Jerry Seinfeld
The Bee's Knees
WHY HIM You mean, besides the fact that he's a comic genius who is unveiling his first major new work since his beloved sitcom went off the air? (That would be the animated Bee Movie, out Nov. 2.) Okay, fine. The trailers are killer. It costars Chris Rock, Renée Zellweger, and Oprah. And it's Jerry, people! He's back!
WHY'D IT TAKE SO LONG? Because Seinfeld just about killed him: ''I can't express where I was at mentally after creating 90 hours of scripted television. That's 53 some-odd feature-length films in nine years!''
BUT AN OLD RUNNING GAG BROUGHT HIM BACK ''The bee thing had been a joke between me and [fellow stand-up comic] Mario Joyner for years. Like, 'Did you see that documentary about the bees?' And then we'd start doing the bee characters and imagining them in human context.''
AND THE MAN LOVES BEES ''I mean, the honey thing. It's a wonderful, amazing, miraculous thing. You know you can find honey in the tombs in Egypt? Then there's the hexagon in the hive. I could talk to you about the hexagon forever. And, of course, you have the hilarious stripes — and they're overweight.''
