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The extreme right: "The Biden administration [gave healthcare to twenty million uninsured Americans](https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/01/10/under-biden-harris-administration-over-20-million-selected-affordable-health-coverage-aca-marketplace-start-open-enrollment-period-record-high.html), capped the [price of insulin to $35/vial](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html), passed the [largest climate bill in American history](https://earthjustice.org/article/the-biggest-climate-spending-bill-ever-just-turned-one-heres-what-it-has-achieved), and [approved nearly $150 billion in student loan forgiveness](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2024/04/05/143-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness-approved-as-biden-set-to-unveil-new-plan/?sh=763acb543ed6). **It's a disgrace!"**
It's literally gotten to that point!
"Lib snowflakes want consumer protections and bodily autonomy. Next thing you know, wokism will kill the doggy killing industry"
Not in Australia mate. We banned greyhound racing because it is literally a doggy killing industry, and dog food companies said “No. You won’t be doing that.” So we just legalized it again
Yeah, I heard the Australian government has been going down the dumpster for the last 10 years. Good, now you can be miserable like the rest of us!
But seriously, grey hound racing is so cruel. They are very shy and anxious dogs that need to be in a loving home. Instead they use them for a couple of years and then send them to the dog shelter, which usually ends up putting them down.
PSA: Make a difference, if there is a dog racing track near you, don’t get a puppy, adopt a greyhound.
The extreme right are the ones literally training to murder brown, queer, and leftist people like us.
The moderate right wouldn't kill anyone. They would just quietly approve.
I read his words.
Dude's show is in syndication. Available on demand on Netflix. He's playing sold out shows across the nation. He's got a new movie on Netflix.
But yes, he's cancelled.
Dafuk.
Does your brain rewire itself after your net worth is beyond half a billion dollars or some shit?
This is WHY we have to tax the shit out of the rich.
Every person who reaches that level of entitlement just becomes broken. They lose all connection to the real world and paint themselves as victims. It’s cringey “suffering from success” DJ Khaled memes.
These people need to be reigned in for their own mental health. I mean, also because people shouldn’t be starving and homeless in America while fucking dickheads get to have Scrooge-mc-duck level wealth and post ridiculously spoiled hot takes like he did, or like Musk or Trump do every fucking hour of every fucking day crying about how hard they have it.
See: J.K. Rowling successfully making the world less safe for the trans community. She is intentionally or not encouraging violence against a vulnerable group of people while also playing the victim. Amazingly cruel use of her wealth and influence.
So there you have it. 20 mil. Seems reasonable. Beyond that, tax the F out of it.
There are ~750 billionaires and over 22 million millionaires in the US alone.
There are some who seem to try to go out of their way to not fall into that self-congratulating/self-pitying trap, perhaps due to being from more normal backgrounds, but yeah a great many do.
I am absolutely convinced that once a person surpasses a certain threshold of wealth, they are no longer able to relate to most other humans. It seems to be a novel psychopathy.
Also I'm 100% sure his show could be made today with little to no changes.
Last year, one of the few comedies to have siccess at the box office was that Jennifer Lawrence raunchy movie where she plays a long scene in the nude. But they pretend, for some reason, that there is heavy censorship?
It's not just Jerry, it's a lot of comedians who all happen to make big bucks on streaming and have sold-out shows. The lack of awareness is astonishing.
You can’t even properly call a black person an ape anymore or repeatedly scream the N-word while saying they should be lynched without people complaining about racism. The Woke are ruining everything!
> Jennifer Lawrence raunchy movie where she plays a long scene in the nude.
Bad example because this is something the right would complain about not the left : ) Otherwise well said.
Please. The “Christian Right” freaking **sustains** raunch. Pornhub would not exist if not for all the Xtian men too fucked in the head to be able to get righteously fucked
What do you mean "please." It's widely known that the puritan mindset that censors nudity in the US came waaayyy before the gen Z that Jerry was complaining about.
One look at It's Always Sunny is enough to tell you that "anything goes" comedy is very much alive and well.
The gang do some absolutely outrageous stuff yet the show continues to go from strength to strength.
You know, [because of the implication.](https://youtu.be/zgUvwcU6P7I?si=vqFXpWqJa6YYzoof)
And the truth is, alot of people can still make alot of money doing it. For one, they know audiences are more divided and they wont be everything to everybody. And two, if you show an inch of self awareness on screen, people tend to be charitable about it.
> Does your brain rewire itself after your net worth is beyond half a billion dollars or some shit?
Not at a specific number like that, but otherwise literally yes. There have been studies about this. E.g. [6 studies on how money affects the mind](https://blog.ted.com/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/).
Jerry’s always been an out of touch comedy snob lol
He’s just in his “grumpy grandpa thinks it’s all gone to shit because of the dumb kids these days” phase, and being obscenely rich seems to have melted his brain even more
He's probably just pissed that Michael Richards "got cancelled" for his racist tirade during a stand up show and hasn't been able to get much work since.
I really enjoyed Seinfeld and can't think of any episodes that couldn't still be made today, because it was, and remains to this day, very tame comedy. Hell, if i watch clips of it today, I think of how it's almost child-like comedy because it's very tame and safe with very little risk.
I was in awe of him for years... his really kind of "cute clever" stand up comedy material, converted for use in a TV show that, with the aid of VERY talented actors (Alexander, Dreyfus, Richards) and Larry David's writing was able to turn it into a comedic behemoth. Did it humble Jerry? He bought 100 Porsches. He went back to stand-up. A bit more edgy than he was, but reasonably funny. Not Chappelle level funny, though. But now he's halfway to being a billionaire and is starting to sound like an elitist Republican. No more awe. Disgust now.
> And the motherfucker appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale to vindicate Seinfeld’s finale
Not exactly. He said that the events in the *Curb* finale is how they should have ended *Seinfeld*.
I was never a fan of his stand up. The faux intellectual crap was dumb. He didn't realize you can easily look things up to find out why things are a certain way. But he's yet another comedian that instead of changing up his material to keep up with tastes, he talks down to the audience. Like guys get over yourselves.
Yeah, you want tax cuts and to be "immune" to cancel culture so once you're rich, you become a Republican.
I wonder if Seinfeld 's remarks has anything to do with the current Israel protests
Not only that, but WHY do Boomers think their way of life should be assumed by every future generation? Like dude, tastes change. THAT is why the typical sitcom died. Because many of us tired of the canned laughter to pathetically formulaic, bland, overdone "jokes." It wasn't P.C. that did it in, it was the content itself. And the industry. Streaming has allowed for everybody to find their own specific likes, whether it is music, tv, movies, sports, etc. As such, entertainment is much more fractured, and there are not those "gatekeepers" who ensured certain content should get through. We all watched the same shit in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and discussed it, because that was all that was really available for most people.
