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| | Jerry Seinfeld complains about 'the extreme left & PC crap' ruining comedy these days | | Added 36 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jerry Seinfeld has been promoting Unfrosted, a movie about Pop Tarts, in recent weeks. He was recently profiled by GQ, and he took a dump on the film industry, saying in part: ?Film doesn?t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives.When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we?re walking through a fire hose of water, just trying to see.? I put that in the links last week and there was some debate. For what it?s worth, I think it?s true that the film industry has changed radically in the past 15-20 years, but all of the changes haven?t been bad. There?s more diversity across the board, more niche-market art being made and we?re living in a more stratified culture rather than the more homogenous pop culture of the 1990s. While Seinfeld might have been on the verge of making a decent point last week, this week he?s just an old man yelling at the politically correct youths.
Jerry Seinfeld said in an interview with The New Yorker while touting his feature directorial effort ?Unfrosted? that ?P.C. crap? and the ?extreme left? is making television comedy go extinct. Seinfeld is a sitcom icon thanks to his eponymous NBC sitcom that ran between 1989 and 1998, but he says viewers no longer flock to their television sets in order to get their comedy fix like they did for decades.
?Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don?t get it,? Seinfeld said. ?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.? You just expected, ?There?ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.? Well, guess what?where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.?
Seinfeld noted that comedy fans are ?now going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we?re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly. But when you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups??Here?s our thought about this joke.? Well, that?s the end of your comedy.?
?We did an episode of the [?Seinfeld?] in the nineties where Kramer decides to start a business of having homeless people pull rickshaws because, as he says, ?They?re outside anyway,? he continued. ?Do you think I could get that episode on the air today??We would write a different joke with Kramer and the rickshaw today. We wouldn?t do that joke. We?d come up with another joke. They move the gates like in the slalom. Culture?the gates are moving. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that, wherever they put the gates, I?m going to make the gate.?
Seinfeld went on to stress that it?s the ?stand-ups? who ?really have the freedom? to cross the line when it comes to comedy nowadays, further suggesting that television networks are no longer interested in doing anything that will ruffle feathers and offend the P.C. crowd.
[From Variety]
?Culture?the gates are moving. Your job is to be agile and clever enough that, wherever they put the gates, I?m going to make the gate.? Yes, that?s the point? Comedy evolves, the audience evolves, jokes evolve, and comedians need to move with the times so they aren?t spending the latter half of their careers doing ?comedy? about how much young people suck because they don?t think it?s funny to make fun of gay folks anymore. I agree that there?s a real lack of network comedies these days, but again, that?s not the fault of comedy writers or, you know, the audience. At some point, networks just decided that game shows and singing competitions were more profitable and ?safer.? Comedy writers fled to cable, premium cable and streaming. It should be said though, in the past two decades, there were some excellent network sitcoms 30 Rock, Parks & Rec, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, New Girl, The Office, Modern Family, Happy Endings. Streaming and cable widened the options Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Archer, Ted Lasso, Hacks, It?s Always Sunny, etc.
Also, the idea that Seinfeld (the show) was, like, pushing the envelope or incredibly dangerous or ribald is just false its comedy was mostly mining the banalities of life. ?I can?t do the comedy I want to do because the audience will be offended!? You can literally make all of the offensive jokes you want and punch down as hard as you want. No one will stop you. There just won?t be an audience for it.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld on post-pandemic comedy: 'People are going to go back' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jerry Seinfeld is currently promoting his latest Netflix stand-up special, 23 Hours to Kill. It was obviously filmed several months ago, pre-pandemic, and the humor apparently ?hits? differently in the middle of a global pandemic. To promote the special, Seinfeld chatted with the NY Times about life, quarantines, social distancing and the future of comedy. He chatted with the NYT via Zoom, by the way. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
When the pandemic felt serious to him: ?I knew instantly. I called my tour producer and said, ?Get ready to start canceling dates.? It was like running in front of a tsunami. Let?s head for the hills. But part of your makeup in this profession is adaptation. You just become highly adaptable to everything. So this is just another thing to adapt to.
Whether he feels like being funny right now: ?Not really, to tell you the truth. I don?t really feel that funny. It?s hurting so many people, so brutally. I?m not in the mood to be funny. It?s like you?re a bird and then suddenly they change your cage. You?re just not sure who you are now.
