Bathroom Creep...

It seems, more and more, this is a topic being worked into stories.

From Dan Zak's interview trailing Jerry Seinfeld as he awaited his "Comedians in Cars" episode with President Obama, filmed December 7.

Jerry Seinfeld adores comedy and cars -- he values the pursuit of precision and mechanical perfection -- — and a few years ago he combined them with his love of coffee and launched this series, which features short videos of wealthy funny people motoring around in classics that only they could afford. He picked up Ricky Gervais in an ice-blue 1967 Austin Healey 3000. He picked up Tina Fey in a candy-apple-red 1967 Volvo 1800S.

And in less than 24 hours he would pick up Barack Obama in the Stingray. He was nervous.

“You learn over the years how to handle yourself when you’re taken out of your box and put into a situation that has different stakes and different jeopardy,” Seinfeld said. But the anticipation of being with POTUS for 60 to 90 minutes was different.

“I don’t talk to anybody about tomorrow. I don’t wanna talk about it. I kind of like to pace around backstage a couple minutes before I go on, so I’ve been doing that for about five days now.”

The crew was also nervous, because the White House seemed nervous. The “Comedians in Cars” shoot was arranged over the summer, but now the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting was still fresh; while Seinfeld taped B-roll, the president was preparing for a prime-time address to the nation.

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Seinfeld, who’s always looking for a novel camera angle, suggested attaching a GoPro to the Stingray’s windshield wiper.

“Oh my God, that’s genius,” he said after, watching the playback in a parking lot by the Capitol Reflecting Pool, his voice reaching that Seinfeldian pitch of hysteria. “Look at that shot! This is so funny. Look at that crazy angle!”

The gathering tourists started chanting “Jerr-y! Jerr-y!” as he opened the Stingray’s door to drive to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He gave them a wave, his cuff links glinting in the setting sun.

“I haven’t been in here since I was a kid,” Seinfeld said, hot-footing through the museum, sunglasses on, so he could use the restroom.
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The comedian was tired. The crew would get a twilight shot of the car at rest along the Potomac, but he headed back for room service at his hotel, where he would continue to pace and prepare. The conversation topics for the president would be quotidian. Seinfeld wanted to nab the normal in an abnormal life, the nothing in the everything.

“I want to know how far he can get in his underwear before it’s weird,” Seinfeld said from the passenger seat of the SUV. “And can you really get a good night’s sleep in this place? It’s like ‘Night at the Museum’ to me, sleeping in the White House. I just had another question: Are you ever talking to somebody and do you ever think, ‘This guy’s out of his mind’?”

Everything went as scheduled the following day. Obama drove the Stingray on the White House grounds. The pair chatted in a basement dining room, and Seinfeld asked about presidential bathroom routines...

Everybody be sure and tune in now.