A couple of insights from Jerry Seinfeld

1. He still practices his craft every day – at the age of 64
2. This excert on comedy vs rhetoric
   

   Are you grateful these days that your comedic muse didn’t lead you down a more political path?
   I like to pursue my own idiosyncratic avenues. If I thought I could do something there that the average comedian can’t do — but I watch Bill Maher or Seth Meyers and I go, I can’t do that well with that; they’re great at it. But I can talk about raisins in ways other people can’t.

   That’s important too.
   I hate the presumption of importance. I don’t like when comedians think what they’re doing is important. That’s not a comedic perspective, for me. I was watching some W.C. Fields with a friend the other day. We could not believe the timing, the material, the performances. Perfect. We wouldn’t change a thing. That’s how eternal comedy is. What political material from 15, 20 years ago do you want to hear? None of it, really. The content of it isn’t, largely, comedic. It’s rhetoric.

A decent, but overly analytical profile of Larry the Cable Guy in Slate. He is one of the few comedians out there that still tells occasionally tells jokes in the Borscht Belt tradition instead of funny anecdotes and observations.