'Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and everything else on Netflix's stand-up special
Veteran comedian Jerry Seinfeld is back on the stage with his first collection of new standup material in over 20 years. '23 Hours to Kill' is Seinfeld's second stand-up special in a two-part deal that he signed with Netflix in 2017.
The first, 'Jerry Before Seinfeld', is a Netflix original film that follows Seinfeld as he returns for a standup routine at the New York City comedy club, Comic Strip Live, where he started his career.
'23 Hours to Kill' was recorded during a recent performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York and was part of the Seinfeld co-creator and star's residency at the venue, the last few shows of which were curtailed by coronavirus last month.
The title '23 Hours to Kill' is a reference to a line often repeated by the 'Bee Movie' creator and star that stand-ups spend one hour a day on stage and the rest of the day waiting for that moment.
Release date
'Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill' will be available to stream on Netflix on May 5.
Plot
The trailer for the special shows that it is James Bond-themed and opens with a shot of the New York City skyline before showing Seinfeld strapped to a table. An eyepatch-wearing villain then reveals himself and threatens the comedian with a laser. Seinfeld then notes that they are in a comedy club dressing room and an employee comes into the room to tell him that his show begins in five minutes.
Seinfeld then breaks free and takes to the stage. We see a snippet of the new material that will come in the special. "Who designed the bathroom stall with the under-display viewing window?" he asks the audience during his set. "So we can all see the lifeless collapsed pant legs and tragic little shoe fronts that are just barely poking out from underneath the impotent belt, lying helpless? How much more money is it to bring this wall down another foot?"
After his set, Seinfeld is then shown enjoying food backstage with the villain when the latter comments that "being a supervillain is not that much money, it's not comedy special-money". To which Seinfeld suggests, "You gotta have the material. How about something about these super villains always wanting to take over the world, but they build these death machines that never work?"
Netflix added of the special, “Jerry Seinfeld takes the stage in New York and tackles talking vs. texting, bad buffets vs. so-called ‘great’ restaurants and the magic of Pop-Tarts.”
Cast
Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian, actor, writer, producer and director. He is known for playing a semi-fictionalized version of himself in the sitcom 'Seinfeld', which he created and wrote with Larry David. In 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld the "12th Greatest Stand-up Comedian of All Time".
Director
Joe DeMaio
'Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill' was directed by Joe DeMaio. DeMaio is a director and producer known for directing 'Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest', 'Comedy Knockout' and 'Lip Sync Battle'.
Trailer
“All things we do to convince ourselves our lives don’t suck. And I know that because I know everyone’s life sucks. Your life sucks, my life sucks too,” Seinfeld says in the new trailer of his comedy special that dropped on Thursday, April 30. “Perhaps not quite as much… Never feel bad that your life sucks. The greatest lesson you can learn in life: Sucks and great are pretty close.”
The one-and-a-half-minute long trailer examines this philosophy. “The hot dog is cold. The bun is not toasted,” he says. “The vendor is an ex-con in a work-release program. You love that hot dog every time. Does it suck? Yes. Is it great? Yes. That's how close they are.”
The stand-up special looks and feels classic Seinfeld -- the same kind of existential woes, the same mannerisms, but of course, with new material. If it’s anything to go by, it is going to be spectacular!
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