Comedy Costs

In the show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld goes around with different celebrities to get coffee. The main theme of this show is that it is a comedic, satirical talk show, basically, and changes the guest for each show. Each season also has a different coffee related name such as: First Cup, Light & Sweet, Just Made a Fresh Pot, and Late Night Espresso. His guests are all comedians that he can have a good time and joke around with. It is a very casual setting and helps to make it a very relaxed comedy that is not force. In the episode I watched, Jim Carrey was on the show. This was the very first episode of the first season. They started off the show by Jerry driving to pick up Jim. They drove around in a baby blue 1976 Lamborghini Countach and talking about their comedy idols. They talked in the car while they were on their way to the coffee shop they would be going to. Once they got there, they got coffee and continued the conversation. This show is a very casual comedy show that can be funny for people of all ages. It has different humor for different groups. The show is very laid back in its comedy style, in that the jokes do not seemed to be forced. It is almost like an everyday conversation that two, ordinary funny people would have while in a car or while drinking coffee. However, I do not think this comedy style is everyones cup of tea. Some people may not like how casual the comedy is. I find that I like comedy better when it is more in your face and not as laid back. This comedy style is more for people that do not like the comedy show type of comedy that many comedians use today. This type of comedy has a different feel to it than the normal style. If you analyze the comedy style of a comedian like Bo Burnham, he uses political and racial humor along with other controversial topics. These tend to be the main sources of comedy that many comedians use these days. This style is usually described more so as dark humor. However, in this show Jerry just uses casual everyday scenarios to make light humor. Another thing that is interesting about the show is that Jerry picks up every person at the start of each episode with a different car. This is weird because many of these cars are older classic cars that are fairly expensive for how nice of a condition they are in. Every episode features a car that ranges from the years 1949 to 1995. That is except for the last episode of the fourth season. Then he has a 2017 Acura NSX, as the only car that is from the twenty first century. All of the other cars were from the twentieth century. The 2017 Acura NSX starts at factory setting at a price of around $176,000. Many of the other cars are just as expensive or more so expensive due to the classic nature and how good of a shape they are in. There are 59 episodes, totaling 59 different cars used throughout the course of this series. If they are all around an average of $200,000 that is close to $12,000,000 just on the cars used in this show.