Comedian Jerry Seinfeld Blames “Extreme Left” for Death of Comedy TV Shows
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- Jerry Seinfeld took aim at the “extreme left” for ruining comedy in an appearance on the New Yorker’s podcast. Is milquetoast Jerry Seinfeld too edgy for the “woke” left, or is the real problem that he’s unable to tell funny jokes? It seems like it’s the latter based on comments about “political correctness” he made in the past.
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Jerry looks at the death of cable and the rise of streaming caused by Capitalism and thinks to himself... the left is cancelling comedy. Genius stuff.
yeah I'm sure he's done ssssooooooo much to help up-and-coming artists...
@@prismpyre7653
He used to compare comedy clubs
with up and coming comics
and both
Bill Hicks & Jimmy Pineapple said he was an arrogant prick.
It's embarrassing how out of touch he is. Sad shit tbh
I think this sums up the bulk of the difference between left and right, and young and old. Young lefties see how capitalism has hollowed out America, and the older more right wing crowd have mostly benefited from doing the hollowing out, and don’t see why anyone else has an issue with it.
@@Vort_tm Yeah, their personality relies on justifying how they supported the destruction of the social structures meant to help young people. They must find someone to blame that doesn't require them to face reality.
ITS THE FAR LEFT'S FAULT THAT JERRY DATED A 17 YEAR THEY MADE HIM DO IT
Bloody Baader-Meinhof
That poor girl, no living creature should date Jerry Seinfeld.
a 17 year old can drive a car, but they can't date somebody older than them. god bless america.
@@plasticweapon a child shouldn’t be dating an adult. Period. A 17 year old can drive with a bunch of very specific rules in place due to them being underage.
@@plasticweapon He was TWICE her age. Stop defending child abuse
Larry David was the reason people thought Jerry was funny.
I never thought Jerry was funny. Not even when I was obsessed with Seinfeld the show.
Exactly. Curb Your Enthusiasm is funny in so much the same way as the Seinfeld show was, without the Seinfeld! The off-screen talent matters!
Jerry was the worst one on the show, the other 3 absolutely carried him.
yeah he's a charming psycopath who knows how to read and engage with others--- Jerry is just a dull borish sociopath blinking at us with unfeeling reptilian eyes
@@markharrison6498 The worst thing about _Seinfeld_ was his little stand-up bits.
Bill Mahr should have him on his show, they can lick each other’s unfunny wounds. 😂
“Wounds”
Lol i was gonna say he and bill maher should hang out since they both live in a bubble
Yup.
Vaginas*
Stephen Colbert once said that it was forgivable to be offensive only if you were actually funny. Empathy and understanding are important to be funny.
And it's absolutely true. If the joke is actually funny, it'll usually land even if it's poking fun at a minority, even among members *of* that minority.
There's a reason that "You're bi, and still not dating anyone? Damn, you're TWICE as single" usually works (just, ya know, as long as they're not already upset about being single), and the usual conservative crap doesn't - the punchline isn't just being offensive.
@@dusklunistheumbreon
It's because there's a totally easy way to joke about things that feels like the comic actually understands the people they're roasting. Rightwing comedians think that punching down for fun is still comedy and not just being a bully for laughs.
Comedy has always been a way to speak truth to power, and speak power to the voiceless, in a way that is supposed to get everyone laughing.
George Carlin became increasingly bitter the older he became, but his years of punching up for so many people can't ever be erased .❤
Maybe Jerry Seinfeld should share a stage with Rosanne Barr, Rob Schneider, Bill Maher, & Jimmy Dore then he'd see who really killed comedy.
You forgot Dennis Miller
The funniest thing about Jimmy Dore is that he describes himself as a comedian
Roseanne is hilarious. Just because she's gone legitimately crazy doesn't mean she's not funny. Don't throw her in there with those guys.
Don't forget Jim Bruer. That dude fell off so hard, he left a f*cking crater.
@@electric8668 bop bop bop
Jerry Seinfeld was NEVER funny
THANK YOU!! I was just coming here to say that too. 😅
Agreed but also, I’d say he was the reference in most running jokes in the early 00’s about not being funny.
