You can now watch Seinfeld and Obama drive, crack jokes, drink coffee in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

President Obama and Jerry Seinfeld get in a Corvette Sting-Ray

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last updated 31 December 2015

President Obama isn't a comedian, but he, "has gotten off just enough funny lines to qualify for getting on this show," said Jerry Seinfeld in the Season 7 opener of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, released late Wednesday. Obama is an "are-you-kidding-me, super special guest," Seinfeld said, after introducing the featured car, a silver-blue 1963 Corvette Sting-Ray, but the episode is pretty similar to those in the first six seasons — though they don't actually make it to a coffee shop. "You're a comedian with the president, going nowhere — back it up," a Secret Service agent said when Seinfeld tried to drive the Sting-Ray out of the White House grounds. Even Obama couldn't change the guard's mind.

So Seinfeld has to make a pot of coffee in the White House cafeteria, and he and the president chat. They also talk while driving the Sting-Ray, and riding in the back of the presidential limousine. Seinfeld gets Obama to discuss his favorite president growing up — Teddy Roosevelt — what's in his underwear drawer, and his most embarrassing moment as president ("This may be it") among other things. Obama found one of Seinfeld's questions particularly interesting, about which sport politics is most like — chess? liar's poker? (Obama went with football, and explained why as if he's given the question some thought.) And the president even asked some questions of his own. You can watch the entire episode at the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee website, or a preview of Season 7 (with the Obama episode coyly teased at the end) below. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.