Jerry Seinfeld says the ‘extreme left’ and ‘PC crap’ killed TV comedy
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Jerry Seinfeld said there are certain 'Seinfeld' jokes that he would not be able to write today because TV studios worry too much about offending their audiences.
Jerry Seinfeld isn’t happy about the state of TV comedy.
During a podcast appearance for The New Yorker Radio Hour, Seinfeld didn’t hesitate to share his take on the pitfalls of creating laugh-out-loud TV today.
“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they need it so badly and they don’t get it,” Seinfeld, 70, told The New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick.
The comedian went on to say modern “PC crap” and the “extreme left” have stopped audiences from turning to comedic TV shows like his own former hit sitcom Seinfeld, which ran from 1989 to 1998.
“It used to be, you would get home at the end of the day and most people would say, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. M*A*S*H is on. Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on,'” Seinfeld lamented. “You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it?”
Seinfeld said TV isn’t funny anymore as a “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, there goes your comedy,” he said.
