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“Seinfeld is leaving hilarious restaurant reviews
on Google Maps of the places he's visited during
his quirky Netflix interview series.”
– CNet
Jerry Seinfeld’s

IRREVERENT, FEEL-GOOD, WITTY SECOND ACT

omedians in Cars Getting Coffee began as an online series Each classic car, like each conversation, is matched to the guest. The blue
on Crackle and is now streamed on Netflix, where its ’76 Lamborghini Countach for Jim Carey, the Mercedes 280 SL for Alec
tenth season recently aired. Seinfeld’s roving talk show Baldwin. With Stephen Colbert he riffs about masculinity and with Ali
C combines coffee, laughs and vintage cars into quirky, Wentworth he banters on about the art of winning a fight. The shows are
caffeine-fueled adventures with the sharpest minds in comedy. The filmed at pre-selected restaurants.
success of the show is partly due to its simple format: two comics in a
car conversing over coffee. Seinfeld ran for 15 years, starting in 1989. The Emmy-nominated
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee premiered in 2012 and is still going
Seinfeld has taken Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Judd Apatow, Larry David, strong. The series, despite its seeming irreverence, portrays the comedic
Tina Fey and Ellen DeGeneres, among others, on coffee dates in classic maestro’s talent as he shares the mobile stage with his humorist peers, in
cars. He even drove Barack Obama around the White House. a feel-good, witty second act.

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