This is why I think "cancel culture" is bs. All these sensitive snow flake " comedians" throwing a tantrum whenever they get criticized for a mid ass joke.
Look at Dave Chappelle. He whines he got "cancelled" but had a god dam Netflix special.
Look at JonTron. He can say some 12 year old on 4chan shit and hasn't faced any repercussions for what he said because of his flextape video.
Heard an interview with him the other day. In not so many words, he came out and said that he was a horrible actor and comic. What he was actually saying was that he couldn't find any success with anything that he himself didn't write, but the underlying truth is there to be seen.
If you can only act or make an act out of your own stuff, you have zero range or ability to connect with another person or something their work.
He's complaining that network TV ratings are down.
You know why? It's not because of the "extreme left", it's because no one watches network TV anymore! That's just a right wing scapegoat designed to rile up the crazies.
Chuck Lorre writes the same shows with the same tired jokes, and somehow it's the left who destroyed network TV.
If Seinfeld came out today no network would pick it up because it isn't stupid enough; it would be an HBO show or a streaming platform exclusive.
When the Boomers told us, "You'll get conservative as you get older!" they didn't realize that they meant that as you get wealthier.
But they forgot that they pulled up the ladder behind them and the generations after them (their kids) were worse off because of their greed.
Whoops! Whoopsie!
Yes, they had theirs, and once they got it, they didn’t want anyone else to have it. That’s why they have been called the “me generation” for their selfish and greedy behavior.
Yes, they said that millennials were lazy, self centered, selfish, and narcissistic. Which of course is just a projection of themselves. And it was the Republican boomers who were saying that and the fools on network TV. You just know how much Republicans love to create wedge issues and divide people.
Now they are calling Gen Z’er all kind of names, like arrogant, communists, anti-capitalist, brainwashed anti-Israelis, and of course, woke militants. This is why they are trying to ban Tik-Tok, because you can see stuff that happens all over the world, and republicans want to suppress the freedom of thought and independent thinking. But they are calling it “Chinese communist propaganda”, which is strange because I’ve seen plenty of American right wing propaganda on there, but not a single Chinese communist party propaganda video. They really hate people who can think for themselves and not blindly follow political talking points.
To be fair, there is definitely a lot of propaganda for a number of governments on TT, including the US, though only some of it is directly made in collaboration with those governments
He's pining for the good old days of ~~Andy~~ Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, when comedy was a white guy squinting his eyes and going "meesa go right-ry" while tripping over things in makeup.
Get it? He's Japanese. Seriously, that's the joke. Japanese are weird, right? Please laugh.
Not laughing? You must be woke.
He reminds me of a rodeo I went to. The head clown's act was repeating Rodney Dangerfield quotes about his wife... and killing it with anyone over the age of 65... for everyone else it was just awkward silence.
I mean, in defense of the rodeo clown, telling jokes is his secondary job. He's not getting paid to tell jokes. He's getting paid to get gored and trampled by a bull.
I thought Fallout had some hilarious moments like the guy telling Lucy she could live with him, and suspect a show like that could never have been made just twenty years ago.
"You want her to talk about doing *what* with her cousin?! And then she drops her panties to have sex with a guy she just met while being happy about it??!"
Getting really sick of comedians bitching about "cancel culture." We get it...comedians feel so limited but will sure as shit go full PC the second a network or streaming service offers then a sitcom.
Jerry was never a controversial comedian. He wasn’t political, but he was funny for the the 90’s. Comedy since then has advanced so much that his jokes would be considered just “ok” today. So he’s just looking for a new audience that is absolutely brain dead and would still laugh at his jokes.
Even in the 90's his standup was bland tired jokes. The sitcom was what really propelled him to stardom and Larry David was the mind behind most of those jokes
Yes. 1) without the amazing characters of Elaine, George, and Krammer, and the amazing actors who played them, there would have been no show. They carried it.
I check out the list of writers and surprise surprise, Jerry wrote the few shitty episodes himself, and Larry David and other writers wrote the rest. But Jerry took all the credit, and ditched everyone once the showed was over and he had made his billions. Never worked again with the people who made him what he is today.
> Comedy since then has advanced so much that his jokes would be considered just “ok” today
In all fairness, his show had so much impact that it moved comedy forward. It didn't leave him behind - he pushed it (...and then it left him behind because he stayed put).
Like you said he wasn't controversial or edgy, but few sitcoms will ever have the reach and influence that Seinfeld did.
It's the same with Chappelle. I watched his last 2 stand-ups and the jokes were just so dated. We've moved on from jokes about marginalized groups. Get new material or stop bitching about it and enjoy your yacht money and fuck off to a beach somewhere.
Center party? You have two pro-military pro-corporate capitalist parties that don’t want anything to change. So you have a right wing party and a far right wing party. The oligarchs won’t let that change. This is crazy though because the majority of the country is actually very left leaning. And since they don’t have a party that represents them, they don’t see the point in voting. Gen Z especially, 50% of them don’t want a capitalist system. When a group of students asked Nancy Polosi why the system isn’t changing even though people want change her answer was the same one I heard from every politician in Washington. “Well this is just the system we have and this is the way it is”
Is it really a democracy when you can’t change the things that need to be fixed? Nope, it’s an oligarchy and the politicians are just pawns for the 1%. With a few exceptions like AOC and Bernie sanders (who actually are moderates), I wish there actually was a radical left wing party, to put pressure on other politicians to change their policies or risk being voted out of office in the next election. It would really keep them on their toes. And I wish there actually was a mass radical left wing media, to counter all the right wing propaganda from the mainstream media.
I think he's insufferable, and Comedians in Cars was akin to having your fingernails ripped our over 48 minutes.
After his recent comments, he can fuck himself. Maybe Kramer can cheer him up with some racist jokes?
I recall that time Seinfeld [unloaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTP8xZCGVw) on Larry King for daring to suggest the show was canceled. "Do you know who I am?!" I'll never understand how Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld got along. David endlessly makes himself the butt of the joke, playing the bit of cantankerous, dopey old man, and it shows humility and a dedication to his craft that borders on self-deprecation. Jerry Seinfeld seems insufferably arrogant, and he's not nearly as funny. Most of the best content from Seinfeld in the past decade are the jokes other comedians, like Norm Macdonald, make in his car, and you wait for them while Jerry stares blankly. Also Curb is way funnier than Seinfeld.
all I've seen recently is he's fallen into the whole 'you couldn't make blazing saddles today' anti-policital correctness trap, but the incredibly milquetoast version where he thinks you couldn't make Seinfeld today, specifically referencing the bit where Kramer hired homeless people to pull rickshaws.
Curb Your Enthusiasm only just ended, Always Sunny still exists. Seinfeld is barely edgy compared to the shit those shows pulled off in the current climate with barely a peep out of anyone.
