Jerry Seinfeld, now 70 years old, is considered one of the main figures in American comedy. He’s had a storied career, and yet he thinks comedy is going in the wrong direction these days.
In conversation with The New Yorker magazine, he talked about how certain episodes of Seinfeld probably wouldn’t be made today. “We did an episode of the show in the nineties where Kramer decides to start a business of getting homeless people to pull rickshaws because, as he says, ‘they’re out anyway’. Do you think I could air that episode today?”, he said.
He then went on to describe what he thinks ruined comedy as it was in the 90s: “This is a result of the far left and the PC crap, and people worry so much about offending other people. Now they go to stand-up comics because we’re not policed by anyone. The public polices us. We know when we’re out of the loop. We know it instantly and we adjust to it instantly. But when you write a script and it goes to four or five different hands, committees, groups, ‘Here’s our thoughts on that joke.’ comedy.”
Do you agree with Seinfeld?
