Seinfeld going for longevity at Caesars Palace

Celine is back, but Jerry never left.

Granted, Jerry Seinfeld plays the Colosseum at Caesars Palace only once or twice a year, and never signed on to play the 150 or more dates Celine Dion agreed to when she opened the building back in 2003.

But Seinfeld has been the building's most consistent annual visitor, the only entertainer not to have skipped a year since it opened. "It's a big room, but it does seem to work for me," he said back in 2005.

For a time it seemed hard for him to separate "Seinfeld" the TV phenomenon from Seinfeld the stand-up. But audiences seem eagier to see him either way. Three years of his Web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" have reinforced his scholarship of comedy technique and stand-up as an art form.

And onstage, the 61-year-old transitions past his TV mullet days into talking about current obsessions such as children, male performance pills and texting.

Seinfeld picks up an extra night at the Colosseum after the Who postponed Friday's concert, citing Roger Daltrey's illness.

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