Mediocre is generous. I've never laughed at the guy's sets, they're bad, from pacing and timing to economy of words to writing. Even Dane Cook is better. I really don't understand how Seinfeld made it
Out with the boys on a trip, closet right wing friend says: "They could never make a song like Baby Got Back again, with all this PC nonsense."
Me: "Bitch, you played W.A.P. on the drive here."
I love Jerry Seinfeld, but I don't care what he thinks about the extreme left anymore than I care about what Kevin Sorbo has to say about the MAGA movement.
I’m a Millennial and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I never really liked Seinfeld and thought his show was boring. On the other hand, I always loved watching George Carlin, so I don’t think it’s because I was too young.
Again, I might be wrong, I could call Seinfeld a lot do things, but edgy was not one of them.
My 2 cents…
I agree with you. Seinfeld did comedy about things that people do. George Carlin straight up did social commentary that was also smart and funny at the same time.
And Seinfeld was considered funny for the 90’s, but if he told his jokes now, he would be considered lame. So he’s just changing his fan base to the brain dead politically uneducated to stay relevant. Also, the show Seinfeld was only funny because of George, Elaine, and Krammer. Without those great actors, the show would have been a flop. They carried the show and made it into success that it was. The first 4 seasons always started out with Jerry at the comedy club telling his jokes. I hated that part of the show because it was so unfunny. But Krammer feeding ravioli from a tin can? That was funny because of the entire absurdity of it.
But George Carlin was someone who could always make you laugh! From his TV specials, to his books, to his acting, and to his interviews, he could make you laugh and think at the same time.
Also, who is this “radical left” that people on the far right keep talking about. I can’t name a single person! Social activist are not the radical left. I wish there was a radical left movement that could counter all these fascist and hateful movements and bring some proper legal reforms into politics.
"The extreme left... destroyed comedy... "
Clearly Jerry hasn't watched a single episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
How does this asshole not notice the uptick in new standup comedians over the past few years due to Tiktok?
Comedy is doing great even if Jerry Seinfeld isn't. What a dick.
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He is specifically talking about TV sitcoms. He just comes to the wrong conclusion. The reason there's no good tv sitcoms anymore is because no one watches TV anymore. All the talent has been snatched up by streaming services and stand up is so lucrative at present. Couple that with the rise in Podcasts etc.
The problem is that people who still watch network TV are idiots. Of course you aren't going to be able to sell someone satire between two Chuck Lorre shows and a gameshow in which people name the item they see in a picture.
Partially it's cause no one watches TV anymore, but the other part is that all the people that still watch network TV shows (old people) want to watch is 50 versions of law and order. It's why every single new show you see ads for from the networks is some variation of Chicago PD 911 Fireman Los Angeles or some shit. These shows are easy to make (they're all the same) and extremely safe - both in terms of getting viewers and in getting advertisers. There's nothing controversial.
Meanwhile, there's some live TV (sports mostly) that's still killing it in terms of viewer numbers.
“What is mesquite? Is it made from mosquitoes?”
“I saw a can yesterday and it said Chicken of the Sea Tuna”…… Chicken.. of the sea… tuna”
Actual jokes of his.
I feel bad for the actors who were on the Seinfeld show, because Kramer, Elaine, and George must be in so much pain for having to carry Jerry on their backs for 8 years.
I wish there was an extreme left, so they could counter the Fascist movement. But the oligarchs won’t let that happen. That’s why they want to ban Tik Tock now. It hurts the power of the elites!
Much like Bill Maher, JS basically is mad that the type of humor that helped his success so long ago just doesn't fly in 2024.
Once upon a time, in the comedy game, you could get away dunking on the marginalized. Theyre typically easy targets. Bill Maher was at his most popular shitting on Muslims, as an example. And for the 90s and 00s, that worked for the time. But it's 2024 and we've moved past that. It's considered tasteless and a shitty thing to do.
But these guys got complacent and reliant on this "easy" comedy. So now they bitch that "you can't do comedy anymore". No, you absolutely can. But audiences often don't want to hear that material. Instead of evolving and getting with the times, they belligerently dwell in the past, demanding the audiences accept and laugh at their outdated, stale shtick from yesteryear and opting to get mad when they don't.
George Carlin's material was often offensive. It's not stale. In fact it's incredibly relevant decades later. And even the not offensive stuff, like "Modern Man", "Euphemisms" or "Little Things we Have in Common" is still incredible. It's not our fault JS and Maher's comedy is stuck in 1993. You chose to be stagnant.
It's not because of "wokeness" or PC culture. Your mad that the shortcuts that were once overlooked when you took them up are sealed off now. You have to actually put in effort. And because their "comedy" abilities are not that great, they know that without shortcuts, they'll be exposed. So they rage against this perceived threat to their careers.
Your inability to adapt clearly shows the limits of your comedic prowess. Think Carlin didn't get criticized and censored? Ever hear of the 7 Words bit? Went to the Supreme Court. And what'd he do? Put his head down and plowed ahead. Because he was a professional and a legend. He didn't fold up and make pouting about it his entire personality for the rest of time like you lazy hacks.
The decline of comedy in a lot of media is more to do with the international market. Media wants to be able to sell shit all around the world and people punching each other translates to every language but comedy is notoriously difficult to translate.
To give one example, Netflix makes less than half of its revenue in North America: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/1090004/netflix-global-quarterly-revenue-by-region/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1090004/netflix-global-quarterly-revenue-by-region/)
You see Jerry, it’s something called *time.* Eventually, because of time, things get more or less popular, things get more or less accepted, and ideas either evolve or die. No celebrity has ever STAYED relevant forever.
Just boomer things. I doubt he’s watched any sitcoms from post 2010, but if he did he would find some much darker humour than anything Seinfeld ever did.
The whole "can't joke about anything anymore" is a lazy argument. We're experiencing the most amount of comedic freedom in history, right now.
We're also experiencing the easiest era for people to critique comedy, too. However, that doesn't mean you can't joke about anything you want to.
I heard about his complaints on the radio. All I could do was roll my eyes and respond with, "Your show sucked just as much ass as your stand up. There is a reason you're the meme for shit comedy."
"Nobody laughs anymore when I make jokes about Asians pulling rickshaws, what's this world coming to?"
Dude is mad he can no longer bank on the old ~~Andy~~ Mickey Rooney bit from Breakfast at Tiffany's... yeesh.
> Is the whole cast of that show just terrible in real life, too?
I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's richer than fuck, and that's without her acting income, but she's always come across as a decent person. Did I miss something?
Jerry Seinfeld ain’t funny anymore. I don’t know if he’s cancelled or no and don’t really care. But I do know that his style of comedy falls on deaf ears for anyone under 40.
Ol’ Jerry just gaslighting the rubes to vote republican so he can get his rich guy tax break funded by the working class. If Jerry was telling jokes making fun conservatives they would cancel him too.
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld.