Here here!
YES! You must also be GenX.
thank you. I thought I was the ONLY person on earth that felt that way.
Jerry Seinfeld sounds more like Bill Maher....A Hack who can't tell a real joke anymore.
When the comedian becomes the joke
ABSOLUTELY
Was he ever good? Isn't Larry David the reason he got famous?
@@jackiecooper9439 I would say he was "Good", but only in the sense that he kind of got by under wildly lower standards of comedy in the USA. There was a lot of good comedians in America in the 80's and 90's, but also a Looooot of "Eh" talent that still got massively bizarrely popular for awhile.
By this point there's really nothing Seinfeld's ever done comedically that hasn't become trite, cliche, or overdone to absurdity since then. The medium evolved, Jerry did not. Standards evolved, Jerry did not. And he's mad that he's a has-been now.
Skibidi Jerry
You can always tell when a comic is past their prime when they start blaming the audience for why nobody is laughing at their jokes. No, bro. Normal comics are killing it across the country. You are just old, rich, and out of touch.
And very smug...even though he was the weakest link on Seinfeld.
Nothing says boomer like "kids and their phones! Gay men and their hand gestures, amirite?"
Clearly he has no effing clue who Tom Segura is.😂
Nothing more lame than blaming the audience for not liking your material
Seriously though!
Just like Gene Simmons of KISS.
He's just old and in denial to admit it. Old dog, old jokes.
Kind of like blaming voters for not wanting to vote for candidates with crappy policies.
Reminder that Jerry Seinfeld took a 17 year old out on a date when he was 39. He's a groomer that ended the relationship as soon as the press caught wind of it.
That was 50 years ago 🙄 Countries around the world started to raise the protection age much later. Thanks to bible some people wants to take it down to 14 or something.
What a creep.
They were in a relationship for a while
“What’s the deal with airline food” is literally the most meme’d bad joke of all time
Yeah dude, you kiddin? Like I couldn't have done that interview cause I'd have said, "Oh people found you funny in the past? I never did."
What about those Smartphones they have nowadays? If you have one, you're not smart. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? (Silence) What's up, too controversial for ya?
It's the rolling tumbleweed of comedy.
I remember Inside Job referencing that joke.
They literally made fun of that joke ON SEINFELD! When George was under cover pretending not to have seen Jerry since highschool he belittles his comedy saying "What do ya do? A lotta that 'oh did you notice?' type stuff?" "yeah, yeah..." "Hmm yeah it strikes me a lot of people are doing that sort of thing now" "yeah...yeah......Well. You really went bald there didn't you?" "yeah well...I guess I started losing it when I was about 28, that would have been right after I made my first million."
What's the deal with thin skinned comedians?
0:16 Seinfeld ain’t no George Carlin. Carlin would be out there calling people assholes and was that way to the end. Carlin spoke words to power in the line of Lenny Bruce.
Carlin didn't punch down & was actually funny. That was the difference.
Carlin had a heart. Which will always be relevant.
Yeah 👍 Carlin was savage and knew the true purpose of comedy
He became really bitter as he got older, but that pales in comparison to his decades of holding powerful groups accountable.❤
The "Extreme Left" loves Always Sunny. What killed comedy is Studios playing everything safe for their advertisers. That comes with primetime TV. The other problem is rich "comedians" who are completely out of touch with the country they inhabit. Both issues are too many millionaires lost in their bubbles and blaming others for their failure to connect. Don't suck and people won't think you suck.
That’s because it’s always sunny actually has some based takes underneath it’s absurdity lol
@@andrewdwyer2456 For a stupid show it's pretty smart. But don't tell anybody...
@@1monki oh it’s ingenious lol
Exactly 💯💯💯💯
Everybody likes always sunny. Those guys are probably more right leaning if you watch it. This whole Left Right shit has gone too far. I'm checking out. If trump wins great idc anymore
These washed up comedians complain about wokeness, political correctness, and cancel culture ruining comedy, but all I hear is "Wahhh, don't make me come up with new material! That takes too much effort!"
