Comedian Jerry Seinfeld torched liberals and political correctness for killing comedy, especially on television shows.
In his interview with The New Yorker, which was released last Friday, Seinfeld grunted about how political correctness interfered with comedy on TV, which has now led to a decrease in “funny stuff” to watch on air.
“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly and they don’t get it. It used to be you would go home at the end of the day; most people would go, ‘Oh, ‘Cheers’ is on,’ ‘Oh, ‘M*A*S*H’ is on,’ ‘Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on,’ “All in the Family” is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it?” Seinfeld wondered.
The comedian continued blasting off against the left and remarked: “This is the result of the extreme Left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. Now they’re going to see stand-up comics cause we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off-track —we know instantly and we adjust to it instantly —but when you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups, ‘Here’s our thought about this joke,’ well, that’s the end of your comedy.”
Seinfeld also lamented how the 90s sitcom has changed dramatically, saying that the audience wouldn’t get jokes like that on-air.
The comedian quipped that some jokes they wrote on the 1990s show Seinfeld wouldn’t get the same response from audiences today as before.
“We would write a different joke with Kramer and the rickshaw today, we wouldn’t do that joke,” he noted.
“We’d come up with another joke. They moved the gates —like in skiing —the gates are moving. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that wherever they put the gates, I’m going to make the gate.”
In an interview with GQ, Seinfeld also shared his observations on the film industry. As they talked about his debut in feature film directing, the comedian touted the dedication of his collaborators and highlighted how the industry is suffering.
“I thought I had done some cool stuff, but it was nothing like the way these people work. They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea,” he said.
He noted that “film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives.”
He added how most of the people in the industry are going, “Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business.”
“Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?”
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