Is this Anything?

The first book in twenty-five years from ';one of our great comic minds' (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld's best work across five decades in comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub ';Catch a Rising Star' as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. ';Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,' Seinfeld writes. ';So I have everything I thought was worth saving from forty-five years of hacking away at this for all I was worth.'

For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by decade. In this ';trove of laugh-out-loud one-liners' (Associated Press), you will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.