Because they understand that grifting is easy as fuck and earns plenty of people millions. It's just so pathetic that people keep grifting and trying to grift.
Meanwhile shows like Bojack Horseman manage to be hilarious all while not keeling to the lazy trick of putting minorities on the chopping block for a cheap gag.
That's kind of always been a thing. I remember seeing billboards in the 90s, with radio hosts with duct tape over their mouths to symbolize 'they're trying to silence me'. There has always been this cringey wannabe persecution with comedy, but at least back then they would blame corporate. And it was true, they didn't want them cursing and stuff when they made their money from commercials. Now they blame the audience, which makes no sense at all, and it's cringe overload. "The peons don't get my jokes about the super relatable way a gay French kings would have gestured!". Jerry Seinfeld is, and has always been, corporate. He censored his own hack comedy for money, and now he's crying about how no one respects his lame ass PC comedy.... cause according to him it's 'too edgy'. It's ironic.
Rodney Dangerfield never stopped being funny and never updated his shtick. If you're honestly funny - even the passage of time can't stop you. Seinfeld should have simply retired and sat on his huge pile of cash. (posted elsewhere but bears repeating here)
@@barneybetsington7501 Ever since Farris Wilks made his fortune in Texas' fracking industry and propped up the Intellectual Dark Web when he saw how influential Gamergate made it once.
I watched "Seinfeld" because of everyone else on the show.
Kramer ❤
@@chaosflash912Costanza
The funniest thing on that show was Elaine's dancing
Fuck that show entirely. Watched it because it was on.
I watched it for Julia.
Meanwhile comedians are crying about thier cancellation by the extreme left, wiping their tears with their Netflix dollars.
Stewart Lee does a good bit on that.
"Apparently getting your own Netflix special is being cancelled."
They're all over YT comments with various shows that have simply fallen out of fashion as times have changed, saying things like "you just can't show this anymore", or "this would never get made today", like, they're literally watching it on the world's biggest video platform, complaining that it's being cancelled 🤣
The problem with the gay French king joke is that it wasn’t specific enough. If he’d used a real or even fictitious name it would work…to a degree.
He could have said scrolling like ‘the Grand Marquis Facade’ or “Oscar Wilde on poppers” along with the big flourish.
But using “gay” as your punchiest adjective is old and played out.
Or say posh instead of gay. It's always okay to ridicule the posh.
He's lazy. It's not difficult to find a French ruler accused of being gay. He could expand on the joke and talk about how difficult it is to judge sexuality of historical figures. On the one hand many of them were closeted. On the other hand being accused of being gay could've been a lie created by his enemies
Jerry Seinfeld got rich playing the straight guy to actual funny people on a show named Seinfeld.
Exactly.
When I was a comedian, if the joke did it work, it didn't work. You dropped it and you moved on. Every comedian has notebooks full of material that didn't work. The difference now is that comedians have an out: the audience is PC, the audience is woke, the audience, the audience, the audience. No, sometimes material doesn't work. That's part of the job.
well said-- every loser and hack who can'tn cut it (or talented people maybe but they don't know how to play the game or dont wanna suck what they have to suck to get ahead) now they just all punch down with their anger and say it can't be them
Exactly. Same in bands. If a song didn't get folks on their feet, you shelved it.
@@prismpyre7653 And what's ironic about all this is these same people love to yell "No Participation Trophies". But here they are wanting a participation trophy 😆
Sometimes a joke or routine doesn't match a particular audience. However, it's down to the comedian to work this out.
Okay, straight up, when has Jerry Seinfeld ever said anything even remotely interesting enough to even be considered "cancelable?"
You weren't cancelled Jerry, your value to comedy had its last season in 1998. It's almost 30 years later, You're a Has-Been! You're not even on the RADAR of cancelable people, you just "Aren't Anyone" anymore.
that's not true-- that time he went on David Letterman in 2006 to defend Kramer screaming the n-word at an audience member.... I gotta admit, THAT was pretty funny.... especially the part where Jerry screams at Letterman's audience to stop laughing
@@prismpyre7653 XD Okay crap you got me there. Him trying to save face there was pretty great.
