I'm Telling You for the Last Time

Jerry Seinfeld | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 22, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B00000AFGO
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,717 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #1 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Contemporary Comedy
  • #11 in Music > Miscellaneous > Radio Shows
  • #13 in Music > Miscellaneous > Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for the Seinfeld fan!, March 29, 2000

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Michelle Lee (Bloomfield, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (Audio CD)

Being a huge lover of Jerry Seinfeld and his TV antics, I was anxious to get a hold of this recorded live stand-up performance. After listening to it just once, I realized how well worth the purchase it was.

True, if you watched the show regularly, you'll soon notice that many of the topics he covers in the CD are identical to the standup bits featured at the beginning of various "Seinfeld" episodes. However, that doesn't make this performance any less funny. In this, you'll hear the "nothing-centered" witticisms of everyday life delivered in a way only Jerry could do well.

So, if you're sitting and working or doing absolutely nothing, the radio is blaring the usual top 40 standards, and you have a yen to listen to something different, let Jerry personally introduce you to his first love...stand up comedy. You won't regret it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Non-stop laughs, laughs, laughs from a master, September 2, 2002

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Catherine S. Vodrey (East Liverpool, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (Audio CD)

Jerry Seinfeld's "I'm Telling You for the Last Time" is typical Seinfeld stuff--that is to say, of course, EXCELLENT SEINFELD STUFF. He hits topics like cab drivers, sky diving ("You get up that high, I think that helmet is wearing YOU for protection"), drugstores, bathrooms, and so on. It's astonishing to us non-comedians that these seemingly hum-drum topics can be mined for such riches, but Seinfeld does the impossible and makes them each a comic gem that will have you red-faced and absolutely helpless with laughter.

His take on Halloween may be one of the funniest things I've ever heard (On hearing about Halloween for the first time as a kid, Seinfeld says his reaction was, "You mean everyone we KNOW is just GIVING AWAY CANDY? What's WRONG with them?"). He segues from this into the meanings of "up" and "down" for kids and adults: "When you're little, life is up. Wait up, hold up, shut up! Mom, I'll clean up! Lemme stay up! Parents, of course, are just the opposite. Just calm down! Slow down! Come down here, sit down, put that down! Keep it down in there!"

This album deserves your undivided attention--to really enjoy it, my husband and I recently listened to it on a long drive when we were going on vacation and we both were nearly in tears from laughing so hard. Great stuff!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe some people don't like this stuff!, November 20, 2006

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Alex Nennig "al27" (Oshkosh, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (Audio CD)

Some of the past reveiwers complained about a few things about this album, usually one of the following:

1. The material isn't new.

2. The material is unoriginal.

3. The material isn't "edgy" enough.

So, here are my rebuttals to these complaints, in hopes of straigtening a few things out (sarcasm intended, since I'm sure they really don't care):

1. Of course it isn't new material, its called "I'm telling you for the LAST time." Its really more of a greatest hits performance since Jerry Seinfeld never released an album. I agree it would have been cool to have some of his earlier performances on an album, but we don't have the luxury, and I don't know about you, but I'd perfer to have my Seinfeld stand up actually documented on a disc as opposed to the previous option, one minute chunks before and after an episode of his sitcom.

2. There was a time when this actually was quite original. You see, Jerry Seinfeld got incredibly famous, and so many up and coming comedians started ripping him off that his observational comedic stylings became very common (a point beautifully illustrated in the SNL game show parody "Stand Up and Win" hosted by Jerry Seinfeld himself). If the material and style sounds unoriginal, keep in mind, Seinfeld pretty much did it first.

3. Why should comedy have to be "edgy" to be good? Jerry Seinfeld was funny without being dirty or obscene (the worst you hear in this CD is a handfull of "G-d D-mns"). I personally think that the R rated material is a crutch, if you can't be funny without being dirty, then you're not really that good in the first place.

So there you have it, my takes on the complaints against Seinfelds only album. It's some good stuff really, there's a reason why people ripped off his act, and that reason is because he was a really funny, really sucessful comedian.