The new Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is up. In it, Jerry Seinfeld drives around with Garry Shandling and they go to the Comedy Store and to the lot where they used to shoot their respective sitcoms and to Dupar's Restaurant at Laurel Canyon and Ventura. It's well worth the 22 minutes you'll spend watching it.
A minor point about these shows — and about those Carpool Karaoke segments that James Corden does. These videos are done by mounting small video cameras on suction cups to the windshield and windows of the vehicle in use, plus there are camera crews in cars that follow, precede or parallel the car with the stars in it. They also shoot some footage of the outside of the cars without the cameras in place, then edit it all together.
Quite often — usually, in fact — no one cares if the geography matches up. It's like on the old TV show Vega$ with Robert Urich. He'd be at the Sahara Hotel and someone would tell him, "Detective So-and-So wants to see you at the Tropicana!" So he'd get in his T-Bird and drive off — and then there'd be all this footage of him in the car and the backgrounds would be rear-screen projections shot on the Vegas strip but with no attempt to put landmarks in sequence. If you paid attention — and they assumed you wouldn't — you'd see him drive by the MGM Grand, then the Stardust, then the Sahara again. Then there's be a long shot of the car driving past the MGM Grand. Then they'd cut back to him and the rear-screen projections and he'd be passing the Boardwalk, then the Desert Inn — all hotels that are not actually placed in that order on the way to the Trop. I think one time he was heading for Caesars Palace and he drove by it three times before finally reaching Caesars Palace.
You'd think that when someone shoots on the actual streets, actually driving to someplace, the backgrounds would relate to reality…but these new videos are so edited that the scenery is almost random. Corden does a lot of his driving videos in my area and I'll see him start saying something as he's passing the bank at the corner of Fairfax and Beverly across from CBS. Then they cut to a different angle of him and he's finishing the sentence while passing a market two miles away. Then when the guest says something in reply, they're back at Fairfax and Beverly again. Seinfeld, when he drives his guests to get coffee, often passes the same building over and over, goes in circles and cruises streets that are nowhere near a direct route between the guest's home and the restaurant.
This doesn't bother me a lot. But I do find myself noticing it.