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Seinfeld on Seattle

While promoting his “Bee Movie,” Jerry Seinfeld makes the following curious statement in the Seattle P-I:

Seattle is my favorite city. It’s the first place anyone ever liked me. When I played the Comedy Underground in 1983 I sold out a house for the very first time. That was really the beginning of everything for me. I feel like I owe my whole career to Seattle.

Really? We seem to recall Seinfeld playing to packed houses at the Comedy Works in ’82. Perhaps we’re a little fuzzy on the details. Perhaps Seinfeld didn’t feel as though the Philly crowds were coming to see him specifically. (That club was frequently sold out back then, regardless of who was performing there.)