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Seinfeld says that far left woke mobs have killed comedy. He also dated a 17-year-old. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (37 children)

Far-Right Influencers Celebrate Jerry Seinfeld Once Again Claiming ‘P.C. Crap' Killed Comedy

"It used to be you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on," he said in the interview. "‘Oh, M.A.S.H. 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. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups - ‘Here's our thought about this joke' - well, that's the end of your comedy."

So he picks shows that had some racism in them as justification that we should still have racism around for entertainment purposes?

What an idiot. I’ve heard plenty of comedy that’s funny as hell without being a knuckle dragging buffoon and going after low hanging fruit like racism or making fun of women.

The clown admits he’s just not creative or smart enough to make decent comedy that isn’t easy cheap shots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Also his frame of reference is TV shows that aired at specific times. Few people under 60 watch TV like that anymore. Where is the funny stuff? On the fucking streaming services, YouTube, TikTok, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where is the funny stuff? On the fucking streaming services, YouTube, TikTok, etc.

You may have just made his argument for him. If Ticktok is what passes for comedy today, loud, obnoxious reaction bits from people who think a bad hair day is literal, all delivered in 10 second disposable bytes, yeah nah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First of all, that description tells me you've never used TikTok. I haven't either, and fwiw I'm not a fan of TikTok one bit, but from what I hear coworkers listening to and laughing at that is like a telephone game description of it.

But if tens of thousands of people are laughing with something... Yeah, that's comedy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to use meth to have an informed opinion on it, and dear lord its popularity has no bearing on its value.

but from what I hear coworkers listening to and laughing at that is like a telephone game description of it.

No, it is accurate. The three primary sources of inspiration for TikTok videos seems to be Facebook style outrage bait, black american subculture, and anime, which all rely heavily on zany and sassy and dramatic reactions to shit. Every time someone shows me something, I just have to smile and nod to be polite.

It isn't by accident, either, every social media platform is designed to appeal to the 14-25 demographic, the rest of us are just stuck along for the ride, and you get exactly the maturity and sophistication you'd expect from that design focus. The short format and pressure to grab people in 0.5 seconds before they scroll past aren't helping, either.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get it, you don't like TikTok. Again, neither do I but I'm not making it my personality to shit on what others do like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

This isn't about 'not letting people enjoy things', you straight up equated tiktok with the likes of MASH, one of Seinfeld's examples. But lets just pretend we were arguing about something else.

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