Jerry Seinfeld spoke out against political correctness in comedy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus described his complaints as a “red flag.”
Former Seinfeld stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jerry Seinfeld have made clashing statements on the state of comedy, with Seinfeld speaking out against political correctness and Louis-Dreyfus labeling such complaints as a “red flag.”What Did Jerry Seinfeld Say?
Jerry Seinfeld sparked online discourse when complaining about the current state of comedy in an interview with the New Yorker, blaming political correctness and the “extreme left” for creating a hostile environment where humor cannot flourish.
Seinfeld blamed the decline of TV sitcoms on “people worrying so much about offending other people … that’s the end of your comedy. They move the gates.”
Seinfeld’s assessment of the modern comedy landscape was widely mocked online, not just because he regurgitated a tired talking point, but because Jerry Seinfeld’s stand-up material is famously inoffensive.
Throughout his decades-long career, the comedian has mostly leaned on puns, cracking one-liners like, “What the hell is dry-cleaning fluid? There’s no dry fluids!”
Funnily enough, if Seinfeld’s vision of perpetually offended crowds who only tolerate vanilla “dad jokes” was true to reality, he’d likely be one of the most popular comedians working today.