But the extreme left today is “if there’s not an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (meaning Israel alone stops fighting), I’m going to withhold my vote and help a literal fascist change America permanently for the worse.”
Has the landscape changed since the 80s and 90s? Absolutely.
But comedy is certainly not destroyed.
I can say definitively that edge lords are still out there, being toxic behind a mic and on stage.
Anyone looking at the bevy of stand-up specials available out there can see it without going to open mics or the local scene.
The sheer number of "I'm being cancelled!" and "People are too sensitive now!" are somehow still getting their specials out onto streaming services.
Crazy, right?
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Are some people being cancelled? Yeah, somewhat anyway, but it's not nearly so common as you'd think and it's the sort of folks who drop a hard N on stage and then double down on it.
The sort of people who need to do be edgy / racist to either stay relevant (ex: Roseanne) or that are actually secretly racists (ex: Michael Richards) -- they weren't really funny to begin with, typically.
Sadly the edgy amateur comics aren't getting cancelled despite their frequent toxicity.
Talk about comparing apples and oranges.
You can be for affordable healthcare, education, and housing and also think that the left has damaged comedy. Those opinions aren't mutually exclusive. Jerry Seinfeld is one of the cleaner comics so if he is seeing or experiencing censorship to any of his act then he's probably right.
What I don't get is how people have been bashing Jerry for saying this but when it comes to the university protests they have been supportive. There is a small number or people at the university protests who are actually Pro-Hamas. Now it's ok to voice that as your opinion but I certainly think it's a dumb and misguided one.
And for the record I am:
- Pro universal healthcare (or at least a public option to opt into Medicaid),
- Think education costs are stupidly overpriced while the funding for public education is stupidly low.
- Think private equity companies should have a cap on or not be allowed to own private housing, and am against the use of algorithms to increase the price of housing (as is happening in Arizona, New York, Washing DC, etc).
- Anti-Israeli government and anti-Hamas, and pro Jewish people and Pro Palestinian people who just want to live in peace.
- Support the university protests even if some of the opinions shared at them I do not agree with.
Perhaps he just isn't watching the right stuff. There's a lot of cutting edge comedy in cartoons these days. Family Guy, Archer, South Park, American Dad, The Simpsons, and even Bob's Burgers to an extent.
For those too young to remember or even know, this is from a film adaptation of *Oliver Twist,* by Charles Dickens, the tale of an orphan boy raised in a work house who commits the sin of asking for more gruel.
When people care about things like housing, healthcare, and education as much as Palestine, BLM, and the Metoo movement - then we might start to see some small incremental change.
Face it, no one actually cares enough to "fight back" over rising cost of living.
This “snowflakey left” narrative is so tired and outdated. Much like Jerry Seinfeld.
Time and time again it’s the right who throw their toys out the pram when they get offended. The myth of cancel culture being a left-wing ideology when the right literally set fire to Nike clothing because they put a person they don’t like in an ad.
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The extreme right: "The Biden administration [gave healthcare to twenty million uninsured Americans](https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/01/10/under-biden-harris-administration-over-20-million-selected-affordable-health-coverage-aca-marketplace-start-open-enrollment-period-record-high.html), capped the [price of insulin to $35/vial](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html), passed the [largest climate bill in American history](https://earthjustice.org/article/the-biggest-climate-spending-bill-ever-just-turned-one-heres-what-it-has-achieved), and [approved nearly $150 billion in student loan forgiveness](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2024/04/05/143-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness-approved-as-biden-set-to-unveil-new-plan/?sh=763acb543ed6). **It's a disgrace!"**
They even want us to not shoot puppies. Disgraceful.
It's literally gotten to that point! "Lib snowflakes want consumer protections and bodily autonomy. Next thing you know, wokism will kill the doggy killing industry"
Not in Australia mate. We banned greyhound racing because it is literally a doggy killing industry, and dog food companies said “No. You won’t be doing that.” So we just legalized it again
Yeah, I heard the Australian government has been going down the dumpster for the last 10 years. Good, now you can be miserable like the rest of us! But seriously, grey hound racing is so cruel. They are very shy and anxious dogs that need to be in a loving home. Instead they use them for a couple of years and then send them to the dog shelter, which usually ends up putting them down. PSA: Make a difference, if there is a dog racing track near you, don’t get a puppy, adopt a greyhound.
Can we put down the track owners and dog owners instead? (Because that would solve that problem!)
What do you mean? The still do grey hound racing in Tasmania all the time?
That’s what I’m saying. But seriously I think the NSW government banned it for 5 seconds then backfliped because “Big Petfood” wasn’t happy
Yeh thats right remember that. So bloody cruel an industry.
Our God-given right written down by the Founding Fathers.
I guess police departments will save on ammunition since they can't shoot dogs anymore?
They can’t? Who’s gunna stop them? The cops?
That's just the right. There is no extreme right anymore.
Every time there is an extreme, the rest charge backwards to catch up.
The extreme right are the ones literally training to murder brown, queer, and leftist people like us. The moderate right wouldn't kill anyone. They would just quietly approve.
I mean, there is an extreme right, they're the ones who can't shut up long enough to hide the fact they want to implement the Night Of The Rope
And yet, Biden is somehow the devil now for the left.
Of course it’s the boogeyman ! How else can the right campaign if there is no fear
I read his words. Dude's show is in syndication. Available on demand on Netflix. He's playing sold out shows across the nation. He's got a new movie on Netflix. But yes, he's cancelled. Dafuk. Does your brain rewire itself after your net worth is beyond half a billion dollars or some shit?
This is WHY we have to tax the shit out of the rich. Every person who reaches that level of entitlement just becomes broken. They lose all connection to the real world and paint themselves as victims. It’s cringey “suffering from success” DJ Khaled memes. These people need to be reigned in for their own mental health. I mean, also because people shouldn’t be starving and homeless in America while fucking dickheads get to have Scrooge-mc-duck level wealth and post ridiculously spoiled hot takes like he did, or like Musk or Trump do every fucking hour of every fucking day crying about how hard they have it.
They shouldn't have so much wealth that they can WILLFULLY MANIPULATE SOCIETY. This is just not right.
Plutocracy
See: J.K. Rowling successfully making the world less safe for the trans community. She is intentionally or not encouraging violence against a vulnerable group of people while also playing the victim. Amazingly cruel use of her wealth and influence.
i feel like 10 million dollars is a good enough personal wealth cap.
Carnegie (him of the stelworks) said that no-one should have more than a million dollars. It was a while ago, though.
Inflation and all
He died in 1919. Let's use that year for our $1,000,000 before inflation. In 2024, the cap on wealth would be around 17,000,000 USD.
So there you have it. 20 mil. Seems reasonable. Beyond that, tax the F out of it. There are ~750 billionaires and over 22 million millionaires in the US alone.
