is still the king of observations.
His honesty about actors and awards is *probably* why all that talk about him hosting an awards show is just talk. Ain't never going to happen.
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4-05-2007 @ 2:27PM
edd said...
wow, he really sounds like Larry David. As always, one funny guy.
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4-05-2007 @ 2:55PM
Mark Rabinowitz said...
Wow. Funny, but he's kind of a dick. I wonder what he got paid to appear on the Oscars and make fun of documentaries....
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