@@prismpyre7653 omg! How tf did I miss that one?! Not Kramer being a racist pos, I saw that one, but Jerry defending him! I gotta search for this right now, I need a good laugh this morning. 😂😂
@@lashinka2574 ua-cam.com/video/IwBoVZh1ruQ/v-deo.htmlsi=r10sFtzX_LL9MhSf Most awkward damage control in comedy history XD
@@lashinka2574 To be fair to Michael Richards it does seem like he actually learned his lesson and fully admits he was in the wrong and dipped out of public life, unlike Jerry. He makes no qualms that it wasn't totally unacceptable for him to do it
“What’s the deal with it’s not my 90s heyday any more?”
Why is it Larry David has no problem being funny but Jerry Seinfeld isn’t? It’s not about being woke it’s that Jerry isn’t that funny.
Cause Larry was the genius behind Seinfeld, not Jerry.
@@darkrider962 yeah weird how that works right?
BINGO exactly I mean Larry-- he's a charming psycopath who knows how to read and engage with others--- Jerry is just a dull borish sociopath blinking at us with unfeeling reptilian eyes
It's almost as if his fame has molded his perception of his own comedy as being infallable, when in reality stand up comedy is about as hit and miss as sketch comedy is. You're going to get a lot of crickets until you work out your set of bangers, then when you get so used to that set and try to branch out you're going to see crickets again. When you're already famous the crickets hurt more.
Want to know what's hilarious? The right wing (it was either Charlie Kirk or one of the daily wire guys) has been attacking Larry David saying he isn't funny and the left is now attacking Seinfeld saying it was 100% Larry David. You know you're in a bubble when you're simply posting the flipside of what the other party says.
Comedians who blame the audience for not laughing are so funny to me
His whinging about being cancelled while sitting on a net worth of over $800 million is ironically his best joke.
What has Seinfeld done in the last 25 years besides film himself getting coffee?
All I know him from is the fricking bee movie in the last 25 years lol
@@Ashtree29ouch!
Bee Movie
Has Jerry actually watched right-wing "comedy" before? It's extremely cringy, lacking creativity, and very derivative.
There is such a thing?
@@joannahampton5979 Yes, in the same sense that Pureflix is proof of rightwing "cinema" existing.
@@joannahampton5979
Yeah, there's not much of it though.
It used to be just
hatemongers like Jethro and
Jim Davidson being racist.
Not actually telling any jokes,
just hateful bigotry.
Now there's lunatics like
Gregg Gutfeld making people cringe.
A guy with a net worth of $800 million doesn’t get it. I just can’t believe it.
I love how people like Jerry talk about what you "can't do nowadays on TV" when It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is still going strong and is much funnier and much more "offensive" than Seinfeld ever was.
Seinfeld has never been funny. Only boomers liked his crap. Larry David is what made the show Seinfeld and it's evident in the superb Curb your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld also has never been offenisve, he's just playing the victim cos he's a Narcissist
It's true, I'm one year from being a Boomer and my wife is 2 years away and we both hated his "comedy." And, frankly, his boring self.
30 years of not being funny and he wants to diagnose how comedy died.....
Its a shame he was ever considered to be a comedian. That includes his entire career.
YES! We felt like we were being gaslit by a lot of people around us back then. The man was never a comedian by any definition.
Even Jerry Seinfeld is becoming a hack. Amazing.
Even? Seinfeld has been a POS for a long time. Dude dated a 17 year old when he was in his late 30's
@NoThatRyan really??
Always has always will
Becoming? Na dude always sucked
He always has been
I went to see Anthony Jeselnik recently when he came to Reno, where I live. He told a brilliant joke where he turned this whole "anti-woke" trope on its head. He declared to the entire audience "I'm against cancel culture!" then let everyone applaud. When the cheering had died down, he followed that up with "Thank you, that's my impression of a shit comic trying to get on Rogan." It was the perfect audience troll.
