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some_guy ,

Not as many as Harvard, but it’s something.

TigrisMorte ,

I find it funny that everyone assumed they walked out over Gaza, while I assumed it was because Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny.

Psythik ,

I just figured it was cause he’s an egotistical asshole.

TigrisMorte ,

Which coincidentally is the primary reason I've never found him funny. All egotistical assholes I've ever met thought they are hilarious. They are mostly just incredibly cruel and bigoted.

Ultraviolet ,

I thought he was funny playing a petty, egotistical asshole as a character. It became a lot less funny after realizing he’s just like that.

aesthelete ,

Same goes for Ricky Gervais IMO…shout out to Karl Pilkington who genuinely was the funniest part of Derek before he became fatigued with Ricky’s bullshit.

Facebones ,

I kind of liked Gervais at one point, but I realized he was still one of those types, just one I agree with occasionally. So I don’t follow him anymore.

Daft_ish , (edited )

Watching Seinfeld is like watching people endlessly criticize others because they are given license to since they themselves are jokes. Never will you find a heartfelt moment. Never will you see someone reflect on how awful they’ve been to other people.

George trys to but is instantly ridiculed.

Soggy ,

“No hugging, no learning” was a writing rule for the Seinfeld show. The lack of reflection and heartfelt moments is an intentional response to other sitcoms of the era.

Daft_ish ,

Well looking at it in retrospect it’s a monument to assholes.

hanrahan ,
@hanrahan@slrpnk.net avatar

He just followed Cleese in doing that.

Duamerthrax ,

Cleese wears the lampshare well though.

Seinfeld thinks he has important things to say. The show’s Hot Coffee arc and the jabs at the “A dingo ate my baby!” woman didn’t age well.

FarmTaco ,

well i mean, its duke

refalo ,

duke sucks

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

What, and miss the opportunity to throw things at him?

captainlezbian ,

Or organize the crowd to laugh whenever he says something serious but never at anything intended to be funny

GoosLife ,

He would 100% take that as a win

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

Wow. Those protestors are so violent. Call the riot squad!

CaptainSpaceman ,

Anti-semites!¡

paddirn ,

What’s the deal with college kids these days?

CaptainSpaceman ,

Took me a second

FenrirIII ,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

Title of your sex tape.

CaptainSpaceman ,

Not even worth the film.

ShepherdPie ,

Their sex tape was shot with a Polaroid.

nickwitha_k ,

I call mine “A Tale of Two Dissappointments”. Was going for a literary-arthouse vibe. Most of the budget (about $5.13 and a pack of Welch’s-brand fruit snacks) went to wardrobe, leaving little for production (not to mention post-production). It went a surprisingly long way though as the miniature costumes were very light on raw materials and the labor was handled through an unpaid internship given to a student at the local Liberal Arts college that was majoring in Experimental Puppet Theater.

brbposting ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/eacbd5f0-2404-4ef3-95a8-512760ec654a.jpeg

Reddfugee42 ,

The guy who said woke (aka not self centered sociopaths) have ruined comedy even though his partner on Seinfeld has had a wildly successful hit comedy series burning everyone for like eight years?

ours , (edited )

8 years? Try 24 years of Curb your Enthusiasm and it was glorious.

Also Always Sunny in Philadelphia exists and proves Seinfeld wrong as well.

Reddfugee42 ,
  1. Jfc
  2. Absolutely

I forget where I heard it but I’ve never forgotten it: Comedy punches up, bullying punches down. The only people who are afraid of getting canceled are the ones who do the latter.

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

Try 24 years of Curb your Enthusiasm and it was is glorious.

The newest season just ended.

brbposting ,

Last season :’(

Couldn’t recommend more!

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

Last season :’(

He’s been saying that since season 5.

brbposting ,

🤞

Raiderkev ,

The final season was glorious. It’s over now unfortunately.

TubularTittyFrog ,

does anyone under 40 watch Curb?

Reddfugee42 ,

I’m sure you can look up the demographics but I’m not sure how it would change the point

pineapplelover ,

Me. I watch curb and I’m in my 20s

Raiderkev ,

I started watching at like age 20. This is a bad take.

polygon6121 ,

Confusiong riches and fame for brains. Classic mistake

Vej ,

The bee movie guy?

funkless_eck ,

yeah, the guy who dated a 17 year old in his 30s.

Viking_Hippie ,

And the guy whose wife donated more than anyone else to the violent pro-genocide “counter protesters”

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m really not sure what the Duke administration was thinking.

Viking_Hippie ,

They either weren’t considering it at all or considered it a plus. Awful look either way!

brbposting ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/84a40e3e-89be-4066-8fc7-2ab9cb3f1f31.webp

39-year-old Jerry Seinfeld with his 17-year-old girlfriend Shoshanna Lonstein in 1993

IHeartBadCode ,
@IHeartBadCode@kbin.social avatar

Seinfeld has publicly supported Israel following the 7 October Hamas attack, and traveled to a kibbutz in December to meet with hostages’ families

In case you're wondering what the argument is. You should still read the story though.

gregorum ,

Seinfeld has publicly supported Israel following the 7 October Hamas attack, and traveled to a kibbutz in December to meet with hostages’ families. He has been “uncharacteristically vocal” about his support during press calls for his new film, Unfrosted, *The New York Times *reported.

The comedian, who was receiving an honorary degree from Duke, largely stayed away from the issue at the centre of the protests during his speech. At one point, he mentioned his Jewish heritage which was met with applause from the crowd.

“I grew up a Jewish boy from New York,” he said. “That is a privilege if you want to be a comedian.”

