Jerry Seinfeld has opened up about his favourite joke and the most bizarre place he was recognised

HIS favourite joke, the most bizarre place he was recognised, the Seinfeld episode that never aired and how he handles hecklers. Jerry Seinfeld reveals all.

JERRY Seinfeld is almost 60 years old, but the quick witted comedian is showing no signs of slowing down.

The sitcom star has just launched the third season of his popular web series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee and he's working on a new project with Seinfeld co-creator Larry David which he promises will be "gigantic".

He somehow managed to find time in his busy schedule to answer questions from fans all around the world during a reddit AMA, revealing what his favourite Seinfeld episode of all time is, the most bizarre place he was recognised and his favourite joke.

Here are the Seinfeld's best comments from reddit:

Why he became a comedian: I chose comedy because I thought it seemed much easier than work. And more fun than work. It turned out to be much harder than work, and not easy at all. But you still don't have to ever really grow up. And that's the best thing of all.

Seinfeld ran from 1989 to 1998. Picture: Supplied

His favourite Seinfeld episode: 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 mail truck 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 favourites.

The one Seinfeld episode that they scrapped: 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.

His favourite Seinfeld quote: The only line I quote from the show (and I'll be very impressed if anybody out there remembers this line) is "If you're one of us, you'll take a bite." I find myself saying that to my kids a lot. It's a very obscure line, but George was working at some company where they all had lunch together, and he wasn't trying the apple pie, and the boss finally says "If you're one of us, you'll take a bite." A lot of times kids won't want to try certain foods, and so I'll use that line. Sometimes I'll quote Newman in flames screaming "Oh the humanity."

Jerry Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn, New York. Picture: Supplied

On handling 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.

The most bizarre place he was recognised: One time, a friend of mine and I decided to drive a 1967 VW Bug from Albuquerque to the Hamptons. I bought the car on eBay for $5,000 and flew to Albuquerque and my friend flew from LA, and we decided to do that for something fun to do (this, by the way, is the actual original inspiration for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the year was 2000 and I did this with my friend Barry Marder, who you may know as the author of Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy).

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.

And that, to this day, so blows my mind that not only was he NOT SURPRISED that I was in this town, population 115, but that I just walked by him, he recognised me and he felt the need to say anything more than "hi." Not "what the hell are you doing here." I'm sure that guy is out there, somewhere.

Favourite joke of all time: Oh my god, that question is overwhelming to a guy like me. Well whenever my kids ask me this question, I always answer with "Two peanuts were walking along, one was assaulted." And I like that joke because anybody can tell it, and it always works. And it's very short.

Jerry Seinfeld and wife Jessica Seinfeld. Picture: Supplied

One of his fondest memories: I do kind of like in the documentary I did in 2002, called Comedian, there's one point where I'm performing at Governor's in Levittown at the absolute height of Seinfeldmania. And the club owner comes in the dressing room and says to me "I need you offstage by 9:15." And I said "what?" And I was performing there to create a new act. It was kind of a big deal that I would come to that small club, and the owner of the club just treated me absolutely the same as everybody else, and I just thought that was so funny. That was one of my favourite moments in that documentary. That's why I wanted to go back into doing stand-up comedy, because as the star of your own TV show you don't get treated like that but as a stand-up performer you do get treated like that. It was hilarious, and absurd, but stand-up is a life of just brutal reality which is the opposite of the life I had been leading in LA and that I missed.

The coolest thing he gets to do every day: That I get to do on a daily basis? Probably walk to work. I think that's about the coolest thing that there is. Or take my bike. If you can walk to work or take your bike on a daily basis, I think that's just about the coolest thing that there is. Every morning I listen to the traffic on the radio, and they talk about how they are jammed and I just laugh. I love traffic. I love traffic reports because I'm not in any of them.