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As a kid, Seinfeld wasn’t in the cool crowd

Jerry Seinfeld says he felt out of place among the popular kids at his Long Island high school.“I kind of took myself out of the kind of main cliques of the school, because I didn’t feel comfortable,” Seinfeld tells Parade.com.“I was kind of sensitive, and I couldn’t take the scapegoating and the roughhousing and the cigarettes and the ‘let’s get beers.’ It wasn’t for me, that wo
/ Source: The Associated Press

Jerry Seinfeld says he felt out of place among the popular kids at his Long Island high school.

“I kind of took myself out of the kind of main cliques of the school, because I didn’t feel comfortable,” Seinfeld tells Parade.com.

“I was kind of sensitive, and I couldn’t take the scapegoating and the roughhousing and the cigarettes and the ‘let’s get beers.’ It wasn’t for me, that world,” says the 53-year-old comic, who graduated from Massapequa High in 1972.

“So I would find some nerdy kid, you know, who seemed bright, and I would just hang out with that kid. It was either that, or looking for a touch football game, or basketball or baseball, just always trying to get a game going.”

Seinfeld says he became fully committed to a career in comedy as a twentysomething doing stand-up in New York.

“Even if I could just make enough to buy a loaf of bread and not starve to death, (being a comedian) would be the greatest adventure that I could ever go on.”