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Article: The Bee in His Bonnet; Jerry Seinfeld's New Flick Began as a Joke but Made Him Busy as a . . . You Know
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- The Washington Post
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- November 1, 2007
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In this episode of Jerry Seinfeld's life, the comedian is to be
found in a little room at the DreamWorks Animation studio. You can
hear him before you see him. That laugh. There is a couch that would
be at home in a college dormitory, a very large TV, and a film-
editing console that is humming with computers and screens. The room
smells faintly of quality takeout. This is where Jerry Seinfeld has
spent the past four years, obsessed with cartoon bees.
"I've got three feet of bee books," he says. "I know quite a lot
about the bee."
For example? "They can't fly in the rain," says Seinfeld. "They
have to land.
"And technically, they can't fly," he continues. "Because their
wings are too small ...