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(171,036 posts) Mon Dec 21, 2015, 07:54 PM Dec 2015

Jerry Seinfeld’s next ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ guest? President Obama.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/12/21/jerry-seinfelds-next-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee-guest-president-obama/?tid=sm_fb

Jerry Seinfeld’s next ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ guest? President Obama.
By Dan Zak
December 21 at 3:00 PM

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President Obama with Jerry Seinfeld during their taping of an episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” at the White House Dec. 7.

President Obama will be a guest on Jerry Seinfeld’s Web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” which usually features the TV star making wisecracks in vintage automobiles with other comic performers. Seinfeld filmed the episode with Obama on the afternoon of Dec. 7, about 16 hours after the president delivered his prime-time television address on terrorism. Seinfeld and Obama took turns driving a 1963 Corvette Stingray on the circular road on the South Lawn of the White House grounds, then chatted casually over coffee about the mundane aspects of a president’s life.

“He’s done some really good work as a monologist at those correspondents dinners — that’s how he qualifies to be on the show,” Seinfeld told The Washington Post, referring to the annual black-tie gathering of White House reporters.

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“It was out-of-body for me,” Seinfeld says by phone afterward. “I’m not a guy who likes honor. In fact, I hate any kind of honoring. That I get to be a comedian — that’s the honor. But this was an honor: that {Obama} was okay with me, that he trusted me to do some comedy with him in the real White House.”