Jerry Seinfeld sees his days at high school as unusual

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld felt out of place among the popular kids at his suburban New York high school.

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"I kind of took myself out of the kind of main cliques of the school, because I didn't feel comfortable," Seinfeld tells Parade.com.

"I was kind of sensitive, and I couldn't take the scapegoating and the roughhousing and the cigarettes and the `let's get beers.' It wasn't for me, that world," says the 53-year-old, who graduated from Massapequa High on Long Island in 1972.

"So I would find some nerdy kid, you know, who seemed bright, and I would just hang out with that kid. It was either that, or looking for a touch football game, or basketball or baseball, just always trying to get a game going."

Seinfeld is now part of Hollywood's cool crowd - filthy rich from "Seinfeld" reruns and soon in theaters with the animated "Bee Movie," which he produced, co-wrote and stars in (at least his voice does).

Seinfeld says he became fully committed to a career in comedy as a twentysomething doing stand-up in New York.

"Even if I could just make enough to buy a loaf of bread and not starve to death, (being a comedian) would be the greatest adventure that I could ever go on."