Jerry Seinfeld on Woke Left Killing Comedy: 'This is the Result of the Extreme Left and PC Crap'

[Gizmo_Duck]

This is trending on twitter. I’m not down with this ‘anti-woke’ shyt buuuuuuuut…we gotta admit stand up comedy and comedy movies and sitcoms are pretty much dead at this point. I can’t remember the last really laugh out loud funny movie or tv show I watched, maybe Dave? Even then those types of shows aren’t even that funny they are like “surrealist” comedies meant to skirt around typical outrage culture.

Even Curb has gotten boring.

"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?"

"This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. 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..."

Whenever comedy dies in a culture, it becomes more vulnerable to extremist movements and social unrest.

Woke authoritarians cannot stand that their absurd ideas are being exposed to ridicule and satire. They have been "educated" at elite schools, and therefore, their ideas "must" be the right ones.

They simply don't understand why Normies think their ideas are ridiculous, and thus, they seek to censor criticism instead of listen to those they deem 'inferior.'

But a society that cannot laugh at itself becomes closed to criticism. That is where the Woke intelligentsia is at in America today and that is why comedy — and the culture at large — is dying.

 

[Neuromancer]

Comedy should be exempt from PC stuff.

Hannah Gadsby is not funny.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Some of it was and never should have been socially acceptable

If you struggle to come up with jokes that don’t offend people, then maybe you weren’t that great of a comedian to begin with.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Comedy should be exempt from PC stuff.

Hannah Gadsby is not funny.

I had to look up who you were talking about and I could already tell this is the fallout of what Seinfeld is talking about

 

[Sauce Dab]

Some of it was and never should have been socially acceptable

Which shows were socially acceptable but now wouldn’t be?

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Jerry ain't done shyt since the 90s. Dude always complaining.

 

[Deltron]

what's the deal with cancel culture and the woke agenda?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

"Woke left" ....uh nah I'm good.

 

[ORDER_66]

He has a billion dollars he can make his own gawddamn tv show tho... it irks me to see rich white men cry when they have tons of resources at their disposal... stop crying like a bytch and do something about it...

 

[chiefdogg]

IN!!!

 

[chiefdogg]

Just went to X to check if he's getting backlash and sure enough they're bringing up him dating a 17 year old when he was 38.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

If you struggle to come up with jokes that don’t offend people,

Can you point to some great modern comedy that doesn’t do this?

 

[Deltron]

Just went to X to check if he's getting backlash and sure enough they're bringing up him dating a 17 year old when he was 38.

it's still insane that was an actual people magazine cover

 

[SupaVillain]

Another dingbat

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Which shows were socially acceptable but now wouldn’t be?

A show like Married with Children would be problematic today with the jokes that Al would constantly use towards Marcy. You could also use it in the case of shows like All in the Family and others during that time because of the rhetoric they used and called it entertainment.

My issue with someone like Jerry and others is that they're constantly always bytching about how comedy used to be instead of acknowledging how problematic it was and accepting how the world works now.