😂😂😂
Seinfeld is no Larry David
Charlie Kirk said the exact opposite thing last week because he was buttmad at Larry David's politics. Sound familiar?
His stand up comedy was never funny. This is not new.
This definitely sounds like something that an adult man who dated a 17 year old would say.
LITERALLY
Jerry could have retired as a beloved comedian, but his ego had other plans.
He's just sad no one has really given a crap about him in the last 2 decades
Jerry just got old and is now afraid of change. Lazy people make the "you couldn't get away with it today" argument all the time and it's never true.
Actually, it’s not “never true”. It’s sometimes true, sometimes not.
@@garym6338 pedant
Jerry, 1994 called. They want their complaints back!
Oh yeah? The jerk store called and they're all out of you!
What's the deal with aging comedians these days?
@@SteefPip John Cleese was on a British radio show today talking about censorship and how sensitive people are these days, like they didn't have outrageous censorship and sensitive people back in the 70s and 80s? I used to like John Cleese (still find his comedy funny), but the man himself has lost me because he too is so out of touch
1993 called too. It wants him to apologize for dating a 17 y/o.
Yeah, well the jerk store called because they’ve run out of you!
It's almost like comedians are mistaking cancel culture for being unfunny and washed up 🤔
Right! The problem is never their delivery or their material. No. No. It's NEVER that.
Jerry sucked in the 90s with his fake dubbed in laughter. Doesn’t surprise me he’s still not funny.
Jerry was always 'the straight man' -- not referring to his sexuality but the role he played in comedy. This is why Tommy Smothers was hilarious but his brother wasn't & it wasn't anyone's fault but the dynamic of this form of comedy. The question remains why Jerry feels he needs to blame the Left for his declining fame? Well, he earned around $900M from his TV show which earns him a place in Oligarch Land. Apparently he thought his fame would last forever, but frankly I never found him that funny in the Nineties & today such clueless, overinflated has-beens are insufferable.
Right!
He blames the left because when he toured around Israel expressing his support for their actions in Gaza, people caught wind of it and were understandably upset, which spiraled into how much of a shitty guy he was and how he got famous for a show that was carried by other people.
Sounds like he’s the one who is offended
Almost half of Jerry’s jokes on his show, we’re making fun of people with disabilities
Like Howard stern did for years
@@JohnnyDelco very true.
I mean, almost half of them? Not so sure about that one. Yes, there were episodes here and there that featured a character with a disability in one of the subplots, but the comedy was almost never actually at the expense of the disabled person; the comedy was almost entirely derived from adjacent things, like around how the main characters were insensitive or needlessly stupid in how they dealt with or chose to interact with the disabled character, which would lead to moments of absurdity - usually highlighting the personal flaws of the main characters and how misguided they were.
You're not laughing at the deaf lady or the bubble boy, you're laughing at the main characters' misguided, neurotic stupidity that comes about when they try to navigate interacting with these individuals. In some instances even, the patronizing and/or ignorant attitude that the main characters have towards a disabled character is lampooned and blows up in their faces.
@@donnydogpiss4533 well I guess it’s relevant in this after my comment to mention I have seen every single episode so you don’t need to summarize for me
It's not that Seinfeld is getting cancelled, he's got to create some kind of issue to jump start his dead career. Hopping onto the cancel culture train seems to be pretty lucrative to comedians who's jokes aren't landing anymore.
Ironically the comedy in Seinfeld was so tame that you could still air it today.
That’s just it. It’s not like Seinfeld contained anything that people today would even be offended by.
Fun fact: All in the family and Mary Tyler moore were considered “woke” back in the day jerry. A lot of religious organizations wanted those shows off the air for “indecency”.
M*A*S*H* was also shockingly woke for the time, talking about racism, sexism, homophobia, disability, class, etc. Hawkeye was a sex pest in the first few seasons however I figure that was the status quo in the 50s.
Why is it that Every. Single. And I mean EVERY SINGLE washed up comedian thinks we wanna hear about the good old days?
