The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

by Jerry Seinfeld Narrated by Jerry Seinfeld, Full Cast

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

While Seinfeld’s 2020 book Is This Anything? was his greatest hits of stand-up routines, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book is exactly that. Comedians, cars, and coffee! But wait, there’s more! We love that Seinfeld is funny. What we love even more is HIS love of comedy. The Netflix show and this book are Seinfeld’s inner fanboy’s deep dive into the history of funny.

A celebration of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, featuring some of comedy's most iconic voices in excerpts from their appearances on Jerry Seinfeld's groundbreaking streaming series!

Featuring appearances by: Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Colleen Ballinger, Todd Barry, Lewis Black, Neal Brennan, Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks, Bill Burr, Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Dave Chappelle, Margaret Cho, Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Larry David, Ellen DeGeneres, Bob Einstein, Gad Elmaleh, Bridget Everett, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jamie Foxx, Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifianakis, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Hart, Steve Harvey, Joel Hodgson, Mario Joyner, Robert Klein, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jerry Lewis, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Norm MacDonald, Kathleen Madigan, Bill Maher, Sebastian Maniscalco, Barry Marder, Steve Martin, Chuck Martin, Kate McKinnon, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, Hasan Minhaj, Tracy Morgan, John Mulaney, Eddie Murphy, Trevor Noah, Barack Obama, John Oliver, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Colin Quinn, Brian Regan, Carl Reiner, Michael Richards, Don Rickles, Chris Rock, Seth Rogen, Amy Schumer, Garry Shandling , Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, J.B. Smoove, Howard Stern, Jon Stewart, Melissa Villaseñor, George Wallace, Christoph Waltz, Ali Wentworth, and Kristen Wiig.

Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove around in classic cars, grabbing coffee and chatting with the funniest people alive. The result was not only a hilarious collection of casual yet intimate conversations but arguably the most important historical archive about the art of comedy ever amassed.

Now that archive is preserved in the form of a carefully curated audiobook collection of excerpts from the show. Seinfeld has handpicked the show's keenest insights and funniest exchanges. Also included is a fascinating oral history that details how this scrappy creative experiment landed unprecedented access to the White House, earned multiple Emmy nominations, and helped lead the streaming revolution.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

12/16/2022

Comedian Seinfeld's (Is This Anything?) oversized photobook is a valentine to his 11-season TV series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–19) and to the comedians he admired whom he interviewed on the show. The book opens with a fascinating oral history of the series' origin, including that Starbucks and Netflix both passed on sponsoring the show. Packed with color images, the book assembles back-and-forth banter between Seinfeld and other comedians in chapters devoted to topics like "Growing Up," "Relationships," "TV & Movies," "Music," "Money," "Other Comedians," "Sports," and more. It includes interviews with a roster of comedians who range from the veteran (Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles) to the contemporary (Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Howard Stern, Margaret Cho, David Letterman, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock). The conversations are hilarious, but the book is also rich with autobiographical tales of seeking a life on stage. This is not comedians trading jokes; they're having real conversations filled with witty and astute observations. VERDICT Seinfeld collects funny and introspective conversations with several generations of world-class comedians. Ideal for those interested in stand-up comedy orclever observations about the world.—Kevin Howell

Kirkus Reviews

2022-10-05
The renowned comic puts his online talk show series between covers.

Want to get a cup of coffee? The operative verb, insists Seinfeld, is get, an active word that, he writes, “is really a way of saying, ‘I like you enough to do absolutely nothing with.’ No higher compliment, to my way of thinking.” The conceit is to get coffee, and maybe a nice nosh, in a variety of unique cars from every era. Seinfeld, like frequent interlocutor Jay Leno, is a die-hard car guy, affording a topic of conversation that is of interest only to car guys (and used sparingly here). Though there are some throwaway bits, Seinfeld and the dozens of comedians here have more substantive things to say. There’s a lot about comedy, naturally. David Letterman muses about watching Richard Pryor do a bit about having sex with a dog, concluding, “Well, okay. There are many facets of genius.” Judd Apatow remembers that his near-broke mother bought a Mercedes, and when he asked her why not a Camry, she replied, “Because I’m not an animal.” Money is a preoccupation, but Apatow wisely adds in another conversation, “We’re not in the money business. We’re in the fun business.” Some comics muse on race, some on religion, some on what might have been—e.g., when Don Rickles reckons that he might have made “a damn good psychiatrist.” Perhaps surprisingly, the deepest comments come from the late Garry Shandling—unfortunately, too many of Seinfeld’s interviewees are no longer with us—who told Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh a side-splitting joke about the Buddha and then concludes of comedy, “It doesn’t have any value beyond you expressing yourself spiritually, in a very soulful, spiritual way. It’s why you’re on the planet.” The book features vivid color photos, and the interviewee list is a comedy lover’s dream.

An amiable, largely amusing ramble down the back roads of the comedian’s art.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175644273
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	11/22/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	757,880

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