Watch President Obama Appear on the Premiere of Comedians in Cars

Although the web series usually finds Seinfeld driving around his fellow comics in a fancy automobile, Obama has “gotten off just enough amusing lines to qualify for getting on this show”, Seinfeld says in the opening.

Seinfeld asked Obama if being president is like playing chess.

When they went for coffee inside the White House cafeteria, Obama recalled his first night sleeping in the famous building: “It’s not like a hotel room”.

Obama also shows off his presidential limousine, which he calls “The Beast” – “a Caddy basically on a tank frame”.

Without naming names, the 54-year-old president revealed: “Part of what happens with these guys, is the longer they stay in office, the more likely that is to happen”.

And at the very end, after mentioning Obamacare nearly perfunctorily, Obama got in the driver’s seat himself. “You are winning a lot of points with me right now”, Obama responds. But the president isn’t allowed to leave the confines of his barricaded political playground, so they don’t get to use much of the car’s four-barrel carburetor.

Seinfeld was unimpressed: “That’s pretty standard everywhere”, he said. We can think of no better classic American sports vehicle to suit President Obama, and he doesn’t mind the pairing either. Do world leaders look into his eyes these days and wonder if Obama, too, is “gone”?

Seinfeld shows up to the White House in a 1936 Corvette Sting Ray, with a 327 cubic-inch v8 engine and silver blue coat.

Each 20 minute episode features Mr Seinfeld chatting informally with a different comedian.