Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill Review - 6 Ups & 3 Downs
5. Up - Clever Setups
Golf (Get Out, Leave Family). Seinfeld uses this as one of his jokes about what men do to fill their daily lives. Earlier, he jokes about the postal service.
The way he's able to continue with these topics while bringing up what he's already talked about, like married life, is where Seinfeld shines. The fed up husband who needs to just get away for some golf edges on dated material, but Seinfeld still navigates it in a funny way.
In a similar vein, making fun of the postal service with the advent of email would have hit home better about two decades ago. But again, one can't help but join Jerry along his journey through the issue because it's still funny.
Whenever this writer thinks about Seinfeld, the line, "And what's the deal with airplane food?" comes to mind. It's a topic that people can immediately get on board with, and when the audience is on your side from the start, they'll be more willing to go along with the jokes.
There's no point in talking about subjects people aren't engaged with, so having initial jokes that lead the audience down a rabbit hole of chuckles is a success of the special.