@Joshua Jung takes a douchebag to know a douchebag, douchebag.

"This brings me so much meaning, I'd like to share what bit of beauty I got to find while I was here" "Lol" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "maybe one day" (:

Yeah. I get he was making a joke but at that point if I were Steve I would shut that part of myself off from Jerry forever.

@@melonhead8760 i mean, give me a break. Can we not exist in the Grey, guys and ghouls..? What Steven shared is touching. In CONTEXT (you should check it out..) it's a little over-nerdy and funny. Get over Yourself and don't be a douche. Nuff sed.

@@mettlehed76 ok bro. Are you not the guy who commented on like all the top comments on this obscure ass vid telling people off?

@Joshua Jung You clearly hold umbrage with anything of a philosophical bent. You're patently a vapid, unwashed fool.

I think Stephen only brought the NMH quote up because of how he interpreted Seinfeld's mundane comedy. He assumed the "show about nothing" is a critique on the absurdity of existence itself. It turns out Jerry just is hunting for the lowest hanging fruit, not making a meta commentary on the very nature of the mundane (protip: history has shown it was Larry who was the deeper of the two show runners who brought that level to the humor).

@@incomingcheeks4 you're not smart

hes a comedian. thats how they act with other people. a lot of the time its from ridicule that humor is born

@Joshua Jung If u can't make friends... make enemies? 🙄

Yeah, what's this 'I love you Jesus' nonsense?

@@playasadonejoef you’re actually interested, in the lyrics for the cd/lp, when it gets to that line he actually explains at great length what he’s talking about. It’s not religious, so much as him using “Jesus Christ” within the theme of the album to be an analogy for kinda everything that exists. It’s a really long explanation, and I’m not doing it justice, but I’m an atheist now and was when this album came out, so I was skeptical too. But my much less open minded hard liner 18 year old self was satiated by his explanation.🤷🏻‍♂️ As were a lot of diy hipsters (it was 1998 when it came out I think) who would want nothing to do with overtly Christian music. Hell. I remember the guitarist for Botch was into it. In the diy scene that album was a big deal.

Triskosity literally same

There are coincidentally a lot of parallels between that album and his own life. His father and brothers were all killed in a plane crash. Over the credits of his final show on Comedy Central he played a section of the song "Holland 1945" that in particular hit home.

@@nogoodbastid That piece of info is actually how I became a fan of Stephen. Also, thr fact that he's a big Tolkien geek. I think I remember he even sang/mouth along to the song as the credits roll.

@@nogoodbastid the connection obviously means a lot to him and jerry laughing about it kinda made me feel bad honestly :(

between this clip and the performance that he did with with The Mountain Goats I feel like I'm starting to get a sense of Stephen's music tastes

Louder so the people at the next table can hear...and sing with us!

Yes I think that is just the weirdest thing about that band always talking about semen. In weird ways like that to.

Joshua Jung is wrong, but Jerry is a comedian. Thats how they act with friends. A lot of the time humor is born out of ridicule

@Joshua Jung bro stop replying to everyone who enjoys this song lmao it's not a good look

Beautifully written

Yeah I get that. I was trying to sympathize with Jerry’s reaction cause sometimes I don’t want deep shit thrown at me out of nowhere yknow? And honestly I like what you said about having humility in these situations cause I feel like I’ve been in Stephens position many times and honestly the way you describe it is kind of the best way to go about it. If you cling to your “precious things” for dear life or death you only end up hurting yourself 😅

lol

If he wasn't constantly doing that during every sincere moment I'd agree with you. He's not embarrassed. He's a prick. And if you think it's "strong" to laugh whenever someone is trying to share something with you then I've got bad news: that's a weakness.

People are just cringe and don't know how to listen to someone respectfully without resorting to some immature reflex

There is profundity in simplicity. Water is deeper than what it reflects.

@Joshua Jung So what's your answer to that question? Why are you something rather than nothing? Since a child can answer this you should be apt.

Larry David was always the one who did the reflection. Jerry just was the face saying "what's the deal?" That's why one is still writing a critically acclaimed sitcom and the other is just sitting back as other, better comics provide his show with (usualy admittedly good) fodder. Turns our Jerry is a decent interviewer, at least.

stephen should have phrased it thus: "what's the deal with being anything?" and i think it would have hit home

no hes a comedian he dedicated his life to making money and making people laugh theres no reason to believe he cares about any of that stuff

XXXretardcion stop. pls stop

Hammy Tamele no u

Shut ur up

Johnny Pickles de-stroyed

(impossible)

he's fake to the bone

Except that's just telling you to pick and choose who to share certain things with. Just dropping it on anyone is bad social skills.

