Jerry Seinfeld is walking back polarizing comments he made to The New Yorker in April while promoting his Netflix movie “Unfrosted.” The comedian went viral for saying TV comedy had been ended by the excessive left and P.C. culture. Seinfeld noticed at the time that “people [are] stressing so much about offfinishing other people” and comedy is suffering as a result.
“When you write a script and it goes into four or five contrastent hands, promisetees, groups—’Here’s our thought about this joke.’ Well, that’s the finish of your comedy,” he inserted.
Seinfeld is now taking those comments back. He euniteed on the tardyst episode of his frifinish and fellow comedian Tom Papa’s “Breaking Bread” podcast and shelp he “laments” blaming P.C. culture for razeing comedy.
“I shelp that the ‘excessive left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not real,” Seinfeld shelp. “It’s not real. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re going to create the gate. That’s comedy. Wantipathyver the culture is, we create the gate. You don’t create the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I create the gate to get down the hill.”
“Does culture alter and are their skinnygs that I use to say that [I can’t because] people are always moving [the gate]? Yes, but that’s the hugegest and easiest aim,” Seinfeld inserted. “You can’t say confident words about groups. So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that fair to be a comedian…So I don’t skinnyk, as I shelp, the ‘excessive left’ has done anyskinnyg to suppress the art of comedy.”
Seinfeld also refuted claims that he once shelp he would never carry out at colleges because the students have become so P.C, saying: “First of all, I never shelp it, but if you skinnyk I shelp it, it’s not real. I join colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids, carry outing for them. I was fair at the University of Indiana. I do colleges all the time.”
After Seinfeld’s innovative comments dropped in April, many other comics were asked about the state of comedy. His lengthytime co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus euniteed on the “On With Kara Sdesireer” podcast and pushed back aobtainst the idea that comedy has in any way suffered due to a changing social landscape that prefers P.C. satisfyed over anyskinnyg impolite.
“There’s a lot of talk about how comics can’t be funny now,” shelp Louis-Dreyfus. “I skinnyk that’s bullshit. Physical comedy and inalertectual comedy and political comedy, I skinnyk, has never been more fascinating, because there’s so much to do.”
Watch Seinfeld’s filled intersee on the “Breaking Bread” podcast in the video below.
