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Seinfeld slams woke student audiences: “Back when I dated high school girls, they found me hilarious!” (www.thebeaverton.com)
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HOLLYWOOD – With his Netflix comedy film Unfrosted debuting to abysmal reviews, 70-year-old comedian Jerry Seinfeld blames the failure on “extreme left, and PC college campus audiences”, unlike in his heyday, when the teenage girls he dated were fans of his comedy.

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[–] stinerman@midwest.social 36 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The thing about Seinfeld and other comedians who aren't as popular anymore is that they blame the audience for not liking their material. Tastes change over time. The comedian either needs to change their act or live with the consequences that people aren't going to like their material as much.

Rodney Dangerfield was a great comic for his time. If someone tried to tell the same jokes today, I don't think he'd get very far. That's not the fault of the audience. It's the fault of the comedian. No one owes you a laugh.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't mean to undermine the point, which I agree with, but I did see a meme the other day which recycled a Dangerfield joke. (The one in which a girl told him to come over, that there was nobody home.)

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

That was a legit funny joke. Dangerfield’s stuff was pretty good and a lot of it still stands up today because he was usually punching up. His shtick was always “I don’t get no respect” but always because he was schulb not because the others were wrong.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago

Rodney Dangerfield was a great comic for his time. If someone tried to tell the same jokes today, I don't think he'd get very far.

No respect then, no respect now. 😔

[–] BurningRiver 9 points 6 months ago

I’m 45 years old and grew up during the Seinfeld heyday. He wasn’t funny in the 90s and isn’t funny now. George Carlin is someone who made sense in the 70s and made sense until the day he died. Rob Reiner, Mel Brooks - guys I think that are amazing and funny whose work still holds up today. Jerry Seinfeld was a guy who failed upward.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Eyy I don't get noh respect...!"

- "boomers"

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've been hearing about this guy on the radio and how he's complaining about wokeism and the challenges of comedy that has to do it.

Nobody ever found you funny, Jerry. And if you think you were the star of the show named after you? There were more characters better than you on there.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The worst thing I can say about Jerry Seinfeld is that he appeals to the widest American audience.
Like the Big Bang Theory.

Wait, do Lemmites dislike TBBT, sometimes I forget this isn't reddit. It feels more active every day for me it has surpassed reddit. Didn't take long.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm technically not on lemmy but I will enthusiastically throw my vote behind the TBBT-is-shit cause

To be honest though it's still just a shit TV show. There are plenty of those around. It's not woth giving them much thought

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I particularly don't find TBBT to be worse than the average show of its kind.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a meme I just lean into.
Psst, I actually like it, but don't let anyone know.
I'd be arrested and kicked off lemmy.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

I'd have a lot less of an issue with TBBT if people I know didn't expect me to like it because I'm "a nerd" (I wear glasses and know how to use a computer). Also its just not very good.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The show was funny because Larry David is a cantankerous curmudgeon who's afflictions just happen to be a hilarious source of comedy material for him to write with. Also, the strength of Seinfeld's costars let them carry the shows comedic acting and timing.

The show is funny in spite of Seinfeld, not because of him. The fact that he insisted on doing those god-awful stand-up bits on every episode is all the proof you'll ever need about that.

[–] BurningRiver 10 points 6 months ago

Breaking News: guy who started a show “about nothing” 35 years ago is flummoxed that people still don’t find his jokes funny two generations later.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

‘Member when Bobcat Goldthwait did the Montreal Just for Laughs festival in 1994? Every Canadian who had a cable package growing up ‘members.

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Howard Sten made a video back in the day.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's honestly a pretty funny line, I gotta hive him that

[–] TammyTobacco@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's an article from The Onion

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah it seems to be sorta like a Canadian version of The Onion. That's disappointing, would've been funnier if it was real.