ITT: people commenting about the character of a man they don't know, and his professional success, in retribution for his apology.
... ironically by heckling a man who was likely heckled every day of that career.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most famous and filmed people of all time. There are countless interviews with him, as well as hundreds of hours of his standup/television shows/documentary series. He's a billionaire, a Zionist, probable narcissist, and wildly out of touch with the average American. At this point, we have a decently good idea of the kind of guy he is. His apology only exists because of how out of touch he is. The left is killing comedy? I might look like I'm having a stroke my eyes are rolling so hard. Dude just didn't want to get cancelled.
Suck ass loser. Get fucked Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld can, as we left leaning partygoers love to say, "get fucked and blow it out his ass".
Right, cause people learning from their mistakes is such a horrible thing.
Its a great thing.
It doesn't mean anyone has to immediately forgive him and if he means it, he will have to prove it more than once.
Jerry Seinfeld has never been politically relevant and hasn't suffered in the least because of his Seinfeld residuals.
Bill Hicks (RIP) has never been more relevant.
The dark poet
The preacher
"Look, I was just upset that day because my girlfriend's parents grounded her"
Jerry seinfeld is one of the least funniest people who ever called themselves a comic.
I think he had one or two good lines in the show. but the other three carried that shit like their lives depended on it.
His show was a cultural phenomenon. You've never heard of the least funny comedian. Let's stop the weird Lemmy contrarianism. It makes us look more insanely out of touch than Jerry Seinfeld. (Which is so well known his name is in my auto-correct).
His show was a ~~culyural phenomenon~~ fad. Ftfy
It wasn't funny. I never watched the show. I'm not alone in that either.
He was never funny. Larry David, the guy who wrote the show, was the funny one.
FYI, it was written by both Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld
Yeah and apparently he needed Larry David to be funny cause Jerry Seinfeld is the same guy who wrote Bee Movie and Unfrosted with other Seinfeld writers and we know how that went.
Nah Jerry was never very funny. It turns out it was all Larry David
If you recall, Jerry was literally the least funny person on the entire show.
It was always weird to me that the supposed comedian was the one playing it straight in the show, unless that was a meta joke, I guess.
I like the idea of that being a meta joke, it certainly seems like everyone in Jerry's life is a wacky cartoon character and the "professional comedian" is the normal guy. There are some legitimately funny moments with Jerry over 9 seasons, but a lot of his dialogue is basically "did that just happen?!?" type reactions.
I absolutely loved Seinfeld (the show) and recently saw his stand up in person and it was absolutely terrible, it was actually pretty shocking. He's just so incredibly unrelatable now.
Seinfeld turn to shit the moment Larry David left. Curb made it clear that he carried that show.
I wouldn't say that's contrarianism. I've heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld's comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even. Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn't one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.
I never understood why he would say that to begin with. It's not like his brand of comedy was ever particularly edgy. Obviously the "people are too sensitive these days" thing is stupid, but it felt extra strange coming from him.
Maybe he got accosted by a Gen Z flight attendant about one of his biting air travel observations.
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I agree that comedy is an area that rarely ages well. If you look at the old post 9/11 HBO comedy spots on MAX they are atrociously racist against middle eastern people to the point where I don’t think they should be available or at least should be labeled history and not comedy.
Yeah but Jerry got mad that he wasn't allowed to tell racist, transphobic, and highly political jokes like a year ago. And he got drawn into the MAGA crowd like a tractor beam, being sponsored by out of touch old fogeys and anti-woke propagandists.
I don’t disagree with that
Hey, good for him. I believe firmly in reformation, or reflection and changing your views and it sounds to me like he thought about it and came around, so good.
He's a right-wing bigot. His stances have not changed. He's still a piece of shit, despite his "regrets".
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What does Jerry Seinfeld know about being funny anyway? Wasn’t that Larry David’s job?
I've never understood why he's been placed on such a pedestal. Professionally, he wasn't even among the funniest of his contemporaries. Personally, he's also always been a piece of shit, and I'm not just talking about him being generally rude to others.
I mean Seinfeld was fucking huge. It's hard to overstate how big a hit it was in its time. And he was co-creator, the lead role, and obv his name is the name of the show. How could you not see people putting him up as one of the greats?
I'm not personally the biggest fan of his particular style of comedy, and you can certainly find issue with his personality and behavior over the years, but the man knows how joke structure works. He's an expert in his craft. And you may not think he's as good as some of his contemporaries, but there's no denying he's more of a household name than most if not all of them.
Seinfeld, the show, was remarkable and set a number of expectations that shows today must hit to be even partially successful. It was remarkable. So many modern tropes and memes are directly traced back to Seinfeld.
Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian, was not exceptional in the grand scheme. He is a decent comedian, but without the show, he wouldn't be referred to nearly as much as he is.
There's a difference between the two, and I think a lot of the disagreements are with people equating these two as if they're the same.
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