Concert preview
Jerry Seinfeld
7:30 p.m. Friday, $45-$75, sold out. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta, 404-881-2100, www.foxtheatre.org.
Jerry Seinfeld may be most famous for a “show about nothing.”
Now, relatively speaking, he is so wealthy from that show, “Seinfeld,” that he could effectively do nothing and live a comfortable life.
In terms of actual creative output, he’s busier than Chris Tucker, not nearly as busy as, say, fellow 1990s sitcom icons Roseanne Barr and Tim Allen.
Since “Seinfeld” ended in 1998, the comic has produced a 2007 animated film (“Bee Movie”), a reality series that lasted 19 episodes until last year (“The Marriage Ref”) and a free, Web-only venture, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
He was a stand-up comic before “Seinfeld,” and he has continued to do tour dates since. On Friday, he’ll be headlining a single sold-out show at the Fox Theatre, his first comedic outing in Atlanta in five years.
The 58-year-old Seinfeld — who is raising three kids with his wife, Jessica — no longer has to emulate the peripatetic life of a Punchline headline comic who hosts seven shows in a weekend. Rather, he might do seven shows in an entire month, his scheduled output this month.
“Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” which is literally comics in classic cars and coffee shops gabbing with Seinfeld, was an ad-free series for its first run of 10 episodes last year. It featured Seinfeld’s buddies, including Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais, “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David and Michael Richards, the actor who played Seinfeld’s neighbor Kramer on the show for nine seasons.
It did so well, Seinfeld and Sony Productions are bringing it back for 24 more episodes. “This next go-round we’re going to have to figure out some sort of revenue stream, so it makes more sense,” Seinfeld told The New York Times in January.
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