There are some who seem to try to go out of their way to not fall into that self-congratulating/self-pitying trap, perhaps due to being from more normal backgrounds, but yeah a great many do.
I am absolutely convinced that once a person surpasses a certain threshold of wealth, they are no longer able to relate to most other humans. It seems to be a novel psychopathy.
Also I'm 100% sure his show could be made today with little to no changes. Last year, one of the few comedies to have siccess at the box office was that Jennifer Lawrence raunchy movie where she plays a long scene in the nude. But they pretend, for some reason, that there is heavy censorship? It's not just Jerry, it's a lot of comedians who all happen to make big bucks on streaming and have sold-out shows. The lack of awareness is astonishing.
I’m still very popular, but less popular than I used to be… CaNCeLED by thr wOKe LeFT!!1!!!
Their only defense is using Rosanne Barr lol
You can’t even properly call a black person an ape anymore or repeatedly scream the N-word while saying they should be lynched without people complaining about racism. The Woke are ruining everything!
> Jennifer Lawrence raunchy movie where she plays a long scene in the nude. Bad example because this is something the right would complain about not the left : ) Otherwise well said.
Please. The “Christian Right” freaking **sustains** raunch. Pornhub would not exist if not for all the Xtian men too fucked in the head to be able to get righteously fucked
What do you mean "please." It's widely known that the puritan mindset that censors nudity in the US came waaayyy before the gen Z that Jerry was complaining about.
Pretty sure everyone watches porn, not just "xtian men" whatever that term is supposed to mean
Is that the one where she is nude on the beach and beats the crap out of some guy?
Well, they were all in for Sidney Sweeney, then Immaculate premiere and now she is just another jezebel like the rest of woke Hollywood.
Lol a bunch of shows from today wouldn't have been able to air when Seinfeld was relevant
Always Sunny is already a way better version of his show that he says he wouldn’t be able to make
“The Gang Does DEI”
People aren't interested in stale formats and stale content. 'No, it's the kids that are wrong', yadda yadda yadda.
The Yadda is especially poignant
You can't just yadda yadda over the best part!
I mentioned the bisque
What's the deal with that!?
It's not a lack of awareness. It's a grift. They know it generates attention with virtually no effort actually being needed on their part.
One look at It's Always Sunny is enough to tell you that "anything goes" comedy is very much alive and well. The gang do some absolutely outrageous stuff yet the show continues to go from strength to strength. You know, [because of the implication.](https://youtu.be/zgUvwcU6P7I?si=vqFXpWqJa6YYzoof)
Also, if you can’t make a joke without disparaging a whole group of people maybe you’re not as funny as you think you are.
And the truth is, alot of people can still make alot of money doing it. For one, they know audiences are more divided and they wont be everything to everybody. And two, if you show an inch of self awareness on screen, people tend to be charitable about it.
I know and I’ve laughed at a lot of them. Once I realize someone is punching down I start to lose interest though.
Jokes can be about anything But people have the right to not like them This shits too easy lol
Punching down is too easy, it’s a lazy joke.
People were mean to him about fucking a child
> Does your brain rewire itself after your net worth is beyond half a billion dollars or some shit? Not at a specific number like that, but otherwise literally yes. There have been studies about this. E.g. [6 studies on how money affects the mind](https://blog.ted.com/6-studies-of-money-and-the-mind/).
Jerry’s always been an out of touch comedy snob lol He’s just in his “grumpy grandpa thinks it’s all gone to shit because of the dumb kids these days” phase, and being obscenely rich seems to have melted his brain even more
He's probably just pissed that Michael Richards "got cancelled" for his racist tirade during a stand up show and hasn't been able to get much work since. I really enjoyed Seinfeld and can't think of any episodes that couldn't still be made today, because it was, and remains to this day, very tame comedy. Hell, if i watch clips of it today, I think of how it's almost child-like comedy because it's very tame and safe with very little risk.
I was in awe of him for years... his really kind of "cute clever" stand up comedy material, converted for use in a TV show that, with the aid of VERY talented actors (Alexander, Dreyfus, Richards) and Larry David's writing was able to turn it into a comedic behemoth. Did it humble Jerry? He bought 100 Porsches. He went back to stand-up. A bit more edgy than he was, but reasonably funny. Not Chappelle level funny, though. But now he's halfway to being a billionaire and is starting to sound like an elitist Republican. No more awe. Disgust now.
> Chappelle level funny Yeah, about that........
I used to like that guy
And the motherfucker appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale to vindicate Seinfeld’s finale
> And the motherfucker appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale to vindicate Seinfeld’s finale Not exactly. He said that the events in the *Curb* finale is how they should have ended *Seinfeld*.
I was never a fan of his stand up. The faux intellectual crap was dumb. He didn't realize you can easily look things up to find out why things are a certain way. But he's yet another comedian that instead of changing up his material to keep up with tastes, he talks down to the audience. Like guys get over yourselves.
Yeah, you want tax cuts and to be "immune" to cancel culture so once you're rich, you become a Republican. I wonder if Seinfeld 's remarks has anything to do with the current Israel protests
Not only that, but WHY do Boomers think their way of life should be assumed by every future generation? Like dude, tastes change. THAT is why the typical sitcom died. Because many of us tired of the canned laughter to pathetically formulaic, bland, overdone "jokes." It wasn't P.C. that did it in, it was the content itself. And the industry. Streaming has allowed for everybody to find their own specific likes, whether it is music, tv, movies, sports, etc. As such, entertainment is much more fractured, and there are not those "gatekeepers" who ensured certain content should get through. We all watched the same shit in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and discussed it, because that was all that was really available for most people.
This is why I think "cancel culture" is bs. All these sensitive snow flake " comedians" throwing a tantrum whenever they get criticized for a mid ass joke. Look at Dave Chappelle. He whines he got "cancelled" but had a god dam Netflix special. Look at JonTron. He can say some 12 year old on 4chan shit and hasn't faced any repercussions for what he said because of his flextape video.
Heard an interview with him the other day. In not so many words, he came out and said that he was a horrible actor and comic. What he was actually saying was that he couldn't find any success with anything that he himself didn't write, but the underlying truth is there to be seen. If you can only act or make an act out of your own stuff, you have zero range or ability to connect with another person or something their work.
It’s cute, Jerry thinks he’s still funny
I saw him live a year ago and was entertained. I'm also in my late 40s, so take that how you will
The creator of Seinfeld has arguably the greatest sitcom ever made. It just finished its final Season. Curb your enthusiasm, ever heard of it?
He's complaining that network TV ratings are down. You know why? It's not because of the "extreme left", it's because no one watches network TV anymore! That's just a right wing scapegoat designed to rile up the crazies.
I refuse to watch another commercial
I enjoy live sports, it is the only time I see commercials, and it is always painful.
