Jerry Seinfeld...
Birth name Jerome Allen Seinfeld
Born April 29, 1954 (1954-04-29) (age 54)Massapequa, New York, U.S.Medium Television, stand-up, filmNationality AmericanYears active 1980 – present
Genres Observational comedy, satire, character comedy, blue comedySubject(s) Human behavior, American culture, gender, homophobiaInfluences Larry Davi SupermanGeorge CarlinRichard PryorLenny BruceBillCosbyAbbott and CostelloInfluenced Carol LeiferSpouse Jessica Seinfeld(1999-present),3 children
Notable works and roles Jerry Seinfeld on Seinfeld Birth name Jerome Allen Seinfeld
Born April 29, 1954 (1954-04-29) (age 54)Massapequa, New York, U.S.Medium Television, stand-up, filmNationality AmericanYears active 1980 – present
Genres Observational comedy, satire, character comedy, blue comedySubject(s) Human behavior, American culture, gender, homophobiaInfluences Larry Davi SupermanGeorge CarlinRichard PryorLenny BruceBillCosbyAbbott and CostelloInfluenced Carol LeiferSpouse Jessica Seinfeld(1999-present),3 children
Personal life:
When he was in his late thirties, Seinfeld began a romantic relationship with then-seventeen year old high school student Shoshanna Lonstein. After, for a short period of time he dated Carol Leifer, who was the model for Elaine's character on Seinfeld. A while later, after meeting Jessica Sklar at the Reebok Sports Club, he began dating her. Sklar, a public relations executive for Tommy Hilfiger, had just returned from a three-week honeymoon in Italy with Eric Nederlander, a theatrical producer and scion of a theater-owning family. Sklar divorced Nederlander and married Seinfeld on December 25, 1999.[13] Comedian George Wallace was the best man at the wedding. After the nuptials, Seinfeld bought Billy Joel's Amagansett house for $32 million in March 2000.
Seinfeld and his wife have three children, one daughter and two sons. Daughter Sascha was born on November 7, 2000 in New York City,[14] son Julian Kal on March 1, 2003 in New York City,[15] and Shepherd Kellen was born on August 22, 2005 at New York's Cornell Medical Center.[16][17] His son Julian's middle name is Kal, which is the first name of Seinfeld's father. Kal is also the first name of Seinfeld's hero Kal-El (Superman). Seinfeld's best friend is fellow comedian Larry Miller.
In 2000, Jessica Seinfeld launched Baby Buggy, a charity that provides clothing and gear for the infants and young children of poor, abused, addicted, and homeless women. She is the author of the best-seller Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, released by HarperCollins in October 2007.[18] As was reported in The New York Times, the recipes and concepts presented in Deceptively Delicious bore striking similarities to some of those in another cookbook, The Sneaky Chef, by Missy Chase Lapine published by Running Press in April 2007.
Seinfeld is recorded as having made several political contributions, including George W. Bush's presidential campaign in 2000 and subsequently to four Democratic primary candidates in 2000 and 2004.
Seinfeld periodically calls Steve Somers' show on WFAN-AM, a sports talk radio station, as "Jerry from Queens."
On March 29, 2008, Seinfeld was driving in East Hampton, New York when the brakes on his 1967 Fiat 500 failed. After trying to stop the car using the emergency brake, which also failed, he swerved to keep the car from entering an intersection with a highway and ended up rolling the car onto its side, stopping yards from the highway. The wreck was attributed to mechanical failure. Seinfeld did not require medical attention and returned to his East Hampton home. Colin Quinn reported on The Opie and Anthony Show that he helped push one of Jerry's many cars down the road during a separate incident accident. He told the hosts he was tired from giving Seinfeld's car "the old jump-start." Fellow funnyman Robert Kelly chimed in, "Yeah, he had Colin push one of his 38 Porsches down a side street."
Seinfeld studied scientology at one point in the 1970s. He was introduced to scientology by his high school auto mechanics teacher and took a couple of courses. He says scientology taught him important things about communication. He hasn't been involved with scientology since the late 1970s.
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