Jerry Seinfeld has considered suicide, and no he isn’t joking. Well, at least, maybe he’s not.
The observational comedian behind the hit series Seinfeld admitted in a recent interview with himself and rapper Wale ( via Complex ) that he has a terrace at his apartment 19 storeys up, and on more than one occasion, he has considered jumping.
“Yeah, well I have a terrace at my apartment and it’s fantastic. You have to come see it sometime. Every time I go out on that terrace I think, Maybe I’ll jump. [Wale laughs.] Because if I jump, the list of things I don’t have to do is so long, the issues I don’t have to deal with. All I have to do is jump and everything is taken care of! Now, I don’t jump. But I don’t care to know why I want to jump. What’s the difference why? The mind is not that great.”
When pressed on whether he was serious, Seinfeld insists that he is.
“I am being serious… Every time… I look over it and I think, I could do it. I could do it. I’m on the 19th floor. [Laughs.] All I got to do is jump…. But there’s nothing there. There’s nothing there to explore, is my point. I’m not going to a shrink to find out why I want to jump off the terrace. That’s a waste of another hour!”
To this, Wale, the man behind some Seinfeld-inspired rap albums simply said Jerry was “scaring us.”
The full context to this particular section of the interview was that Wale is very reactionary to his critics while Jerry Seinfeld isn’t. He doesn’t care what you think of him because, as the title of the interview indicates, “Nothing really matters.”
Later on in the interview, Seinfeld followed the terrace-jumping talk with thoughts on the length of life.
“They say life is too short. It’s way too long! And we’re filling it in with a lot of fake stuff…. There’s a lot of stuff. Maybe I’ll jump, maybe I won’t. We have to come up with things to fill in the time. There are old people sitting on cruise ships, doing crossword puzzles, just trying to finish it up. [ Wale laughs .] They didn’t want all that time! But it’s there. That’s why there are a lot of no-talent celebrities, just to fill in the air. We’ve got too much time, too much space. Too many gigabytes.”
Even if you’re not a Jerry Seinfeld fan, the interview (linked above) really is worth a read just for how these two polar opposites strike a seemingly perfect balance.
In related Jerry Seinfeld news, he recently received kudos from autism advocates for his comments speculating that he was somewhere on the autism spectrum and didn’t see it as a disadvantage.
So what do you think, readers? Did Jerry Seinfeld surprise you with his thoughts on suicide, life, and fame? Sound off in our comments section.
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