Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has reinvented himself in the decade-plus since his legendary sitcom, Seinfeld, ended. He is still a top-draw for his stand-up performances, for sure, but he’s adapted to the 21st century with an online show called Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. In the show, he does exactly what the title says, taking some of his famous comedy friends for a cup of coffee to discuss - what else? - comedy.

To promote the upcoming season of the show, Seinfeld chatted with fans on Reddit during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session. The topics ran the full gamut of everything Seinfeld fans could want to know, from secrets about his iconic sitcom, future plans with Larry David and his career in stand-up. Of course, he also discussed Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

So, without further delay, here are 10 revelations from the master comedian:

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The first question Seinfeld was asked was “What is the most bizarre/surreal location that you have been to and been recognized?” In his response, Seinfeld revealed that the inspiration for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee came when he and a friend drove from Albuquerque to the Hamptons in New York in a 1967 VW Bug. He took the trip with Barry Marder, who wrote Letters From A Nut.

“ANYWAY, so one time we stopped in this tiny town and somewhere in the Midwest whose name escapes me at the moment, and the town was honestly no more than 2 blocks long, and we are walking on this little sidewalk that they had, and there was a guy there, walking past us, and I was wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, and the guy says as we walk by ‘Hey Jerry’ and kept walking,” Seinfeld wrote.

Seinfeld is shocked to this day that the guy didn’t act surprised that such a big celebrity was in this tiny town with a population of 115.

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Seinfeld was a show about nothing and many of the characters obsessed about the mundane. But Jerry doesn’t do that in real life. When asked what was the most mundane thing he and Larry David have obsessed over, he responded, “We never obsess over anything that isn't mundane. Most recent was intentional mumbling.”

Of course, this was the answer in which he made the big reveal. He and David are working on something big.

“We wrote this script for this thing that you will eventually see but I can't reveal what it is at this time. All I can do is tell you is that it's big, huge, gigantic. Even bigger than that Amazon package.”

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Seinfeld takes his craft seriously, but even he can’t be funny all day. When one Reddit user revealed that he or she had been to the taping of the classic “The Parking Lot” episode in 1992, Seinfeld was surprised. But the person’s real question was “From 0 to 100%, how much of your serious side rules the day?” since the cast wouldn't talk to the audience.

“WOW. P_ro, you are DEEP,” he replied. “And super-observant. Thank you for understanding that I was busy and not being an a.h. I would say that I am 90% serious in my day. Comedy is no joke.”

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Laugh tracks are missing from many of the most acclaimed sitcoms today and Seinfeld has a mixed relationship with them, but he likes them overall.

“This was something we struggled with quite often on Seinfeld. Because we had real laughs on the scenes that were shot in front of an audience, but then we would shoot other scenes that were not in front of the audience (which didn't have any laughs) and then it felt like a bit of a mismatch, so we tried to compromise and put in a subtle laugh track. I think that one of the fun things of a sitcom is feeling like you're in an audience even though you're home, watching it by yourself. I have to say I like some sitcoms with them and some without. Depends on the show.”

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One of the revelations that’s getting a lot of attention is a Seinfeld episode that never happened.

“Yes. There was one episode where Jerry bought a handgun. And we started making it and stopped in the middle and said ‘this doesn't work.’ We did the read-through and then cancelled it. A lot of other stuff happened, but trying to make that funny ended up being no fun.”

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Of course someone was going to ask him what his top Seinfeld episodes are. He said he has two favorites: “The Rye” and “The Pothole.” Note to Wayne Knight - if you ever see Seinfeld in the next few days, make sure he doesn’t set you on fire.

“Well, I'll give you two. One was the The Rye, because we got to shoot that at Paramount Studios in LA which was the first time that we thought "wow this is almost like a real TV show." We hadn't felt like a real TV show, the early years of the TV show were not successful. We had this idea of a Marble Rye and we had to shoot it in an outdoor set, and this was a very expensive thing to do, it's like a movie place there at Paramount in LA. Their standing set for New York looks exactly like it, and we thought "this is where the ADULT shows are, the REAL shows like Murphy Brown." We felt like we were a weird little orphan show. So that was a big deal for us.

“And that was very exciting, we were up all night shooting it on the set of paramount and it was very exciting.

“The other one that was really fun was in the episode The Pothole, Newman drives his mailtruck over a sewing machine and his mail truck burst into flames. It was really fun to shoot, and it was fun to set Newman on fire. And he screamed "oh the humanity" like from the Hindenberg disaster. It's one of my favorites.”

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On the Seinfeld DVDs, there’s a hilarious outtake in the episode where Kramer takes up smoking. When Jerry sees what it’s done to his face, Seinfeld is obviously having a hard time keeping it together. He was asked about that and it’s still hilarious to him.

“That's an excellent choice, the one that you mentioned, because I can still remember how brutally funny that was to me. The thing about the show is that you have to realize that I had to look into the faces of those people, six inches away, so if you think Kramer is funny on TV, imagine his real face six inches from your nose, how funny that is. You can't imagine. It's impossible not to laugh. So I would.”

Seinfeld later responded to the user’s reply, which was interesting. He agreed that the reason the show worked was because everyone in the cast was funny together.

“In fact I would go so far as to say that was the key to the entire show, was that we really felt like together we were funny, and then the audience felt it, and that's how you can somehow catch lightning in a bottle.”

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Without Larry David, there’s no Seinfeld. Here’s how the two met around 1975.

“The first time I met him, that's a long story... I actually was eavesdropping on him talking to another comedian, and I wasn't even in comedy yet. But he was leaning on my car in front of the Improv on 9th Ave and 44th Street, and this would be probably 1975. That was the first time I ever saw him. But we didn't talk. But him and this other comedian were leaning on the fender of my car, and I knew that they were real comedians and I was still just flirting with it. So I don't know if that answers the question.

Then when we finally did talk in the bar Catch a Rising Star on 1st Ave and 78th Street 2 or 3 years after that, we couldn't stop talking. We were both obsessed with the smallest possible issue.”

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Who can forget that bass line?

“The composer was Jonathan Wolff, and we were trying to come up with something that would not interfere with the standup portion in the beginning of the show. We didn't know how iconic it was going to be.”

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Seinfeld has been doing stand-up for decades and has seen it all. In one of his best answers, he explains how he deals with hecklers.

“Very early on in my career, I hit upon this idea of being the Heckle Therapist. So that when people would say something nasty, I would immediately become very sympathetic to them and try to help them with their problem and try to work out what was upsetting them, and try to be very understanding with their anger. It opened up this whole fun avenue for me as a comedian, and no one had ever seen that before. Some of my comedian friends used to call me - what did they say? - that I would counsel the heckler instead of fighting them. Instead of fighting them, I would say "You seem so upset, and I know that's not what you wanted to have happen tonight. Let's talk about your problem" and the audience would find it funny and it would really discombobulate the heckler too, because I wouldn't go against them, I would take their side.”

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