On Jerry Seinfeld''s debut CD, he already sounds sick of his material. Of course, the point of the performance that it captures--the HBO special I''m Telling You for the Last Time--was to perform the routine one last time and then retire it forever. This recording was taped just a couple of months after Seinfeld went off the air, and the crowd sounds like it''s jonesing for a fix--they laugh at everything, even Seinfeld''s setup lines ("So what''s with the cabdrivers and the BO?"). Still, Seinfeld''s humor--that now-familiar observation from a satisfyingly elitist point of view--delivers. But after all the late-night talk-show appearances, the book Seinlanguage, and nine years of the series, was there really any question? --Randy Silver
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