When Groucho at the end of his life would
go on Dick Cavett or Merv Griffin or
any of these shows.
Yeah. He got very old and very
feeble and he was no longer Groucho.
I'm thinking that's why you
walked away from Seinfeld,
even though you could
have done another season.
I'm guessing this is your last standup
special for Netflix because you do not
want to end up like Groucho where you
appear less than perfect in one of these
specials.
I think you got me there. Yeah, you
got me there. I uh, you know, uh,
I don't like seeing old people on TV.
I don't, I don't want to inflict myself
on people in a deteriorated state.
I am, I am a perfectionist that way.
That's why I obviously never did
another TV series. I'm not gonna,
I'm not gonna try and beat
that. I can't beat that.
When I was watching the special, I go, Oh,
this is going to be Jerry's
last special. Got it right.
He's not going to want to fuck up.
He's not going to want to do
one more and then, you know,
stay too long at the party.
But I was thinking I would like to
know what you're thinking during this
COVID-19 I mean, I think I
would want to see a special.
I mean I could, I could, I already have
the material to do another special,
but I, I always like to give a
little less than you really want.
A little less. Don't you think that's,
if you look back at all the stuff
I've done, like this TV series,
we could have done one,
two, three more years.
The reason people still love that
show is we didn't wear it out.
It's true. So I liked that. I like,
I liked minimalizing things.
But isn't it a little sad that we're not
going to hear maybe your observations
on COVID19 because you're going to go,
I can't do another special blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
You wish the world was a little less
judgmental and you weren't so hard on
yourself.
I know, but I don't care about the
world. It's just about, it's what I like.
I'm doing what I like. You
do what you like, Howard.
That is the genius of Howard Stern. I'm
going to do it the way I want to do it,
and that's what people respond
to. That's what they like.
They don't want you catering to them.
They want you catering to yourself.
That's your art.