If that audience was anything like me they legit just didn't get his joke, because it was lame. "Like a gay french king" - huh? It didn't get any funnier once you explained it lol
Dude had a successful show once three decades ago, co-written by a highly successful television creator, and was an "also-ran" in comedy before that. Why would we assume he knows something about comedy?
Because that show was funny because of the rest of the cast and writers. Seriously anytime the show Seinfeld is brought up, we're always talking about a scene of Costanza or Kramer.
He WAS funny for the 90's. "What's the deal with Ovaltine" is not funny to young people anymore. Blaming the left, is not funny, either.
Boomer Seinfeld was always an overrated comedian. Better watch Bill Hicks and George Carlin, those are really great social commentators that actually also make great comedy.
My personal gods are The Marx Brothers. They never punched down.
George Carlin was a master at comedy and he never targeted minorities or LGBTQ people in order to make people laugh. Hell, he even ended up in court over the use of swearwords and he won his case because it was a first amendment issue.
People don’t head home and watch scheduled tv shows as they did in the past because most of us stream whenever we want. There’s plenty of comedy shows. To my taste most aren’t that funny. But his co-writer of Seinfeld, Larry David, just finished his last series of Curb your enthusiasm. Yes, Jerry, people watched it and we didn’t get offended.
There's a reason why old stand ups from comedians like George Carlin are timeless and continue to make the majority of people across all generations laugh...
He always punched up, not down.
JS has never been funny, ever. The TV show was funny because of the writing and some of the other actors that were on it. The fact is, Jerry knows deep down that he's not the least bit funny, but he will never admit it. Instead, he'll pretend cancel culture is coming for him.
true
"Seinfeld is one of the cleanest comedians out there, my high school aged girlfriend finds him hilarious"
Seinfeld not being funny is so common it's a *trope*. He should be use to people not finding him funny.
I swear, these big comedians have all turned into a bunch of whiners. Like, how about you just write new fucking jokes?! I thought you were supposed to be “comedians?”
The Far Left created the comedy Jerry grew up on, George Carlin and Richard Pryor were extreme Left in their era, Norman Lear was a Leftist, he created all the shows Seinfeld wanted to be like, Married...With Children was a Leftist show that like All In The Family used the Conservative, Alpha Male father Al and his complete ignorance of every subject he thought he was a scholar of as the punchline.
The farthest Left Seinfeld ever went was that episode with the dentist that converted to Judaism so he could tell Jewish jokes. The characters on the show were about as entitled, privileged and Conservative as that one woman in Michigan who tried to have the Bundy's cancelled.
I'm still bewildered people thought Seinfeld was funny. I never got it. Was I too young?
A ton of my friends loved that show. It was a bland by the books 'comedy' to me. His comedy tours seemed like he's your still single uncle trying to make dad jokes.
Some people can't handle the real comedy, Wonder Showzen, UCB, Assy Mcgee, Tim & Eric, etc.
@@fd35g3 I watched a dozen or so episodes and the only joke I actually remember was George taking his shirt off so that he can go poop. But so do I but not in a stranger's bathroom
no it's just that he was a sociopath and him doing normal sociopath stuff was hilarious to my parent's generation (late boomer and Xer) who were taught that they SHOULD act like sociopaths and that's what a good murican/capitalist does, but also felt bad about it because some of them had souls.. so they needed someone like Jerry to look at and go "well I may be that guy, but at least I'm not THAT guy"....
What's the deal with Seinfeld?
No one in my immediate family likes Seinfeld. Whenever the sitcom would come on when I was younger, my parents would change the channel. When asked, my parents told me he was boring. When I watched a few episodes of the show and a couple of his specials, I agreed.
This guy went to a high school and picked himself out a child to date, when he was at the height of his fame. Of course a guy like that is going to be angry at ‘the left’. Imagine someone did that to your daughter, Jerry.
He needed Larry David writing his show for it to be good. Jerry said on Howard Stern that if Larry David stayed, the show would have went on. So it wasn’t about going out on top. It was about a decline in quality.
