Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a new comedy special, “23 Hours to Kill,” that is available on Netflix and the star of arguably the funniest sitcom ever hasn’t lost anything off his fastball when it comes to a scathing bit.
As in the NBC hit show Seinfeld, the theme of Jerry’s act is nothing and everything, and he’s on a rant about how “avoidance is the male domestic instinct.” That’s when he shifts his focus to golf. We’ll allow Seinfeld to take it from here:
“Golf, the ultimate avoidance activity, a game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrational, so time-consuming, golf, could only possibly stand for Get-Out-Leave-Family,” he begins.
“And I have a lot of friends who play it and they love it. Jerry, you would love it. It’s a very challenging game.
“Yes, I’m sure that it is. It’s also a challenging to throw a Tic-Tac 100 yards into a shoe box.”
Let’s pause for laughter. That’s actually pretty funny.
Now where were we? “In the fantasy mind of the golfing father, the family will come running out to hear the exciting stories of his golfing adventures. In reality, no one is even aware that he has left or returned. From 8 1/2 hours of idiotic hacking through sand and weeds while driving drunk in a clown car through a fake park,” Seinfeld said. “Nonetheless, the father remains proud, dressing in bizarre outfits around the house on the weekend.”
And then he was off to his next topic — getting ripped off at the movie theater. Here’s the thing I discovered while searching YouTube for a video clip: he pretty much recycled his own joke from 2016.
That doesn’t make it any less funny. And you’ve heard it here first: Seinfeld’s Netflix special is worth an hour of your time. The golf bit, however, doesn’t hold a candle to the classic Robin Williams’s rip-roaring take on golf (Note: language is NSFW).