Right, but he’s also incapable of doing more. He doesn’t know what to do with that much substance.

well put

Good point.

both are cringe

You do not get the social context. You are the Problem. Please go away.

@@mettlehed76 what is the said emotional context? sorry im not trying to be rhetorical im just genuinely curious

@@mettlehed76 Wow, you should look in a mirror sometime. Maybe you'll see another problem. What if this person you are being a giant penis to is 15? There are so many reasons for someone to take away a different point of view. Get off the computer and find some empathy. I disagreed with the other persons take, yet found you a bigger problem.

@@LukasPrimeEdition NMH fans are fervent. If you listen to ITAOTHS and it's makes the hairs on your neck stand up to the point that you drive 26 hours round trip with someone you just fell in love with to see them you'd understand. I graduated in 1999 and never heard it. I was turned onto it in 2013 under amazing circumstances that I don't have the time to explain. If Colbert is reciting this from memory out of thin air he really loves it. It means more to him than music means to a lot of other people.

He's trying not to laugh, he's just so overwhelmed by how Stephen had it ready to go and Stephen gets that he can't really go there in that moment. He's not hurt by not being able to share it, because Jerry just lifted out of the situation and couldn't help but laugh

what's the deal with emotionssss

Overly sensitive. Stop making overly sensitive douche bags a desired thing. Douche bag.

@@mettlehed76 an overly sensitive douchebag would make it all about himself going on a tirade about the songs personal meaning to him, then storm out. Stop being a drama queen, colbert got put off guard after being disrespected by Jerry and let it slide after realizing Jerry didnt know what he was saying.

@@mettlehed76 not sure what your point is (language is tough?) but it sounds like youre the drama queen.

And? So what? Just because something means something to you doesn't mean it means fuck all to someone else. You can sit their crying all about how a certain song makes you think of your dead friend or dad or whatever, and I'm not gonna say "oh my gosh I didn't think of that way, it's a really great song!" I'm gonna say "huh, that sucks.. but so does that song"

Colbert is such a douche. Kudos to Jerry for keeping his cool

Exactly. If you listen to his WTF episode with Marc Maron this very point is crossed. Maron believing comedy can come from pain or be therapeutic, Jerry saying “a joke is a joke.”

This might be the best youtube comment I have ever read

This might be the most pretentious and insufferable KZfaq comment I have ever read.

@@winstonmarlowe5254 your mother is obese?

Right, I get he's a comedian but fake crying about something someone shares with you as something they feel an emotional resonance with is 3rd grade class clown behavior not something an adult would find funny. Plus the subject of the song is quite deep in general (not that Jerry would know that so I'm not saying he's bad for not knowing so) it's about Anne Frank and the Holocaust.

Yes, he is incapable.....and deeply selfish.

Ironic

OH NO SOMEONE DOESN'T THINK THE SAME AS YOU! Grow the fuck up.

LOL

Nothing, but Colbert committed the postmodern sin of showing he unironically enjoys something, so Seinfeld just had to respond with cynicism.

Jerry was only prepared for COMEDIANS in cars getting coffee. He wants to talk about comedy, cars, and coffee. Colbert was being real, not kidding, and that made Jerry uncomfortable.

It’s because the lyrics are quite surreal. If I told the average person about those lyrics or most NMH lyrics then I would be getting weird looks from other people. They would just dismiss them as silly ramblings instead of looking at them with actual deep meaning. Props to Colbert for actually showing his true feelings on NMH but Seinfeld is a bit of a cynicist so I’m not surprised he responded this way.

@Joshua Jung You've done nothing to prove your claim that existence is well-understood. Even our own consciousness is literally a mystery and we use it to operate on every system in our civilization. People like you take for granted everything wonderful dark and deep about our world. You should refrain from commenting simply because you're stunted or inept.

@Joshua Jung You've made incredibly incensed comments about a simple statement about the nature of isms and you find it to not be a 'deep thought' but it's a prelude to deeper thoughts. You're really missing the point. People like you need more help than anyone can readily provide. Go get a education first.