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[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago

Suck ass loser. Get fucked Seinfeld

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago

Jerry Seinfeld can, as we left leaning partygoers love to say, "get fucked and blow it out his ass".

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Right, cause people learning from their mistakes is such a horrible thing.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 points 5 hours ago

Its a great thing.
It doesn't mean anyone has to immediately forgive him and if he means it, he will have to prove it more than once.

[-] lido@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 15 hours ago

Jerry Seinfeld has never been politically relevant and hasn't suffered in the least because of his Seinfeld residuals.

Bill Hicks (RIP) has never been more relevant.

[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago

We miss you Bill.

[-] 2deck@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago
[-] xangadix@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

The preacher

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 92 points 18 hours ago

"Look, I was just upset that day because my girlfriend's parents grounded her"

[-] Jomega@lemmy.world 43 points 16 hours ago

I never understood why he would say that to begin with. It's not like his brand of comedy was ever particularly edgy. Obviously the "people are too sensitive these days" thing is stupid, but it felt extra strange coming from him.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 5 hours ago

Maybe he got accosted by a Gen Z flight attendant about one of his biting air travel observations.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 34 points 16 hours ago

Jerry seinfeld is one of the least funniest people who ever called themselves a comic.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I think he had one or two good lines in the show. but the other three carried that shit like their lives depended on it.

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 46 points 14 hours ago

His show was a cultural phenomenon. You've never heard of the least funny comedian. Let's stop the weird Lemmy contrarianism. It makes us look more insanely out of touch than Jerry Seinfeld. (Which is so well known his name is in my auto-correct).

[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I don't think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there'll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say "well they were never really that good anyway". And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

He was never funny. Larry David, the guy who wrote the show, was the funny one.

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

FYI, it was written by both Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol -1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah and apparently he needed Larry David to be funny cause Jerry Seinfeld is the same guy who wrote Bee Movie and Unfrosted with other Seinfeld writers and we know how that went.

[-] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

I'll say it. I like the bee movie.

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago

If you recall, Jerry was literally the least funny person on the entire show.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 4 points 5 hours ago

It was always weird to me that the supposed comedian was the one playing it straight in the show, unless that was a meta joke, I guess.

[-] celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

I like the idea of that being a meta joke, it certainly seems like everyone in Jerry's life is a wacky cartoon character and the "professional comedian" is the normal guy. There are some legitimately funny moments with Jerry over 9 seasons, but a lot of his dialogue is basically "did that just happen?!?" type reactions.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

but that's a result of how they wrote the character Jerry, not necessarily a reflection of Jerry the real person.

[-] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago

I absolutely loved Seinfeld (the show) and recently saw his stand up in person and it was absolutely terrible, it was actually pretty shocking. He's just so incredibly unrelatable now.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world -5 points 4 hours ago

It wasn't funny. I never watched the show. I'm not alone in that either.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 13 hours ago

Seinfeld turn to shit the moment Larry David left. Curb made it clear that he carried that show.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml -5 points 4 hours ago

Nah Jerry was never very funny. It turns out it was all Larry David

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago

I wouldn't say that's contrarianism. I've heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld's comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even. Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn't one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I wouldn’t say that’s contrarianism. I’ve heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even.

all of that can be considered contrarianism too. It was easy to shit on observational humor because Seinfeld was the most popular comedy at the time.

Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.

the character Jerry was the straight man, so if you only watched the show Jerry (the actor/comedian) had an uphill battle to seem as funny as Kramer, George, Elaine, etc.

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 134 points 21 hours ago

Hey, good for him. I believe firmly in reformation, or reflection and changing your views and it sounds to me like he thought about it and came around, so good.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

He's a right-wing bigot. His stances have not changed. He's still a piece of shit, despite his "regrets".

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 146 points 21 hours ago

What does Jerry Seinfeld know about being funny anyway? Wasn’t that Larry David’s job?

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