Seinfeld

Over spring break, I saw Jerry Seinfeld at the Palace Theatre. He is absolutely incredible and still on top of his game.

But, a big portion of his stand-up routine was focused on technology. He posed the question:
Don't we all just want to communicate?

His comment was focused on technology, but then he added, "What else am I doing up here on this stage talking to you people?"

Seinfeld further went into jokes regarding our increased communication as of late. I found this amusing, especially because Seinfeld (at the height of his career) was around the mid-nineties. Now, his bits are progressing with the shift of technology.

Seinfeld included jokes on cell phones: "Do we still really need to have that operated woman on the line saying 'Leave your name and number after the tone. Aren't we past that yet? Are people really saying 'Hello, this is a woman, goodbye.'"

He also included a joke on emails, which he considers the lowest form of communication. He says that he is insulted when he receives emails because it is one person's own conversation with themself at you. They do not want to speak with you, otherwise they would have called, so they just want to contact you at their own leisure time saying everything they wanted to get out of the conversation without any input from you. Thus, he sees emails as lazy insults, which I agree with his opinion, but maybe not to that exaggerated degree.

I may not be as hysterical as Seinfeld himself, but I tried to recreate his jokes that related to technology. However, getting back to his original question, don't we all just want to communicate, is highly true. What else am I doing here on my blog? Why else would someone write, but to communicate? The internet is now this incredible source to share information, ideas, opinions, stories, recipes, comedy, you name it!

I'll listen to Jerry communicate to me any day.