Outside Duke’s stadium on the Durham campus, Gaza-supporting students chanted: “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”

A bit more context

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s the biggest part of the reason, but there’s also the fact that he’s been complaining about how the ‘woke left’ has destroyed comedy. That’s not exactly going to endear him to young adults either.

jawa21 ,
@jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Seriously. His recent comments are vile.

Scotty_Trees ,
@Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world avatar

First Kramer got himself cancelled, and now Seinfeld is next! Curse the “woke left” /s

Tier1BuildABear ,
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s not forget he’s literally a fucking pedophile too

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

True, although I don’t know how many graduating students in 2024 would be aware of that part.

SulaymanF ,

17 year olds count?

jj4211 ,

Also, the whole reason he’s complaining about comedy being destroyed is that he hasn’t been relevant in over 25 years. So even ignoring everything, he’s some boring old dude that hasn’t been that relevant the entire life of most of the graduates. They selected someone that the staff might be impressed by, but not someone that is vaguely interesting for the actual graduates.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly. I enjoyed his stand-up comedy back in the 80s and 90s. I enjoyed his sitcom (although that was mostly down to Larry David), but the world has moved on. Comedy evolves. If you can’t evolve with it, you end up being Don Rickles in the world of George Carlin.

some_guy ,

It’s sort of laughable to have him give a commencement speech. Who the hell cares about this old dude.

Daft_ish ,

I like how in his documentary he lays out all his yellow legal pads of material like I’m suppose to be impressed he wrote stuff down.

Wow, dude, you’re so smart.

some_guy ,

Didn’t know he made one, but I don’t expect I’ll watch it.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Notebooks full of material is literally something every standup comedian has (or at least had before the smartphone era). I still have a good dozen out of the dozens I used to have.

refalo ,

when are you going to say something funny then

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

When you go back in time to the 90s, I guess.

ADonkeyBrainedFog , (edited )

Curb Your Enthusiasm is hilarious and modern while the most popular thing Seinfeld has put out since Seinfeld was the Bee Movie. I think that shows where the talent is. Even when Jerry was in Curb, he was awkward as he’s not a great on-your-feet type comedian. All the other members of the Seinfeld cast fit in far better than him.

vaultdweller013 ,

As a 24 year old who spent way too much time watching 90s reruns, Seinfeld was just kinda meh. 3rd rock and married with children were better IMO, also the married with children lingerie scene was my sexual awakening.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Funny, at the time, I thought Seinfeld was better (and more innovative) than either of those. Married With Children was mostly just about being as crass as possible, which has been topped significantly since by shows like South Park and Always Sunny, which broadened their shows to not make it just about “how trashy can we get” and Third Rock… eh. Mostly just weird for weirdness’ sake.

Seinfeld had some pretty decent ideas for a sitcom like the episode taking place entirely while waiting in the restaurant entrance for Chinese take-out or the episode which is entirely set in a parking garage. There just wasn’t TV like that back then.

Vespair ,

Also, the whole reason he’s complaining about comedy being destroyed is that he hasn’t been relevant in over 25 years.

YouTuber MovieBob absolutely nailed it when he said in his recent review of the new stupid Seinfeld movie that at this point going “anti-woke” is just a marketing move for older washed up comedians. Most of them probably don’t even give a shit but it’s vastly easier to pander to the crowd so desperate for any validation of their hateful rhetoric than it is to write new insightful jokes that resonate with a culture you’re quickly aging out of.

Of course none of this is to defend Seinfeld; if anything being a manipulative conman willing to pander to the worst appetites in America is arguably even worse than genuinely believing the bullshit in the first place.

jj4211 ,

Seinfeld is a Billionaire. If I ever had 1% of that, I’d never try to force myself to be relevant and happily accept I’m not relevant anymore.

I’d expect that’s in fact the natural trajectory of being in pop culture, that your time of relevance is fleeting, and plan accordingly. No hurt feelings that no one is lining up for your material anymore, it happens to almost every single person in that field. You only can make your legacy worse by trying to force things, exit on a high note.

RidgeDweller ,

Yeah, it’s hard for me to point to anything relevant other than that interspecies cuck film he was in.

slurpeesoforion ,

And the point of a lot of old comedy was based on shitting on other people. The “woke left” is the kids calling us out on being assholes for no reason.

TurtleJoe ,
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world avatar

The ironic thing is that the show Seinfeld was more like IASIP than Friends, in that the characters were mostly shitty people, and the joke was usually on them (even though they similarly often destroyed the lives of people around them.)

IndustryStandard ,

Seinfelds wife also donated to the riot mob throwing fireworks into the UCLA pro palestine camp

…yahoo.com/jessica-seinfeld-bill-ackman-fund-2003…

Jessica Seinfeld, cookbook author and wife to comedian Jerry Seinfeld, is funding a pro-Israel counterprotest at UCLA—where violence broke out Tuesday night after a mob attacked demonstrators inside a pro-Palestine encampment.

A GoFundMe for the effort, which Seinfeld promoted in an Instagram story this week after contributing at least $5,000, has since made the majority of its donations anonymous. The fundraising page has raised more than $93,000 as of Wednesday and also changed its organizer name and description since launching over the weekend.

“I just gave to this GoFundMe to support more allies like yesterday’s at UCLA,” Seinfeld wrote this week. “More cities are being planned so please give what you can. Donations are annonymous [sic]. We will continue to share our light and love, as proud American Jews.”

ShepherdPie ,

His wife also donated to and promoted a GoFundMe to fund the violent counterprotestors at UCLA

thedailybeast.com/jessica-seinfeld-and-bill-ackma…

FiniteBanjo ,

I thought it was because of his pedophilic commentary about teenage girls.

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