Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
TUBE!
Available on Crackle
and the internet.
I used to love the show "Dinner For Five." Hosted by Jon Favreau, he and four eclectic guests would converge on some Hollywood restaurant after hours under the pretense of discussing independent films. In reality they just all enjoyed a great meal and told stories about weird experiences on movie sets and other show biz stories. I loved it. (It's available to stream on Netflix). To sort of hone this concept to a sharper point, there comes "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."
This show, hosted by the brilliant Jerry Seinfeld, has Jerry in a different vintage wonderful car every episode, and he picks up a different comedian every episode, and they drive around awhile and then they go get coffee and sometimes breakfast. All the while they are cracking each other up, and we as the audience, also crack up.
There was the episode of Jerry in the vintage Corvette picking up Jimmy Fallon, and after the meal the car battery went dead and it took 45 minutes to get it running again all the while with fans around with the video phones. There was the episode with Patton Oswalt who was sooo excited to ride in the vintage DeLoren, only to get about 20 feet before it broke down. But at least they had coffee and scones.
My favorite episodes so far were the ones with Robert Klein, Sarah Jessica Parker (I know, right?), and Jay Leno. The one with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks was priceless. As were the episodes with David Letterman, and Don Rickles. There isn't clinker in the bunch. Well, there was the episode with Miranda of Internet fame. And the french comedian. Kinda didn't feel it.
This is a simple concept and I'm sure Seinfeld's agent is having sleepless nights about this low budget, low payday thing, but this is fun stuff. I love this show, project, internet thing....whatever it is. I think it's a break-through idea and deserves serious recognition.
Please please please see some of this if you can. I get it through Crackle. (My wife bought me Roku for Valentine's Day and now Roku is my life.) Crackle isn't just about "Sports Jeopardy" by the way. Also there is an episode where the President of Crackle Dick Corcaran (played by Michael Richards) calls Jerry in his office with an idea to kill Snap and Pop.
I like this sort of format, and I do recommend this simple, pleasurable, fun, relaxing show.
GRADE: A-