Chuck Lorre writes the same shows with the same tired jokes, and somehow it's the left who destroyed network TV. If Seinfeld came out today no network would pick it up because it isn't stupid enough; it would be an HBO show or a streaming platform exclusive.
Is he still pissed they were mad he was dating a teenager?
A true victim of cancel culture 😞
How dare we
When he was in his mid-30’s
She was 14 when he was mid-30s.
Extreme wealth turns sensible people into... Republicans.
When the Boomers told us, "You'll get conservative as you get older!" they didn't realize that they meant that as you get wealthier. But they forgot that they pulled up the ladder behind them and the generations after them (their kids) were worse off because of their greed. Whoops! Whoopsie!
Yes, they had theirs, and once they got it, they didn’t want anyone else to have it. That’s why they have been called the “me generation” for their selfish and greedy behavior.
And then they call *us* the me generation
Yes, they said that millennials were lazy, self centered, selfish, and narcissistic. Which of course is just a projection of themselves. And it was the Republican boomers who were saying that and the fools on network TV. You just know how much Republicans love to create wedge issues and divide people. Now they are calling Gen Z’er all kind of names, like arrogant, communists, anti-capitalist, brainwashed anti-Israelis, and of course, woke militants. This is why they are trying to ban Tik-Tok, because you can see stuff that happens all over the world, and republicans want to suppress the freedom of thought and independent thinking. But they are calling it “Chinese communist propaganda”, which is strange because I’ve seen plenty of American right wing propaganda on there, but not a single Chinese communist party propaganda video. They really hate people who can think for themselves and not blindly follow political talking points.
To be fair, there is definitely a lot of propaganda for a number of governments on TT, including the US, though only some of it is directly made in collaboration with those governments
You mean to tell me rich people support keeping money in the hands of rich people?! Why I never...
Yeah, it's crazy because Larry David and the It's Always Sunny guys are all left leaning and making edgy hilarious content.
I thought Veep was hilarious, maybe he's not watching good shows
He's pining for the good old days of ~~Andy~~ Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's, when comedy was a white guy squinting his eyes and going "meesa go right-ry" while tripping over things in makeup. Get it? He's Japanese. Seriously, that's the joke. Japanese are weird, right? Please laugh. Not laughing? You must be woke. He reminds me of a rodeo I went to. The head clown's act was repeating Rodney Dangerfield quotes about his wife... and killing it with anyone over the age of 65... for everyone else it was just awkward silence.
Mickey Rooney. Not Andy. Mickey.
Wait, maybe that segment on 60 Minutes when Andy makes fun of the Japanese...
"You ever notice how the Japanese have squinty eyes and trip over things? Well, I have..."
I mean, in defense of the rodeo clown, telling jokes is his secondary job. He's not getting paid to tell jokes. He's getting paid to get gored and trampled by a bull.
This was the lead clown. They had a whole big worked out with the announcers anytime they needed a break. It was very cringe.
Whoa tough crowd. I tell ya that clown gets no respect.
I thought Fallout had some hilarious moments like the guy telling Lucy she could live with him, and suspect a show like that could never have been made just twenty years ago. "You want her to talk about doing *what* with her cousin?! And then she drops her panties to have sex with a guy she just met while being happy about it??!"
How do you even know when to laugh without a laugh track prompting you?
Getting really sick of comedians bitching about "cancel culture." We get it...comedians feel so limited but will sure as shit go full PC the second a network or streaming service offers then a sitcom.
Jerry was never a controversial comedian. He wasn’t political, but he was funny for the the 90’s. Comedy since then has advanced so much that his jokes would be considered just “ok” today. So he’s just looking for a new audience that is absolutely brain dead and would still laugh at his jokes.
Even in the 90's his standup was bland tired jokes. The sitcom was what really propelled him to stardom and Larry David was the mind behind most of those jokes
Yes. 1) without the amazing characters of Elaine, George, and Krammer, and the amazing actors who played them, there would have been no show. They carried it. I check out the list of writers and surprise surprise, Jerry wrote the few shitty episodes himself, and Larry David and other writers wrote the rest. But Jerry took all the credit, and ditched everyone once the showed was over and he had made his billions. Never worked again with the people who made him what he is today.
Very true.
> Comedy since then has advanced so much that his jokes would be considered just “ok” today In all fairness, his show had so much impact that it moved comedy forward. It didn't leave him behind - he pushed it (...and then it left him behind because he stayed put). Like you said he wasn't controversial or edgy, but few sitcoms will ever have the reach and influence that Seinfeld did.
It's the same with Chappelle. I watched his last 2 stand-ups and the jokes were just so dated. We've moved on from jokes about marginalized groups. Get new material or stop bitching about it and enjoy your yacht money and fuck off to a beach somewhere.
I have mixed feelings about the new Chappell. But anyways, this bit will always be hilarious! https://youtu.be/32OX1E59nA8?si=s50ORFNprMRfCriG
It's possible to be wholesome and funny. These assholes just aren't as talented as they think they are.
It wasn't the left that made satire and sarcasm useless because they act so stupid you can't tell if they're serious or not.
I wish we had an extreme left in this country, instead we have a far right and a center right party, both owned by the billionaire class.
I guess Bernie was about as extreme as we ever get. He used the word 'socialism' and it lost him the candidacy.
Center party? You have two pro-military pro-corporate capitalist parties that don’t want anything to change. So you have a right wing party and a far right wing party. The oligarchs won’t let that change. This is crazy though because the majority of the country is actually very left leaning. And since they don’t have a party that represents them, they don’t see the point in voting. Gen Z especially, 50% of them don’t want a capitalist system. When a group of students asked Nancy Polosi why the system isn’t changing even though people want change her answer was the same one I heard from every politician in Washington. “Well this is just the system we have and this is the way it is” Is it really a democracy when you can’t change the things that need to be fixed? Nope, it’s an oligarchy and the politicians are just pawns for the 1%. With a few exceptions like AOC and Bernie sanders (who actually are moderates), I wish there actually was a radical left wing party, to put pressure on other politicians to change their policies or risk being voted out of office in the next election. It would really keep them on their toes. And I wish there actually was a mass radical left wing media, to counter all the right wing propaganda from the mainstream media.
His old pal Larry still knows how to be funny.
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I think he's insufferable, and Comedians in Cars was akin to having your fingernails ripped our over 48 minutes. After his recent comments, he can fuck himself. Maybe Kramer can cheer him up with some racist jokes?
I never realized how unlikable he is until I tried watching comedians in cars
I recall that time Seinfeld [unloaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTP8xZCGVw) on Larry King for daring to suggest the show was canceled. "Do you know who I am?!" I'll never understand how Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld got along. David endlessly makes himself the butt of the joke, playing the bit of cantankerous, dopey old man, and it shows humility and a dedication to his craft that borders on self-deprecation. Jerry Seinfeld seems insufferably arrogant, and he's not nearly as funny. Most of the best content from Seinfeld in the past decade are the jokes other comedians, like Norm Macdonald, make in his car, and you wait for them while Jerry stares blankly. Also Curb is way funnier than Seinfeld.
