Jerry Seinfeld Joins Twitter

Hello, Jerry.

Twitter has become the domain for standup comedians, writers and celebrities to work out their best jokes and amass virtual applause in the form of retweets. It's time for them to up their game: the mind behind the greatest sitcom of all time has joined the fray.

Jerry Seinfeld, who has slowly dipped back into the spotlight after a decade-plus absence following the end of "Seinfeld," is now on Twitter, sending funny missives from the username @SeinTime.

"Greetings Tweetarians! I have just landed on your Planet. This could be my last Tweet," he wrote around 5pm EST on Friday. Luckily, it wasn't his last tweet -- he's up to three as of this moment! -- though he's thus far only talking about quitting things. Quite the meta statement from the funnyman.

Of course, let's hope this classic line from his show doesn't hold true: "I learned something. Letting my emotions out was the best thing that's ever happened to me. Sure, I'm not funny anymore. There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations."

Because really, what else is Twitter for?

Comments

[LindyK]

08:33 AM on 07/18/2011

Uh, Jerry Seinfeld is not "the mind behind the greatest sitcom of all time." Larry David is. Jerry was merely the star.

[tanya11111]

07:44 AM on 07/18/2011

twitter is the perfect medium for him to elucidate how unfunny he is without larry david. see his stand up for details.

[SteveDenver]

11:35 PM on 07/17/2011

Funniest thing I've heard from Jerry in a long time.

[kelly1956]

10:12 PM on 07/17/2011

I like Jerry's standup. Have you seen "I'm Telling You For The Last Time?" He can be very funny...

[abuckley23]

04:19 PM on 07/17/2011

"What's the deal with Twitter...?"

[stealur]

10:32 AM on 07/17/2011

The worst thing about Seinfeld was Jerry Seinfeld. All of the other characters were way better, way funnier.

[yoyo1900]

03:59 PM on 07/17/2011

I thought that Elaine was the funniest of them all.

[Dan Same]

07:20 PM on 07/17/2011

I don't think he was ever meant to be the funniest one. I always thought of him as the straight man, who was occasionally hilarious, but usually left it to the others.

[tanya11111]

10:15 AM on 07/17/2011

Yes, please prove to the world how annoying you are when you are not Larry David's mouthpiece. Larry David is brilliant, this guy is a moderately talented line reader. See his stand up for details.

[Warren Mart]

03:00 AM on 07/17/2011

Seinfeld sucks

[Vic22]

11:59 PM on 07/16/2011

Part of me thinks Sienfeld got extremely lucky. His stand ups at the beginning of his shows were never very good. I just think he made a great vehicle for the genius of Larry David to work through. Now that Larry had Curb, Jerry is no longer needed

[Dan Same]

07:22 PM on 07/17/2011

I never liked Curb... I always thought it was a narcissistic vehicle in which David could see how unpleasant he could be.

Disagree about Jerry's standup BTW. If you watch some of his stand ups, independently of the show, I think it's brilliant. But then, I also loved many of his stand ups on the show as well.

[Vic22]

08:28 PM on 07/17/2011

You should give it another chance. I think one of the endearing qualities about it is how Larry is quite often the victim of the most absurd circumstances, and isnt trying to be unpleasant. He's also very self deprecating, and often comes out on the bottom. Gotta respect someone who doesnt make themselves the hero all the time

[acclaimedboy]

11:24 PM on 07/16/2011

not that there is anything wrong with that

[joeythes]

08:40 PM on 07/16/2011

At last, a tweet about nothing...

[DreDay13]

07:39 PM on 07/16/2011

HELLLOOO!!!!

[v eyepete]

05:44 PM on 07/16/2011

I can speak from experience... this is not a nice person, but he too will be speaking to himself, out loud, in the air. Who has time for all these twits?

[stanschurman]

07:50 PM on 07/16/2011

So, elaborate otherwise how do we know you have any first hand knowledge of whether or not he's a "nice person".

[MiaisAwesome]

04:49 PM on 07/16/2011

Can you imagine how many millions he rakes in a year from Syndication and DVD?! Probably about 60 million, this man need not do anything else with his life.

[v eyepete]

05:45 PM on 07/16/2011

This benefits the entire human race by keeping him out of our hair.

[Warren Mart]

03:02 AM on 07/17/2011

You are correct sir

[v eyepete]

05:47 PM on 07/16/2011

You don't read very much do you? Didn't he dump the girl he was suppose to marry at the last minute to marry a minor he fell in love with?