Whether the pandemic made him feel validated as a neat freak: ?I?m not a germophobe. I?m more about organized behavior routines. Yes, I do put my toothpaste on the same spot all the time. I?m not O.C.D., but I love routine. I get less depressed with routine. You?re just a trained animal in a circus. I like that feeling: Now we?re going to do this trick, now we?re going to do that trick. That makes me feel better. I don?t want too much mental freedom. I have too much of that anyway.
Having his kids home all day, every day: ?There?s some difficulty, but I really like all that extra time. My kids are teenagers and you would never see them, normally ? no idea where they are or what they?re doing. Now I really feel like I?m getting to see who they are. Teenagers want to escape their parents so desperately, and they don?t want you to see who they?ve become. I remember that from my teenage years. You want to leave behind and adopt this new personality that you just thought of.
Whether stand-up at comedy clubs will end now: ?No chance of that. People are going to go back, first of all, because laughter is the greatest feeling of release that there is. And No. 2, the comedians are going to adapt so much quicker than everyone else. The TV shows won?t quite know what to make. The movie people might not know what to make. The comedians, within three nights, will know what to be doing. Because you?ll get that feedback instantly of what works and what doesn?t.
The poignancy of loving New York right now: ?No, if you love the city, you still love it. I was talking to somebody yesterday, and they just said the word ?Williamsburg,? and I got such a pang of longing to be in Williamsburg. I miss the city a lot. The vibe of it ? it?s postponed, let?s say.
Whether this will be his last Netflix special: ?I don?t know. It feels like that to me. I like guys like Cary Grant that didn?t want to go past a certain point on film. Live is different ? I?ll perform forever. But on film, there?s a point where ? I don?t know. I?ll see when I get there.
[From The NY Times]
I enjoyed this piece more than I thought I would. I?ve never been a Seinfeld stan, but I find it interesting to hear what he?s got to say about the current energy of comedy, the future of comedy and all of that. There have absolutely been moments (in recent years) where he sounds like an out-of-touch douche, but? I don?t know, he was mostly fine here. I think people will want comfort in the brave new pandemic world, and that includes comfort-comedy, safe comedy, old-school comedy. I bet he?s right that comedians will have brand new sets about the pandemic too, while TV shows and movies will struggle with how to deal with the issue.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld 'didn't see why it was necessary to fire' Roseanne Barr | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the past five years or so, doesn?t it seem like Jerry Seinfeld is strangely out of touch? I mean, he?s richer than God, of course he?s been ?out of touch? with the common folk for decades. But he?s also out-of-touch culturally, like he doesn?t even pay attention to the conversations we?re having as a society, or the conversations which are preoccupying Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Maybe that?s about money too at some point, you get so rich that the money insulates you from every single conversation. Anyway, Jerry Seinfeld has some thoughts about ABC firing Roseanne Barr. His thoughts are just? out of touch.
Jerry Seinfeld is weighing in on Roseanne Barr?s firing from Roseanne in the wake of her racist tweet. The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee star got candid about the controversy on Monday, when he admitted to Entertainment Tonight about 65-year-old Barr?s dismissal from the ABC reboot, ?I didn?t see why it was necessary to fire her. Why would you murder someone who?s committing suicide? But I never saw someone ruin their entire career with one button push,? added Seinfeld, 64. ?That was fresh.?
In Seinfeld?s opinion, Barr?s character shouldn?t have been scrapped; instead, she should have been replaced.
?I think they should get another Roseanne,? he advised. ?They brought Dan Conner back, he was dead and they brought him back. So, why can?t we get another Roseanne??
?There?s other funny women that could do that part. You need to get the comic in there,? said Seinfeld. ?I hate to see a comic lose a job.?
[From People]
The one nice thing I?ll say about Seinfeld?s comments is that he?s probably known Roseanne for decades from the comedy circuit in the ?80s, and it?s nice that he would stand up for a female comic whom he?s known for a long time. But the rest of it is awful? ?Why would you murder someone who?s committing suicide?? What kind of sh-tty comment is that?? And if we?re using the awful suicide-murder analogy, then yes, Roseanne was self-sabotaging? so that she would be fired. She knew what she was doing was wrong and she did it anyway. She had agency in her downfall. As for what he says about replacing Roseanne? she owns the rights to the characters. Replacing her probably wouldn?t have been an option. But thanks for chiming in, Jerry.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld tweet-joked about Black Lives Matter: offensive or not? | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jerry Seinfeld?s current gig is Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, where he rides around with some of his famous friends and they shoot the breeze. It?s like an informal interview show and people generally like it. President Obama even did an episode. Seinfeld announces new episodes all the time on his Twitter, often doing a little one-liner joke, which are often cheeseball. Sample: ?New Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee! Cedric The Entertainer. No affiliation with Cedric The Regular Person.?