Larry David may be a psychopath but he has artistic integrity-- he wanted to feel he was doing his best writing and being funny as long as the show was on air..... Jerry though-- he'd be spoutting this same drivel on Seinfeld Season 34 right now if he could... $$$$$
Jerry out there proving he was the weakest link in his own show
Also telling his examples of “good funny shows” have been off the air/in reruns for 50 years
Maybe he should ask his teenage bride what the kids think are funny nowya days
Oh yeah, I forgot he married a child.
Superman: Jerry it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know you shouldn’t be dating a 17 year old when you’re 38.
Jerry:Wait a minute Superman
Superman: What what is it?
Jerry: 1738?
*fetty wap begins to play*
The times are changing but Jerry hasn’t budged in 25 years. What does he expect?
Does he realize that MASH and All In The Family is the "PC crap" he's lashing out at?
Blaming the left is stupid because it’s young people having a different take on comedy. Old people are dying or giving up on newer television, which is changing the whole genre. There are offensive comedies that have jokes that are offensive but don’t offend because the joke lands and isn’t punching down on someone. It’s not woke or PC culture, it’s sensibilities changing because people are getting smarter. Right wingers too, though not all of them, are getting smarter and more difficult to make laugh. That’s why right wingers aren’t even laughing at Chappelle when he focuses on just trans jokes, and why Rob Schneider doesn’t have a crowd of conservatives lol at his shows. Chappelle has the same stupid trans joke about not “getting” trans when he should have already tried to understand and talk to an actual trans person.
He literally tells us a “joke” about how a trans friend committed suicide because they lost their community defending his transphobia, yet he blames the trans community for their suicide and not his transphobia causing their community to alienate them. It was when I lost respect for him, because he’s willfully remaining ignorant. They even booed him for defending Palestine and Muslims, because right wingers need jokes that punch down and dehumanize the people they hate. Any joke that is relatable and humanizes their enemies, is too woke and not comedy to them.
Do you realise your own hypocrisy and how you are doing the exact same thing to the people you label as right wing as you accuse them of doing.
By saying “right wingers need jokes that punch down and dehumanize the people they hate”, you are playing right into the left/right BS that others and targets people with opposing political views and castd them in the role of “the enemy”. That sentence alone you dehumanised all right wingers and made out they all enjoy punching down on people and are all hateful. Neither of those things is true and that’s a horrible way to think about a large portion of the population.
Thinking in terms of left/right and categorising people as such based on your perception of them and then judging them based on that (almost always incorrect or incomplete) assumption is awful behaviour and a big reason why politics is so polarised and nothing actually gets done to make most people’s lives better.
And how bout those airline peanuts? Am I right?..
Christ, one joke of his flopped a decade ago and he STILL hasn't gotten over it.
I didn't find the joke offensive, just confusing & unfunny.
Everyone on his show were funnier then him
Jason Alexander carried Jerry
for the entire run of the show.
The joke about Jerry not being funny has been around for ages.
Its not even new.
Did he seriously unironically say there's no sitcoms on television anymore?? What rock has he been living under? 😂😂😂
Jerry is neither agile, nor clever enough to get past those gates that he talks about; and, he’s bitter about it.
Comedians getting older used to change with the times, at least the great ones did. Now these lazy hacks just want to be able to decline in creativity without suffering any consequences professionally.
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I don't get it...Seinfeld is one of the most overrated "comedians" ever. Totally unfunny dude...I'll take my comedy advice from a guy who's actually funny, thank you very much🙄
Think about this: If Robin Williams told the same gay French king joke, the exact same way, it would've been absolutely hysterical. Why? Because Robin was FUNNY...Jerry, not at all. (Might also have to do with the fact that Robin wasn't a whiny lil B, either🤷)
Jerry Seinfeld finding out what it's like to date Jerry Seinfeld.
Tossed aside for something new.
Real boomer cringe 😬 Seinfeld wasn’t even that edgy
never was.
He was never funny to me.
I've been saying this for years but Jerry Seinfeld has just never been funny to me. I tried watching the show, his stand-up, none of it was funny. Also he never responded to Superman. Singing 1738 won't get you out of this Jerry.
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Yep, I agree
YES!!!
