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_Published 2007-09-26. During some down time at his photo shoot for the magazine, Jerry Seinfeld tells Jess Cagle how he makes his kids laugh._


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## Transcript

What kind of games and things do you, do you play with them and make up for them? I have an elaborate it's a lexicon of games that I have invented. One of them is called the chu chu coming through, which is you kind of sit on a chair and, and, and they crawl under your legs and then you stop them before they get out and ask them questions. And they have to answer the question. And then if they answer the question, you can all get a hat. [ LAUGH ] I mean obviously, kids, like grownups sadly, are very amused by body function, references of any kind, you know. Two kids were in my closet last night naked and they were sitting on my garment bag.

And I said, don't get your butt crack juice on my garment bag. [ LAUGH ] Now I don't know. I just made that up, you know. I don't know what but crack juice is but I knew butt, you know, anything with butt, crack, you know it's going to get a big laugh. You know. And of course they fell over you know. What is the game called fly over the bath? Fly over the bath is, one kid is in the bath and he has a little squeeze toy that fills, you can fill it up with water, and the other kid, I, I fly them over the bath, and as one kid flys over, the kid in the bath squirts the other kid in the face with the water.

And then there's another one called jump up. Which is, I lie one kid on the, on the edge of the bed, and they stay there. And then the other kid, I throw the other kid over, and I tell the one lying on the bed, now in one minute you're gonna see a little kid dressed in pink. He's gonna come flying right over your face, so just watch out for that. [ LAUGH ] And I, it's just you know, silliness.

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