Jerry Seinfeld Causes Uproar With Comments About 'Extreme Left and P.C. Crap' Ruining Comedy

Jerry Seinfeld  sparked a serious debate about the state of comedy in a new podcast interview.

The sitcom legend shared his thoughts about how television has changed during a recent episode  of the New Yorkers Radio Hour, where he blamed the extreme left and PC crap for the lack of quality laughs on the small screen.

Asked how he handles serious aspects of the world weighing on you, Seinfeld told journalist David Remnick , Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they dont get it.

It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, MASH is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on, he reasoned. You just expected, Therell be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what where is it?

Ignoring the impact streaming has had on broadcast TV, the comic explained, This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.

Seinfeld said he saw endless input from producers and studio higher-ups, as well as risk-averse writers, as a death sentence for sitcoms.

When you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups Heres our thought about this joke well, thats the end of your comedy, he said.

But asked if he had ever personally had that experience, he admitted, Um. No.

When Remnick pointed out how his Seinfeld co-creator Larry David just wrapped the final season of the decidedly indelicate Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld said, Larry was grandfathered in. Hes old enough so that I dont have to observe those rules, because I started before you made those rules.

Online, opinions were split on the Bee Movie auteurs comments.

Some agreed, saying cultural shifts have made studios gun shy about offending people. Others called Seinfeld just another rich guy whining about woke.

Later in the interview, the comic acknowledged that taste in comedy is always in flux, comparing cultural mores to the gates in slalom skiing.

The gates are moving, he told Remnick. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that, wherever they put the gates, Im going to make the gate.

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