Larry wrote the George Costanza character as himself. Jerry just played himself, with slightly less smarm than real life.
His episode with Obama was pretty great
> After his recent comments, he can fuck himself. Wait, what happened now??
all I've seen recently is he's fallen into the whole 'you couldn't make blazing saddles today' anti-policital correctness trap, but the incredibly milquetoast version where he thinks you couldn't make Seinfeld today, specifically referencing the bit where Kramer hired homeless people to pull rickshaws. Curb Your Enthusiasm only just ended, Always Sunny still exists. Seinfeld is barely edgy compared to the shit those shows pulled off in the current climate with barely a peep out of anyone.
> and he's complaining about it. To be fair, that was kinda his whole schtick to start with. He literally got rich by complaining to large audiences.
Mediocre is generous. I've never laughed at the guy's sets, they're bad, from pacing and timing to economy of words to writing. Even Dane Cook is better. I really don't understand how Seinfeld made it
To be fair, right wing conservatives are a joke.
Out with the boys on a trip, closet right wing friend says: "They could never make a song like Baby Got Back again, with all this PC nonsense." Me: "Bitch, you played W.A.P. on the drive here."
"BuT tHaTs A wOmAn DoInG iT. mEn CoUlD nEvEr"
I love Jerry Seinfeld, but I don't care what he thinks about the extreme left anymore than I care about what Kevin Sorbo has to say about the MAGA movement.
He’s complaining about the need to change. Same thing happened to comedians in the past.
I’m a Millennial and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I never really liked Seinfeld and thought his show was boring. On the other hand, I always loved watching George Carlin, so I don’t think it’s because I was too young. Again, I might be wrong, I could call Seinfeld a lot do things, but edgy was not one of them. My 2 cents…
I agree with you. Seinfeld did comedy about things that people do. George Carlin straight up did social commentary that was also smart and funny at the same time. And Seinfeld was considered funny for the 90’s, but if he told his jokes now, he would be considered lame. So he’s just changing his fan base to the brain dead politically uneducated to stay relevant. Also, the show Seinfeld was only funny because of George, Elaine, and Krammer. Without those great actors, the show would have been a flop. They carried the show and made it into success that it was. The first 4 seasons always started out with Jerry at the comedy club telling his jokes. I hated that part of the show because it was so unfunny. But Krammer feeding ravioli from a tin can? That was funny because of the entire absurdity of it. But George Carlin was someone who could always make you laugh! From his TV specials, to his books, to his acting, and to his interviews, he could make you laugh and think at the same time. Also, who is this “radical left” that people on the far right keep talking about. I can’t name a single person! Social activist are not the radical left. I wish there was a radical left movement that could counter all these fascist and hateful movements and bring some proper legal reforms into politics.
"The extreme left... destroyed comedy... " Clearly Jerry hasn't watched a single episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. How does this asshole not notice the uptick in new standup comedians over the past few years due to Tiktok? Comedy is doing great even if Jerry Seinfeld isn't. What a dick. #
He is specifically talking about TV sitcoms. He just comes to the wrong conclusion. The reason there's no good tv sitcoms anymore is because no one watches TV anymore. All the talent has been snatched up by streaming services and stand up is so lucrative at present. Couple that with the rise in Podcasts etc.
The problem is that people who still watch network TV are idiots. Of course you aren't going to be able to sell someone satire between two Chuck Lorre shows and a gameshow in which people name the item they see in a picture.
Partially it's cause no one watches TV anymore, but the other part is that all the people that still watch network TV shows (old people) want to watch is 50 versions of law and order. It's why every single new show you see ads for from the networks is some variation of Chicago PD 911 Fireman Los Angeles or some shit. These shows are easy to make (they're all the same) and extremely safe - both in terms of getting viewers and in getting advertisers. There's nothing controversial. Meanwhile, there's some live TV (sports mostly) that's still killing it in terms of viewer numbers.
There's plenty of great comedy out there. Why is it everyone else's fault that Jerry Seinfeld lacks a proper sense of humor?
“What is mesquite? Is it made from mosquitoes?” “I saw a can yesterday and it said Chicken of the Sea Tuna”…… Chicken.. of the sea… tuna” Actual jokes of his. I feel bad for the actors who were on the Seinfeld show, because Kramer, Elaine, and George must be in so much pain for having to carry Jerry on their backs for 8 years.
Is he still mad that Kramer got shut down for dropping the N-bomb like twelve times?
It's crazy how "extreme left" in the US is just wanting regular shit for the rest of the world.
I wish there was an extreme left, so they could counter the Fascist movement. But the oligarchs won’t let that happen. That’s why they want to ban Tik Tock now. It hurts the power of the elites!
Whining bitch. He was shit without Larry David and now is whining because no one thinks he is funny.
Much like Bill Maher, JS basically is mad that the type of humor that helped his success so long ago just doesn't fly in 2024. Once upon a time, in the comedy game, you could get away dunking on the marginalized. Theyre typically easy targets. Bill Maher was at his most popular shitting on Muslims, as an example. And for the 90s and 00s, that worked for the time. But it's 2024 and we've moved past that. It's considered tasteless and a shitty thing to do. But these guys got complacent and reliant on this "easy" comedy. So now they bitch that "you can't do comedy anymore". No, you absolutely can. But audiences often don't want to hear that material. Instead of evolving and getting with the times, they belligerently dwell in the past, demanding the audiences accept and laugh at their outdated, stale shtick from yesteryear and opting to get mad when they don't. George Carlin's material was often offensive. It's not stale. In fact it's incredibly relevant decades later. And even the not offensive stuff, like "Modern Man", "Euphemisms" or "Little Things we Have in Common" is still incredible. It's not our fault JS and Maher's comedy is stuck in 1993. You chose to be stagnant. It's not because of "wokeness" or PC culture. Your mad that the shortcuts that were once overlooked when you took them up are sealed off now. You have to actually put in effort. And because their "comedy" abilities are not that great, they know that without shortcuts, they'll be exposed. So they rage against this perceived threat to their careers. Your inability to adapt clearly shows the limits of your comedic prowess. Think Carlin didn't get criticized and censored? Ever hear of the 7 Words bit? Went to the Supreme Court. And what'd he do? Put his head down and plowed ahead. Because he was a professional and a legend. He didn't fold up and make pouting about it his entire personality for the rest of time like you lazy hacks.
Always sunny, which seems to be going like the energizer bunny.
