Jerry Seinfeld
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Jerry Seinfeld
Immigrant/not born a US citizen
History project
Jerry Seinfeld was born in April 29th 1954 in Brooklyn New York. He grew up on Long Island. Jerry Seinfeld was already obsessed with comedy by the time he was eight years old. After college, he went from local New York comedy clubs to the national circuit, performing about 300 dates a year, every year, during the 1970s and the 1980s. He started his first big break as comedy for a 5 minute appearance on The Tonight Show. Audiences loved his humor, which was based on frank observations of life and sexual humor.
In 1988, Seinfeld was voted Funniest Male Stand Up comedy at the American Comedy Awards. After NBC approached him about doing a television show, he and his friend (Larry David) came up with the shows concept while they went shopping at a Korean grocery and made jokes about the produce. They decided that sort of incident was what the show would be about-wry and absurd observations about everyday life. So Seinfeld was born...