Jerry Seinfeld may have presided over one of the funniest and most successful television series of all time, but standup comedy will forever be his primary domain.

And Seinfeld is very much still the master of his domain.
He did a long bit on what he called "sad technology" — iPhones and Blackberries and e-mail — all of which makes it easier to communicate without actual human contact.

"I believe *69 was the first feature that was actually hostile to the caller," he said. He also wondered how the number selected by the phone company slipped through the organization unchecked. "Did not one of these people go to junior high school?"

Seinfeld also dealt with useless phrases that clog up conversations and confuse consumers. "I saw a Tropicana orange juice commercial," he said. "It used to say ‘like fresh squeezed.’ Then it was ‘more like fresh squeezed.’ Now it’s ‘even more like fresh squeezed.’ " Building to that famous state of Seinfeldian exasperation, he pleaded, "If they could just…squeeze…the oranges!"

Now 54 and married for nine years, Seinfeld commented on the changes in his life, noting that "marriage is like a game show, and you’re always in the lightning round."

He said that he and his wife had a small wedding and told people in the audience planning their own nuptials, "Nobody wants to go to your wedding. It’s just a bad party."

Of wedding dresses with long trains, he said, "No groom ever says, ‘I need 20 more feet of pants to drag behind me.’ "

Seinfeld made fun of drug commercials, including the well-trod ground of Cialis and its cautionary note to call a doctor if a four-hour erection results. But he put his own spin on the bit. "I wanna know what he’s gonna do about it," he said, "before I put on my poncho and waddle down there."

Faced with the unenviable task of opening for a legend, Tom Papa made the most of his 20-minute set. Among his topics were becoming a father and giving up on trying to be cool. On counting to three to get his young daughter to behave, he said, "What she doesn’t know is, once I get to three, I got nothin.’ "

He also talked about vegetarianism, observing, "What if God didn’t intend for us to eat the animals? He must have been pretty freaked out when we started."