Well, Jerry tried to do a punchy little joke about his latest guest, professional disgruntled comedian Lewis Black. This is the tweet:
New!Comedians In Cars Getting CoffeeLewis Black. Black?s life matters. @Acura! https://t.co/MDGxxNNjgz
— Jerry Seinfeld (@JerrySeinfeld) January 26, 2017
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| | Jessica Seinfeld in Dior at the Emmys: super-cute or terrible styling? | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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While I wouldn?t ordinarily choose Jessica Seinfeld to be the ?top? of a fashion post, I have noticed that people enjoy hating on Jessica, and I also noticed last night that there was a lot of nostalgia about Jerry Seinfeld being at the Emmys for the first time in nearly two decades. Apparently, Seinfeld hasn?t been to the Emmys since his show went off the air in the ?90s. So he?s just been living it up in New York with hundreds of millions of dollars. And my God, Jessica Seinfeld is so smug about it. Anyway, Jessica wore this Dior dress. Usually, Dior will try to dress one of the biggest-name nominees at an awards show. This time, Dior only dressed one person, Jessica Seinfeld, the wife of a nominee. That?s how rich the Seinfelds are. While I think the Dior is sort of cute, Jessica Seinfeld ruins it with crappy styling.
And here are the kids from Stranger Things: Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin. They walked the carpet together, they sang ?Uptown Funk? together and they were just great kids together. Millie is something of a budding fashionista ? she proudly ID?d her dress as Valentino Red. These kids are adorable.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld: 'There's a creepy PC thing out there that really bothers me' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last fall when Top Five came out, I forgot to mention how Jerry Seinfeld’s cameo was the least funny part of the film. Even in an R-rated setting, the dude couldn’t muster up a laugh with his sardonic comments. I try to forget Jerry was a part of the project.
Jerry is still complaining about how stand-up comics have it rough these days. Yesterday, we talked about how Jerry feels college campuses are too sensitive, and kids don’t understand what “racist” and “sexist” mean. Jerry can’t believe people won’t let him shine. Seriously, can’t a guy stand on a stage, joke around, and make millions of dollars without being held accountable? People called Jerry out.
Jerry “clarified” his statements last night during a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers. He still can’t stand political correctness, and he didn’t mean to simply call out college kids. Jerry thinks the problem is a larger one, and now everyone is too uptight. Seth started out by saying comedy is all about “pushing the line.” Jerry believes comedy has been hampered by audiences moving that line, just for fun:
“They keep moving the lines in for no reason. I do this joke about the way people need to justify their cell phone. ?I need to have it with me because people are so important.? I say, ‘They don?t seem very important, the way you scroll through them like a gay French king.’ [Exaggerated hand gesture.] I did this line recently in front of an audience, and comedy is where you can feel an opinion. And they thought, ?What do you mean gay? What are you talking about gay? What are you doing? What do you mean?? I thought, ?Are you kidding me?’”
“I could imagine a time where people would say that?s offensive to suggest that a gay person moves their hands in a flourishing notion, and you need to apologize. There?s a creepy, PC thing out there that really bothers me.”
[From YouTube]
Journalist David Remnick agreed with Jerry and thinks the internet (especially Twitter) makes the PC brigade worse. Remnick makes an interesting point. The internet can amplify any sentiment. It can highlight the worst and best of humanity. It’s still not a comedian’s place to tell people how they should feel about his jokes. Nor should anyone belittle a group who feels offended when a comedian mocks them.
I guess we’re supposed to feel bad for Jerry though. Woe is the privileged comedian who can’t adapt to his audience.
Here’s the clip of Jerry whining to Seth Meyers.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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| | Jerry Seinfeld thinks he falls somewhere on the autism spectrum | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Confession: I actually think I might be on the autism spectrum. Either that or I?m a hyper-self-aware, self-diagnosing neurotic and I fall nowhere on the autism spectrum. I?ve always been a bit socially awkward and I?ve always been off in my own little world, happy to be alone. I?m not saying this to mock or have some kind of exercise in narcissism, but I just wanted to bring it up because I think Jerry Seinfeld has done the same thing that I?ve done for years. Meaning, whenever he hears a story about high-functioning autistics, he thinks ?Huh, I have a lot in common with that guy.?
