Neal Justin's TV picks for Dec. 30: 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,' 'Mozart in the Jungle,' 'I Get That a Lot'

December 29, 2015 at 4:31PM
President Barack Obama will be the first guest in the new season of Jerry Seinfeldís ìComedians in Cars Getting Coffeeî credit: Crackle
President Obama will be the first guest in the new season of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Coffee break

Aspiring stand-up Barack Obama has used his executive authority to skip open-mic night at Chuckles Cafe and go straight to "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld's caffeine-fueled dissection of his craft, which revs up for its seventh season. The cruise with the president, courtesy of a 1963 Corvette Stingray, precedes episodes with Will Ferrell, Steve Martin and Garry Shandling. Available for streaming at 10:30 p.m. on Crackle

Welcome to the jungle

Watching violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Lang Lang face each other across a ping-pong table may not be your idea of great television, but to classical music fans it's the equivalent of a sci-fi fan geeking out to the sound of Stephen Hawking chiding Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory." "Mozart in the Jungle" may not be nearly as popular as that hit sitcom, but the comedy, now in its second season, deserves credit for humanizing musicians who appear so stoically on stage at stuffy symphonies. Available on Amazon Prime

I've just seen a face

Kristin Chenoweth waits tables in a diner, Guy Fieri sells cars and Aaron Rodgers mans the front desk of a gym. Either these celebrities have made some serious career changes, or it's time for a new installment of the practical-joke series "I Get That a Lot." 7 p.m. WCCO, Ch. 4

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