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Gawker Wants You to Hate Mr. Jerry Seinfeld

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Because Mr. Seinfeld said in an interview that race doesn’t matter in comedy, only making funny matters, and according to The Gawker website, that’s racist!

Jerry Seinfeld, the most successful comedian in the world and maker of comedy for and about white people, isn’t interested in trying to include non-white anything in his work.

When asked why he featured so many white men in his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee during a Buzzfeed interview on CBS This Morning, Seinfeld seemed offended by the very question. “It really pisses me off,” he said. “People think [comedy] is the census or something, it’s gotta represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares?”

BuzzFeed Business Editor Peter Lauria seemed hesitant to pursue the frank answer, but the comedian continued on anyway. “Funny is the world that I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested,” he said. “I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that.” He seems to suggest that any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny, though he’s also likely fed up with the amount of bad comedy he’s been forced to sit through in his (waning) career.

Which is too bad, because Seinfeld is downplaying the work of everyone from Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby to Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, and Eddie Huang, who are all in various stages of their own sitcoms that just might turn out to be the next Seinfeld….

In conclusion: Yes, comedy should represent the entire pie chart of America, and the glorious, multicolored diversity pie should be thrown directly at Jerry Seinfeld’s face.

Hat Tip: Legal Insurrection. (No direct link to Gawker because I suspect the point of this silly column is trolling for clicks by being “outrageous.”)

Comments

  1. From the other side of the equation, the audience side, I’ll listen to comedians of any color and either sex (biologically speaking) who are funny and not too crude, foul mouthed, and/or stupid. Did I say funny?–have to be funny, or at least amusing. Social commentary is optional.

    Does that make me a racist as I don’t look at things like skin color when I go to hear a comedian? I miss the days when words meant what they were supposed to mean.

  3. Throw me on that racist pile too, then.
    I’ll enjoy anyone’s comedy, regardless of THEIR race, gender, orientation, heritage, etc, IF they are funny (and not gratuitously or wantonly crude.)
    I’ll also quit attending or supporting anyone’s shows (regardless of ‘same’ above) if they become too political, bent or insulting (see also Kathy Griffin, Sam Kinnison, Roseanne Barr).
    But wait, there’s MORE!
    I will listen to racist, sexist, ageist, Earth-first-ist, PETA-ist, Tea Party is Evil-ist, whatever-ist jokes… and I come away UNSCATHED, psyche-intact and not wanting to go out and do evil, harbor ill will, etc for those same groups.
    Ah, the joys of being a discerning, educated, well-mannered, civilized, middle-aged WHITE AMERICAN MALE. *Le Sigh*

  4. It proves what I’ve always been saying – libtards have no sense of humor. Otherwise, they would not have all of these “rules” where you cannot make fun of someone for some intrinsic reason.

    There is a local conservative politician-turned-talk-show-host here in Houston named Michael Berry (whose wife, in fact is the Secretary of the State of Texas) who tells these “offended” people where to get off. He also engages in no-holds-barred monologues of everyone from crack hoes to thugs to illegal aliens to rich white liberals without skipping a beat. And he gets laughs galore.

    Guess what – he’s the top-rated talk show host in Houston and has expanded to markets as far away as Portland and Atlanta. I’ll give you one guess as to why.

    People don’t have a right to not be offended. Period.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  5. When Lorne Michaels was asked why there is more targeted conservative comedy than targeted liberal humor on SNL, he replied that liberals can’t take a joke. Liberals take it personally and conservatives find it funny. Liberals are almost as bad as the Perpetually Angry Islamic Man.

  7. I almost fell over from shock at SNL’s “Black History Month” skit that basically said “BHM is just an excuse for black people to remind white people of their ancestors’ misdeeds and demand an apology from white people on a daily basis.” Considering the fact that SNL typically mocks conservatives and Republicans (though that seems to be changing as of late), and the predictable response from the grievance machine, that was kind of daring on their part.