Jerry Seinfeld Slams Manhattan Comedy Club Operator For Deserting NYC – Deadline

In an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh terms for a Manhattan comedy club operator who bolted for Florida and lately claimed the Significant Apple is “completely dead” with no hope for a rebound.

“You say New York will not bounce back this time,” Seinfeld writes in a New York Instances impression column posted these days, not naming his focus on but linking to a LinkedIn write-up prepared before this thirty day period by Stand Up N.Y. comedy club co-operator James Altucher. “You will not bounce again. In your enervated, pastel-stuffed new everyday living in Florida. I hope you have a extensive, healthy operate down there. I simply cannot believe of a far more fitting retribution for your fantastic posting.

“This stupid virus will give up at some point. The very same way you have.”

Altucher, whom Seinfeld phone calls a “putz,” wrote in his August 13 publish that COVID-19 has led to, between other issues, the city’s economic devastation, enhanced criminal offense, and the reduction of eating places and cultural institutions.

“I co-personal a comedy club, Standup NY, on 78th and Broadway,” Altucher wrote… “It’s a terrific club. It’s been about because 1986 and just before that it was a theater…In the earlier yr, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Tracy Morgan, and quite a few many others have been on the phase.”

“I adore the club,” he continued, noting that Standup NY has just lately staged demonstrates outdoors. “That stated, we have no thought when we will open up. Nobody has any strategy. And the longer we close, the less prospect we will ever reopen profitably.”

“Broadway is closed until finally at the very least the Spring. Lincoln Middle is closed. All the museums are closed. Forget about about the tens of 1000’s of positions missing in these cultural centers. Fail to remember even about the thousands and thousands of bucks of vacationer and tourist-produced revenues lost by the closing of these centers.”

Altucher’s critique was no laughing make any difference for Seinfeld. “The last point we need to have in the thick of so quite a few worries is some putz on LinkedIn wailing and whimpering, ‘Everyone’s absent! I want 2019 back again!’” the Seinfeld star writes. “Oh, shut up. Consider becoming in a actual war with this male by your facet.”

Seinfeld carries on: “He says he understands individuals who have left New York for Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Indiana. I have been to all of these destinations a lot of, several, several occasions above numerous a long time. And with all owing respect and affection, Are .. You .. Kidding .. Me?!

“He says Everyone’s absent for fantastic. How the hell do you know that? You moved to Miami. Certainly, I also have a location out on Long Island. But I will never abandon New York Metropolis. At any time.”

Seinfeld provides, “You discovered a location in Florida? Good. We know the sharp concentrate and restless, resilient inventive spirit that Florida is all about. You feel Rome is going away too? London? Tokyo? The East Village? They are not. They change. They mutate. They re-form. For the reason that greatness is uncommon. And the correct greatness that is New York City is further than uncommon.”

Oh, and about that Manhattan location? “I have been onstage at your comedy club Stand Up N.Y. quite a number of moments,” Seinfeld writes. “It could use a minimal sprucing up, if you really don’t brain my declaring. I would not get worried about it. You can do it from Miami.”