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Jerry Seinfeld's first joke when he auditioned for stand-up at a club in 1975 was this:

“I’m left-handed. Why are so many left things negatively associated? Two left feet. Left-handed compliment. You go to a party, there’s nobody there. Where’d everybody go? They left.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/the-scholar-of-comedy

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Thanks for sharing - I listened to this podcast - very entertaining, and enlightening. And, you reminded me that I left out a few left-handers who I intended to include: Seinfeld and Jason Alexander are both lefties.

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I fairly sure that this is true - that a twin is more likely to be left-handed due to the presence of a mirror image in utero.

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That's an interesting theory, Liza - genes are tricky things.

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May 26Liked by Bill Southern

Phil is only a leftee as a golfer. fyi.

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So, he doesn't grip a pencil with his left hand? He was probably in school when teachers tried to "convert" all lefties to be "normal."

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