Milling About Flashback with Jerry Seinfeld

Robin Milling: Tell me about when you first realized that this is happening for me and I’m on my way.

Jerry Seinfeld: I think just now. Just this week, I started thinking that this is really happening. I got a great review in TV Guide. Did you see it?

RM: No, not yet.

JS: I just got this rave review for the show in TV Guide and I thought, “Wow, this is really happening.” At first you just think of it as a lark, and then it becomes just something that you do, and then you stop thinking about it. I kinda forgot that like, just, if I get really good at this or I become really popular I’ll be like some kind of a star or something. I kinda really forgot about that. For years, literally.

It was just I worked on my jokes, I go do my shows, I never think about catching on. Its just not in my mind. I’m too busy working on my stuff, you know? Cause that’s what I really like about it. I don’t really care about the attention or the fame/notoriety. Those things don’t really excite me, to tell you the truth.

What excites me is working on jokes and figuring out, you know, how to make this funny, and how to do that so that people will like it, you know. I don’t think of it as a vehicle to get me somewhere. Like to get a movie, or get a TV series. Those things don’t really seem that exciting to me. What excites me is to get a joke to work that no-one’s ever heard before — that’s never been a joke — a laugh that no-one’s ever laughed at this subject before. That excites me.

Milling About Flashback with Jerry Seinfeld / by Robin Milling / 1987