Seinfeld has already caused a stir when he predicted that humor would die because of politically correct culture.
This Monday, Jerry Seinfeld retracted his remarks about the “extreme left” destroying comedy, stating that he regrets the words he used because “it’s not true.”
I said that comedy had been stifled by the “extreme left.” Yes, I did say that. “That isn’t accurate,” Seinfeld stated on Tom Papa’s podcast, Breaking Bread.
The creator of Seinfeld told The New Yorker in April that comedians were being harmed by “P.C. crap” from the “extreme left.”
“This is what we think about this joke when you write a script and it passes through four or five different committees, groups, and hands.” “Well, your comedy is over,” he remarked.
Numerous comics contributed to the conversation after Seinfeld’s remarks received a lot of attention. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in Seinfeld, once told The New York Times, “I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing.” It doesn’t follow that all humor is eliminated as a result.
“That literally came as news to me,” Seinfeld said, laughing, as he admitted to Papa this week that he “did not know that people care what comedians say.”
“If you’re Lindsay Vonn, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and she’s going to make the gate,” he continued, expressing regret for his words. Comedy is that. We create the gate regardless of the culture. You are eliminated from the game if you fail to make the gate. The objective of the game is to locate the gate and figure out how to open it so that I can descend the hill.
“Does culture change, and are there things that I used to say that [I can’t because] people are always moving [the gate]?” Seinfeld went on. Yes, but that is the most obvious and large target. Certain terms, whatever they may be, cannot be used in reference to groups. What the heck? To be a comedian, your observational accuracy must be 100 times more precise than that. As a result, I don’t believe that the “extreme left” has hindered the craft of comedy in any way. I’m formally retracting that now.
Seinfeld refuted rumors that he stated he would never perform at colleges due of students’ desire for political correctness in other parts of the podcast. “To begin with, I never said that, but if you believe I did, it is untrue. He remarked, “I play colleges all the time.” “I have no issue performing for children. I recently visited the University of Indiana in Kentucky, where we conducted UT. I frequently visit campuses.
