`Seinfeld' Standout Stand-Up
This Jerry Seinfeld is a very funny fellow. A cleverly, wittily, engagingly funny fellow. A screamingly, shriekingly, bone-crunchingly, head-achingly, stomach-churningly funny fellow.
All right, maybe not quite that funny. But Jerry Seinfeld is Just Funny Enough.
The deadpan stand-up wag proves it again tonight with the premiere of a four-week-long (and therefore-too-short) NBC summer series appropriately named "Seinfeld," at 9:30 on Channel 4.
When it got a sneak preview airing last year, the show was called "The Seinfeld Chronicles," but then ABC's dismal "The Marshall Chronicles" came along (and went along), and the title was shortened. Anyway, it's still the same pleasantly bright idea. …
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