I'm Telling You for the Last Time
On Jerry Seinfeld's debut CD, he already sounds sick of his material. Of course, the point of the performance that it captures--the HBO specialI'm Telling You for the Last Time--was to perform the routine one last time and then retire it forever. This recording was taped just a couple of months afterSeinfeldwent off the air, and the crowd sounds like it's jonesing for a fix--they laugh at everything, even Seinfeld's setup lines ("So what's with the cabdrivers and the BO?"). Still, Seinfeld's humor--that now-familiar observation from a satisfyingly elitist point of view--delivers. But after all the late-night talk-show appearances, the bookSeinlanguage, and nine years of the series, was there really any question?--Randy Silver