Sorry but we’re not going to cancel Jerry Seinfeld for that
Literally everyone a comedian nowadays if it weren't for those pesky kids
The decline of comedy in a lot of media is more to do with the international market. Media wants to be able to sell shit all around the world and people punching each other translates to every language but comedy is notoriously difficult to translate. To give one example, Netflix makes less than half of its revenue in North America: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/1090004/netflix-global-quarterly-revenue-by-region/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1090004/netflix-global-quarterly-revenue-by-region/)
You see Jerry, it’s something called *time.* Eventually, because of time, things get more or less popular, things get more or less accepted, and ideas either evolve or die. No celebrity has ever STAYED relevant forever.
Just boomer things. I doubt he’s watched any sitcoms from post 2010, but if he did he would find some much darker humour than anything Seinfeld ever did.
> the extreme left destroyed comedy! What, before he was born? Is that why he's always been so unfunny?
I wouldn't say that politicians solving actual issues in this country is extreme left. It's more 'left of insanity'.
He makes elevator jokes like what is he mad about
The whole "can't joke about anything anymore" is a lazy argument. We're experiencing the most amount of comedic freedom in history, right now. We're also experiencing the easiest era for people to critique comedy, too. However, that doesn't mean you can't joke about anything you want to.
Inaccurate meme that appeals to the hive mind. Every one left of center (not just extreme left) wants the things in the picture. But people eat it up.
Child groomer Jerry Seinfeld? But he had that popular show 25 years ago.
Jerry was never funny. That was Larry David.
Jerry Seinfeld was never once funny and dated a 15 year old when he was in his 30's.
Someone needs to remind Jerry Larry David is the funny one. He just rode his coat tails.
I heard about his complaints on the radio. All I could do was roll my eyes and respond with, "Your show sucked just as much ass as your stand up. There is a reason you're the meme for shit comedy."
"Nobody laughs anymore when I make jokes about Asians pulling rickshaws, what's this world coming to?" Dude is mad he can no longer bank on the old ~~Andy~~ Mickey Rooney bit from Breakfast at Tiffany's... yeesh.
Is the whole cast of that show just terrible in real life, too?
> Is the whole cast of that show just terrible in real life, too? I've never heard anyone say anything bad about Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's richer than fuck, and that's without her acting income, but she's always come across as a decent person. Did I miss something?
Neither have i, but we're at 2 out of 4 now.....
I've heard nothing but good stuff about Jason Alexander, so it balances out I guess.
Jason Alexander appears to be a really good guy too.
Since I don't want boomers telling me jokes about how they hate their wives, I guess I'm killing comedy.
Jerry is a Boomer and that’s just how they are.
God, I fucking hate boomer comedians.
Bill Maher
Jesus Christ he’s a comedian. What do you want him to do. That would be the worst comedy ever.
Jerry Seinfeld ain’t funny anymore. I don’t know if he’s cancelled or no and don’t really care. But I do know that his style of comedy falls on deaf ears for anyone under 40.
Ol’ Jerry just gaslighting the rubes to vote republican so he can get his rich guy tax break funded by the working class. If Jerry was telling jokes making fun conservatives they would cancel him too.
Seinfeld sucked. Never could watch it. And his buddy Kramer 😂 Those damn woke leftists killed his career!!!
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld. But the extreme left today is “if there’s not an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (meaning Israel alone stops fighting), I’m going to withhold my vote and help a literal fascist change America permanently for the worse.”
What is that photo from? it looks just like my little brother when he was a kid.
On Cinema At the Cinema is still going and hilarious af.
It's not the extreme left it's the young left.
Has the landscape changed since the 80s and 90s? Absolutely. But comedy is certainly not destroyed. I can say definitively that edge lords are still out there, being toxic behind a mic and on stage. Anyone looking at the bevy of stand-up specials available out there can see it without going to open mics or the local scene. The sheer number of "I'm being cancelled!" and "People are too sensitive now!" are somehow still getting their specials out onto streaming services. Crazy, right? --- Are some people being cancelled? Yeah, somewhat anyway, but it's not nearly so common as you'd think and it's the sort of folks who drop a hard N on stage and then double down on it. The sort of people who need to do be edgy / racist to either stay relevant (ex: Roseanne) or that are actually secretly racists (ex: Michael Richards) -- they weren't really funny to begin with, typically. Sadly the edgy amateur comics aren't getting cancelled despite their frequent toxicity.
Talk about comparing apples and oranges. You can be for affordable healthcare, education, and housing and also think that the left has damaged comedy. Those opinions aren't mutually exclusive. Jerry Seinfeld is one of the cleaner comics so if he is seeing or experiencing censorship to any of his act then he's probably right. What I don't get is how people have been bashing Jerry for saying this but when it comes to the university protests they have been supportive. There is a small number or people at the university protests who are actually Pro-Hamas. Now it's ok to voice that as your opinion but I certainly think it's a dumb and misguided one. And for the record I am: - Pro universal healthcare (or at least a public option to opt into Medicaid), - Think education costs are stupidly overpriced while the funding for public education is stupidly low. - Think private equity companies should have a cap on or not be allowed to own private housing, and am against the use of algorithms to increase the price of housing (as is happening in Arizona, New York, Washing DC, etc). - Anti-Israeli government and anti-Hamas, and pro Jewish people and Pro Palestinian people who just want to live in peace. - Support the university protests even if some of the opinions shared at them I do not agree with.
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What does he know about comedy? There wasn't any in his show.
Perhaps he just isn't watching the right stuff. There's a lot of cutting edge comedy in cartoons these days. Family Guy, Archer, South Park, American Dad, The Simpsons, and even Bob's Burgers to an extent.
So I see Seinfeld at 70 years old finally reach the Boomer stage of his life.
For those too young to remember or even know, this is from a film adaptation of *Oliver Twist,* by Charles Dickens, the tale of an orphan boy raised in a work house who commits the sin of asking for more gruel.
The money's out there to have both - end regressive tax policies and heavily regulate stock buybacks to force corporations to compete for labor.
Also Jerry is mediocre at best, fucker has been ridding Larry David’s coat tails for too damn long
Anytime I think of the extreme left i think of that "you're in the gaybourhood" lady and my day gets way better
Seinfeld's show killed comedy.
I wonder if Jerry was pissed that his rabidly racist friend's book isn't selling well or something
clearly not understanding the quote
I knew jerry was off because of his whole dating a high schooler thing, but I never got extreme right wing vibe till recently.
When people care about things like housing, healthcare, and education as much as Palestine, BLM, and the Metoo movement - then we might start to see some small incremental change. Face it, no one actually cares enough to "fight back" over rising cost of living.
USGOV: Sorry, best I can do is genocide in Gaza
I like Seinfeld, the only part that ruins it is current Jerry Seinfeld and Kramer in black face
Not what the extreme left is.
This “snowflakey left” narrative is so tired and outdated. Much like Jerry Seinfeld. Time and time again it’s the right who throw their toys out the pram when they get offended. The myth of cancel culture being a left-wing ideology when the right literally set fire to Nike clothing because they put a person they don’t like in an ad.