Seinfeld makes Tel Aviv laugh
- 8 years ago
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld on Saturday night took the stage at a Tel Aviv basketball arena as he kicked off a short comedy tour in Israel, his first ever in the Jewish state.
Seinfeld made few direct references to Israel in his hour-long comedy set, noted the newspaper, other than noting that the country's name "has a lot of vowels" and that Israelis have two answers to any question: "no problem" or "that's impossible".
He also paid a great deal of attention to a theme that many Israelis can relate to, noted Haaretz , that being the modern obsession with electronic devices.
He later took questions from the audience and was asked to say some phrases in Hebrew, which he politely refused to do by explaining that he learned Hebrew "for my Bar Mitzvah and that was enough."
Seinfeld made few direct references to Israel in his hour-long comedy set, noted the newspaper, other than noting that the country's name "has a lot of vowels" and that Israelis have two answers to any question: "no problem" or "that's impossible".
He also paid a great deal of attention to a theme that many Israelis can relate to, noted Haaretz , that being the modern obsession with electronic devices.
He later took questions from the audience and was asked to say some phrases in Hebrew, which he politely refused to do by explaining that he learned Hebrew "for my Bar Mitzvah and that was enough."