3:53 we can't even (belittle an entire group of people to belittle another entire group of people)
0:00 *_Uh, no Jerry Hasbeen. STREAMING is why we don’t have comedy shows when we get home because shows don’t have to come out on “prime time”; because there is no such thing as prime time anymore. We still watch comedy but we do it at our convenience, not because Cable TV dictates at what time of night we should be in front of television. And as far as “too edgy” comedy being killed by “the left”: The best humour we find out there is left-political humour, because it speaks to power (John Stewart proves that every day), wherehas right-wing “humour” is NOT humour, it’s just xenophobia & bigotry ment to kick down at minorities, rather then speak to power (Something Jerry Seinfeld never understood because he NEVER, EVER punched up at elites: He always laughed at little people, at minorities and those without power)_*
*_I once had the displeasure to meet Jerry Seinfeld: Most self-important and snooty person one could ever meet!_*
I loved “Seinfeld” during its network run, and no apologies. Thinking back on its best moments still makes me smile. That said, the real-life Jerry Seinfeld always was a self-aggrandizing, selfish asshole. That’s been clear for decades, long before he stuck his pinkie toe into the culture wars.
Agree 100%. A massive ego, not to mention kind of a creep too. The whole dating a 17yo high school girl while he was 30+ in the 90's is just repugnant
They still are making comedy shows.
There’s literally countless things comedians can make jokes on without being an offensive €¥nt
Ask Dave Chapelle if the left tries to cancel comedy.
Hes been doing this schtick for years now
So many “comedians” are ignoring the fact that cultural changes over years have always meant tastes change for audiences, and you can’t just assume you can continue to relay on the same jokes or tropes. Also, streaming is the main cause of the change in what people are watching. Most people don’t go home and plan to watch a sitcom that’s on that night - we’re all binge watching things and many default to re-watching their favorite older sitcoms and watching newer serialized stuff that’s maybe more dramatic or more based on a over-arching storyline. These complaints are just lazy and lacking any basis in general audience tastes and watching habits in 2024.
A part of the reason Seinfeld was popular was precisely because people were already sick of the typical sitcoms and it was so different.
A refreshing lack of sentimentality and virtually no dramatic scenes. And zero "very special episodes".
His Poptart movie is already being considered one of the worst movies of all time by critics I guess the woke left ruined that too
Why am I not surprised 🙄.
Why are so many comedians falling for their own imaginations convincing them of some cancel culture Boogeyman?
Because when entitled and narcissistic comedians refuse to change with the times they go from telling jokes to being a joke.
I've kind of always found Seinfeld to be relatively unfunny. The show had its moments, but the only thing that ever really came across is that he's a bit of an angry dude.
I’m so glad you mentioned “Veep”. I’ve been watching that show again because it’s one of my favorites and there are incredibly offensive bigger jokes. His friend and former costar was in that show not to mention his friend Larry David was in Curb Your Enthusiasm for 12 seasons. Observational jokes stopped being funny twenty years ago.
I think Seinfeld has had that "gay French King" joke for decades at this point. It's more of a punchline in search of a joke because he keeps trying to make it land. I think comedians have such fond memories of individual jokes landing in the past that they can't accept that they haven't aged well.
I still love the show Seinfeld, even though some of the jokes haven't aged well. The "we're not gay... not that there's anything wrong with that!" episode hasn't aged that badly because they were making fun of themselves. I was actually surprised by his obsession with this "gay French king" joke because whenever gay people were featured in Seinfeld episodes, the jokes were aimed at straight people being ridiculous and awkward about LGBTQ people.
Boomers are also obsessed with their phones
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It's how they get on Facebook
You'd think a comedian that hasn't changed his style since the early 90s would understand better than anyone that comedy ages like milk.
I don’t think Jerry has told an edgy or “offensive” joke in his life. It’s just not his style.
Seinfeld (the show) had its share of dark, edgy humor, but we have Larry Charles to thank for that.
I didnt even get that it was a limp wrist joke until he explained it...
This is an old grift, plus I think Jerry was the least funny character in that show.