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Jerry Seinfeld fails to get Chris Rock to try for David Letterman's late-night spot

Two comics hate putting on makeup, especially every day; Jerry plans new season of 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee'

He's gone from being about nothing to career counseling.

Jerry Seinfeld tried to talk his pal Chris Rock into taking over for David Letterman, but says Rock wanted nothing to do with a gig that requires putting on makeup every day, Seinfeld tells Esquire's Scott Raab in the July/June edition of the men's magazine.

"I was trying to convince him to take it. He says, 'Absolutely no possible way,' " Seinfeld said.

"Both of us are out when you hear 'makeup every day.' You hear that and I'm out. But I said to him, 'What would your father do? Would your father turn down a job like that?' I go, 'What kind of father are you? What kind of man are you?,' " Seinfeld said.

ESQUIREMark Wahlberg is on the June/July Esquire cover, which features an interview with Jerry Seinfeld.

"He has other ways to make money, so it's not really a fair question. But that was funny to me. To think of his father getting an opportunity like that and going, "You know what? I don't think so."

Seinfeld, who continues to perform about two nights a week and three weekends a month (at 3,000-seat venues like the Borgata hotel in Atlantic City), discovered a new outlet in 2012, launching what has become a very buzzy Web series, "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee."

Last season his guests included Jay Leno and Tina Fey along with old "Seinfeld" friends Jason Alexander and Wayne Knight.

DAN STEINBERG/INVISION/APChris Rock turned down a chance to take David Letterman's late-night spot, due to concerns over makeup, says Jerry Seinfeld.

"I love the potential that a technology like the Internet gives a guy like me," he said. "I thought, What if I just put something out and didn't say anything about it? People would probably start moving it around for me. It's very selfpromoting. Unlike traditional network or movies, where you got to hustle your butt off to get people to notice something, I said, 'This thing, it'll do it itself.' "

Guests for the coming season include Jon Stewart, Robert Klein, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Jessica Parker and George Wallace.

Despite very little promotion, "Comedians in Cars" is now widely known.

"Same thing happened with the series ["Seinfeld"].You make it. Then it's like you're in a rodeo and you can't get your hand out from under the rope, and now this thing is still going and it's dragging you around in the dirt."