Jerry Seinfeld gets brutally honest about what ruined comedy television: 'Extreme left and PC crap'



Legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld thinks he knows what ruined television comedies.

Seinfeld — co-creator and star of "Seinfeld," which is regarded as one of the best sitcoms of all time — told the New Yorker in an interview that political correctness and the "extreme left" ruined comedic television.

"Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it," Seinfeld said.

"It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, 'Oh, "Cheers" is on. 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?" he continued.

"This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people," Seinfeld declared.

If progressivism ruined TV comedy, then Seinfeld believes the same forces are behind the renaissance of stand-up comedy.

"Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone," Seinfeld, himself a stand-up comedian, observed. "The audience polices us. We know when we’re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly."

That is the key difference between stand-up comedy and TV, he explained: Whereas a stand-up comedian gets direct feedback from the audience, Hollywood writers, directors, and producers control scripts. And through the production process, someone somewhere is bound to be offended by certain jokes.

The irony, Seinfeld said, is that networks like HBO understand people like the "offensive" material.

"But they’re not smart enough to figure out, 'How do we do this now? Do we take the heat, or just not be funny?'" he explained. "And what they’ve decided to be is, 'Well, we’re not going to do comedies any more.'"

Fortunately, Seinfeld believes there is a "slight movement" away from the PC-heavy culture that has dominated entertainment for the greater part of the past two decades.

"With certain comedians now, people are having fun with them stepping over the line and us all laughing about it," he said. "But, again, it’s the stand-ups that really have the freedom to do it because no one else gets the blame if it doesn’t go down well. He or she can take all the blame themself."

Seinfeld is trying to bring legitimate comedy back to television. His newest film, "Unfrosted," a story about the origins of the Pop-Tart, will e released on May 3.

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Tom Hanks slams campaign to modify classic books to please cancel culture: 'Let me decide what I am offended by'



Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks explained in a new interview that he opposes cancel culture and modern efforts to police content for what some people may deem offensive.

In an interview with BBC, the film legend said he doesn't want the overlords of PC culture to tell him what he should be offended by.

"I'm of the opinion that we're all grown-ups here. And we understand the time and the place and when these things were written. And it's not very hard at all to say: that doesn't quite fly right now, does it?'" Hanks said. "Let's have faith in our own sensibilities here, instead of having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by.

"Let me decide what I am offended by and what I'm not offended by," he declared. "I would be against reading any book from any era that says 'abridged due to modern sensitivities.'"

Hanks was reacting to a movement in publishing to revise classic books that contain language and ideas, though once accepted, now considered offensive by modern, progressive sensibilities. In recent months, so-called sensitivity readers have updated works belonging to Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, and even R.L. Stine.

Anything else?

Hanks is doing press for his debut novel, "The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece."

The book has received mixed reviews. The Sunday Times called it "clunky." The New York Times said it "sags under a deluge of detail." Those are hardly resounding endorsements.

But Hanks told the BBC that he remains unfazed by critics because he believes he is "stronger when it comes down to really being torn apart." Still, Hanks said his book will ultimately "live and die based on its own ability to entertain and enlighten an audience."

The book released on Tuesday.

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Comedian Chris Rock slams  cancel culture, says it breeds 'boring' entertainment: 'People are scared to talk' and 'especially in America'



Comedian Chris Rock says that cancel culture is disrespectful to audiences and is leading to "boring" entertainment across the board.

Rock made the remarks during an interview with "Breakfast Club" hosts Angela Yee and DJ Envy on Monday.

What are the details?

Rock told the hosts that he believes canceling an entertainer will only set the industry and its players up for failure.

"It's weird when you're a comedian because when your audience doesn't laugh, we get the message. Like, you don't have to cancel us." he said. "They're not laughing. Our feelings are hurt. When we do something and people aren't laughing we get it. I don't understand why people feel the need to go beyond that."

The 56-year-old comedian added that the very idea of telling the audience where or how to find humor is disrespectful.

"Honestly to me, it's people disrespecting the audience," he continued. "Like, 'Oh, you think you know more than the audience?' The audience knows more than everybody!"

Rock added that as a result, comedians and entertainers are forced to play it safe and bland out of fears of alienating the general public and saying or doing something offensive.

"What happens is everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything. Things get boring," Rock said. "I see a lot of unfunny comedians, unfunny TV shows, unfunny movies because people are scared to make a move and that's not a good place to be. We should have the right to fail because failure is a part of art."

"It's the ultimate cancel, but now you got a place where people are scared to talk. 'That's not — especially in America — you're scared to talk, but that's what people want, you gotta make adjustments and, you know, let's do it," he added.

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Cartoon Network, which is geared toward children, promotes multiple genders — and gets called out for it



The kid-oriented Cartoon Network posted a tweet earlier this week focusing on "normalizing gender pronouns" and "respecting them."

"Whether you use he/she/them or something else, we acknowledge and LOVE you!" the rest of the tweet said.

Here's to not only normalizing gender pronouns, but respecting them, too 💖 Whether you use he/she/them or something… https://t.co/xS5clavJ2O
— Cartoon Network (@Cartoon Network)1607967623.0

The tweet links to a 20-page "gender justice toolkit" from the National Black Justice Coalition, a self-described "civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS."

The tweet also includes a four-frame cartoon — which includes the Cartoon Network and NBJC logos — and appears to feature children.

"Gender pronouns describe a person's gender identity," one frame's text reads. "Examples of pronouns are she/her, they/them, and ze/zir! A lot of people are learning about gender identity. If you're comfortable, you can share your own pronouns!"

The frame's text also reads, "We can't tell someone's gender just by looking at them, and shouldn't assume we know. There are many gender identities beyond 'girl' or 'boy.' Some people don't identify as any gender."

More from the gender justice toolkit:

Language is often a reflection of culture, and when unchecked, can be used to perpetuate violence and oppression. Words have the power to reinforce stereotypes, marginalize the most vulnerable among us, and support harmful ideas about race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, socioeconomic status, and other factors. Language also has the power to be a revolutionary tool in dismantling existing power structures. Language has the capacity to liberate and empower.

The toolkit indicates that it's "designed to facilitate uncomfortable and, at times, difficult conversations that can save lives."

"This specific toolkit has been designed with the goal of ensuring gender justice in mind, which means ending the violence that black women and girls — both cisgender and transgender, as well as gender non-conforming people — experience simply as a result of who they are and how they exist in the world," the description also said.

What was the reaction to the Cartoon Network's tweet?

The tweet's message certainly carried some left-wing support among commenters — but not everyone agreed with its sentiments:

  • "Stop grooming children," one commenter said.
  • "Can someone explain the 'they/them' pronoun??" another user asked. "That part is confusing. You can transgender into more than one person???"
  • "Identity politics need to stay very very very far away from kids," another commenter said. "And once they arrived, a bit further away still."
  • "I have to say that if you really want to just push children into this sexualization then the only one[s] who will want to watch these will probably be leftist parents who want to brainwash their kids," another user noted. "The only words that I can describe this thing are: dangerous, unnecessary, cringe."

(H/T: FaithWire)