Jerry Seinfeld Says TV Comedy Is Being Killed By the ‘Extreme Left and P.C. Crap and People Worrying So Much About Offending Other People’

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/jerry-seinfeld-pc-culture-extreme-left-ruining-tv-comedy-1235985325/

25 comments

  1. Does he have modern examples of this? Just feels like he’s blowing a lot of hot air

  2. “You got a little problem”

    “Oh I got a BIG problem, Jerry!”

  4. Yeah. Must suck being called out for picking up a 17 year old girlfriend when you’re 38. So P.C.

  5. You can’t date 17 years old anymore. What’s up with that!

  6. > “It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, “Cheers” is on. Oh, “MASH” 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 P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

    Ah yes, the wildly non-PC Cheers, MASH, and Mary Tyler Moore.

    And while All In The Family had a non-PC character, it was a rather progressive show that these days would probably be derided as being “woke”.

    To sum up, what is Jerry snorting?

  7. He said this while promoting a Pop Tart movie co-starring Melissa McCarthy, to be clear about what he thinks is funny.

  9. Billionaire doesn’t like being called out by poors.

  10. I thought the new term for “PC” was “woke”, he needs to get with the times

  11. Yup Chappelle, Crawford, Rogan. Totally canceled by being given butt loads of money

  13. Saw Seinfeld live years ago big vegas room he was funny…

    BIL went recently and said the whole show was out of touch comedy by and out of touch comedian

  14. He’s an old man, and an out of touch billionaire, and he’s not even right, I’m just guessing he’s never bothered watching things like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, South Park, or Family Guy, three shows that regularly make jokes nobody would have dared making on tv when Seinfeld was on.

    There’s plenty of tv comedy, he’s just not making any effort to find it I guess. You can argue the network sitcom is dying, sure, but to act like there is no comedy… Jerry, take your old man dial off of NBC and CBS.

  16. Yes cause South Park, its always sunny in philadelphia, family guy are known for being so PC, that’s why they’re still on the air and killing it.

  17. Meanwhile, the wildly popular Curb your Enthusiasm just released it’s finale and 12th total season.

  18. There was nothing in Seinfeld that would get the show canceled today. Or in Friends. Or in Curb Your Enthusiasm which ran for two decades.

  19. *70 year old complains about TV not being like it was 40/50 years ago*

    Might as well be the title. Yeah my 70 something year old dad also complains about things not being the same as it used to be. Then he goes to lay down and take his plethora of pills. Unfortunately Seinfeld gets a stage.

  20. Lol I think people have no idea what the “extreme left” is

  21. Comedians (not just Jerry ) have been complaining about this for years before this whole woke cancel culture thing has come into being

  22. If you really want to know why the multi-cam sitcom is dying/dead, it’s not because of “wokeness” or “PC,” it’s because the suspension of disbelief is dead. Cheesiness can’t be played off as sincere anymore. The world is now jaded, it’s not mysterious anymore. A lot of plots from old sitcoms rely on miscommunication and we can’t have plots like that anymore in this day and age. We’ve only been able to resort to meta comedy and it’s totally replaced the prospect of anything feeling authentic. David Foster Wallace warned us this was coming and being the stupid humans we are, we just point fingers.

  25. IMO, comedy has never been better. Tons of funny content out there for a range of different audiences. Niche comedy finally has crowds big enough to support it without having to appeal to the masses.

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