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Jerry Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New YorkJerry Seinfeld is an American actor, writer and observational comedian from Massapequa, New York, a Long Island, New York hamlet. Seinfeld attended the Birch Lane Elementary School and Massapequa High School.

Straight from graduation at Queens College, Seinfeld tried out at an open mic night at New York's in 1976. Soon after, he was appearing in a Rodney Dangerfield HBO special.

Seinfeld had a small recurring role as "Frankie" on the sitcom in 1979, but was abruptly fired from the show.

A few years later, in May of 1981, Seinfeld made a highly successful appearance on Johnny Carson's and the Merv Griffin Show.

For a time in his life Seinfeld (who was raised as a Jew) was a Scientologist and as recently as 1993 he spoke positively of his brief stint as a Scientologist. In an interview he did for Playboy Magazine in October 1993 he said, "I learned a lot and I had a good experience with it." [1] Incidentally, he made fun of Scientology in an episode of Seinfeld ("The Parking Garage"). He is a vegan.

table and, by its fourth season, became one of the most popular and successful sitcoms on American television. The show left the air in 1998. As of 2005, the show was still receiving heavy airplay in syndication. The show also starred veteran Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as well as Michael Richards and Jason Alexander. On the show, Seinfeld played a caricature of himself.

In 1998, Seinfeld went on tour and recorded a comedy special entitled "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". An album of the same name was also released that year, and it featured samples of his stand-up performance.

After his sitcom went off the air, Seinfeld returned to stand-up comedy. The process of developing and performing new material at clubs around the world was chronicled in a 2002 documentary, , directed by Christian Charles. His stand-up routine is highly acclaimed and Jerry was ranked #12 in the Comedy Central 100 Greatest Standups of All Time. Jerry Seinfeld has written a few books, mostly archives of past routines.

Seinfeld also appeared in two 'webisode'[2] promoting American Express Credit Cards in which he appeared together with an animated rendering of Superman, voiced by Patrick Warburton (who had portrayed David Puddy on . Released in 1993, the book went onto become a number one New York Times bestseller. The book, written at the of his television show, deals with Seinfeld's musings on trivial events such as shushing in a movie theater.

Seinfeld also wrote a children's book titled (2002). The book was illustrated by James Bennett.

Seinfeld also wrote the forewards to Ted L. Nancy's . Both authors are rumored to be pseudonyms for Seinfeld or a friend of his. Neither Nancy or Broth have been seen publicly, although Seinfeld is heavily involved in pitching their books for television. In promoting Broth's book, Seinfeld hosted a toast in the author's honor, although Broth did not arrive to the event. [[3]].

Jerry Seinfeld once made a crude joke about his heritage that he only used once as a bit on stage at The Improv in New York on July 18, 1988. He was finishing a set about his childhood and he said that since he mother was Welsch and his father was Hungarian that he was "well hung." The punch line bombed and he has yet to use it again. He was going to try and use this material in "The Nose Job" episode that orginally aired November 20, 1991. Instead of including this bit in dialogue, there was a scene made where Jerry's brain is playing chess versus Jerry's penis. After the scene was taken Jerry went off camera and said "He didn't feel as though he was big enough to play the part."

His most famous pre-marriage dalliance was with Shoshanna Lonstein, who was still in secondary school when they first met. He began dating Jessica Sklar after they met at the Reebok Sports Club in 1998, even though she had just married Eric Nederlander, a scion of the Broadway theater-owning family. At one point, Nederlander planned to sue Seinfeld for "alienation of affection" for contributing to the demise of his marriage. Seinfeld and Sklar married on December 25, 1999. They have three children: daughter Sascha (born November 7, 2000), son Julian Kal (born March 1, 2003) and son Shepherd Kellen (born August 22, 2005).

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