Over the course of a comedy career of 36 years and counting, and nine seasons of a singularly influential sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld has built a vast repository of stand-up material but was never truly the master of his domain in the online sense.
That will change Friday with the debut of his website, , an online home for video of nearly every recorded comedy performance given by its creator and namesake, who at 57 is hardly in his autumn years but is contemplating posterity.
“I really thought, ‘Where’s my stuff going to be when I’m dead?’ ” Seinfeld said this week in an interview. “Is it just gone for all time? Who could sift through it? I thought, ‘I should filter this out and be the judge of what I thought was good.’ “
For the site, Seinfeld has opened his vault and come back with more than 1,000 clips of his stand-up act and comedic interviews. One segment dates to 1977, when Seinfeld, wearing glasses and wide lapels and speaking with a distinct Noo Yawk accent, made his television debut on “Celebrity Cabaret.” The other bits range from his first network-television appearance, on a 1981 broadcast of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” (an occasion whose 30th anniversary coincides with the site’s opening day), to the present. The New York Times
