I'm Telling You for the Last Time is a 1998 stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy

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 special starring Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...

. The special aired live on HBO on August 9, 1998 from the Broadhurst Theatre

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 in New York City

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. It was then released as an album

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 by the same title, and a VHS

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 and DVD

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 titled Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time - Live on Broadway.

The recording was taped just a couple of months after the show Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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went off the air. Entertainment Weekly

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said about the album: "On its own, the CD is a more than respectable stand-up disc; Seinfeld's riffs ... are worthy of preservation." I'm Telling You for the Last Time was nominated for a 1999 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album.
After recording this special/album, Jerry Seinfeld vowed never to use old material again referencing his repeated use of "bits" from Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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Track listing

1. "Intro/Phones"
2. "Cab Drivers"
3. "Air Travel"
4. "Florida"
5. "Halloween"
6. "Supermarkets"
7. "Drugstores"
8. "Doctors"
9. "Men & Women"
10. "McDonalds"
11. "Chinese People"
12. "Olympics"
13. "Scuba Diving"
14. "No. 1 Fear"
15. "Sky Diving/The Helmet"
16. "Clothing"
17. "Late TV"
18. "Crooks"
19. "Horses"
20. "Bathroom"
21. "Q + A"

External links

• Jerry Seinfeld: 'I'm Telling You for the Last Time' at the Internet Movie Database
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