Jerry Seinfeld, on the autism spectrum? That’s what the actor and comedian told NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams during a recent segment about his hit internet series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The 60-year-old comic, who, despite his fame and fortune, continues to do stand-up at New York comedy clubs, explained to Williams that he’s still finding out exactly who he is as a person. And as he’s learned more about autism spectrum disorder in recent years, Seinfeld explains he?s become more convinced he can see himself in the description.
“I think, on a very drawn out scale, I think I’m on the spectrum,” the sitcom creator revealed.
“What are the markers?” an intrigued Williams asked.
“You know, never paying attention to the right things,? said Seinfeld. ?Basic social engagement is really a struggle. I’m very literal. When people talk to me and they use expressions, sometimes I don’t know what they’re saying.”
But while the revelation about his social struggles may be surprising, Seinfeld is clear that this isn’t something he considers a disability.
“I don’t see it as dysfunctional,” he added. “I just think of it as an alternate mindset.”
[From Us Weekly]
Yep, I could see that. Obviously, Seinfeld isn?t talking about the life-altering autism that so many children and adults face and struggle with on a daily basis. But the more we find out about the broad scale of autism, I think the spectrum ends up explaining a lot high-functioning people that often get read as ?odd? or ?weirdly brilliant? or just ?awkward.? So, do you think Seinfeld is right in his self-diagnosis? I could see it.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld on Lady Gaga: 'This woman is a jerk. I hate her.' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For two weekends in a row, Lady Gaga went to a baseball game in New York and made an ass out of herself. The first time, she allegedly showed up drunk at Shea Stadium, then proceeded to get even more bombed as people started coming up to her and talking to her. Security was concerned, so they moved her to a private box - which happened to be owned by Jerry Seinfeld. Then last weekend, Gaga arrived again, in her bra and panties and got bombed again in a private box, then broke into the locker room and began feeling up her Gaga tittays. She was very nearly banned - but I don?t think she was in the end. Anyway, somebody decided to get Jerry Seinfeld?s take on the situation - and let?s just say he?s not a fan.
Twelve days after Lady Gaga wound up in his box at Shea Stadium during a Mets game, Jerry Seinfeld has called her “a jerk” and then some. Joking or no? Read and decide.
“This woman is a jerk. I hate her,” Seinfeld said during a WFAN radio interview on Monday, perhaps . “I can’t believe they put her in my box, which I paid for.”
Gaga, dressed in bra and swilling beer, was moved from her front row seat to Seinfeld’s empty box (without his knowledge) after flipping off photographers.
“You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we’re living in now?” he said.
Seinfeld first said when asked about the June 10th incident, reports the NY Post, “I wish her the best.. you take one ‘A’ off of that and you’ve got gag.”
“I don’t know what these young people think or how they promote their careers,” Seinfeld said. “I’m older, I’m 56. I look at Lady Gaga the way Keith Hernandez watches these kids when they pull the pocket out, they wear the inside-out pocket. … Do you think he understands that? He can’t understand that. That’s a new game, that’s kids.”
He added, “I’m not one of these all-publicity-is-good people. People talk about you need exposure — you could die of exposure.”
The Mets game in question was eight days before the Yankees episode that landed her on the cover of Sunday’s New York Post.
[From HuffPo]
On one side, I get Seinfeld?s point - after all, it was his box, he paid for it, and even though he wasn?t using it doesn?t mean he wants Gaga?s germs in there. And Gaga was acting like an a–hole, which Jerry and everyone else has the right to call her out on. On the other side, when Jerry Seinfeld talks like this, he sounds like a f-cking has-been. And he?s not really - he?s just so f-cking rich, he doesn?t have to do anything he doesn?t want to do. He?s disconnected, he?s crotchety, and there?s also a dash of hypocrisy in the mix. He?s giving a lecture on the art of publicity and how the game has changed, when all he had to do to help out his plagiarist wife was buy Oprah a hundred pair of shoes and suddenly Jessica Seinfeld is the most unique writer in the world to middle America. So, Jessica Seinfeld gets to f-ck and buy her way to literary stardom, while Gaga is dismissed for working her way up from the bottom on talent, ingenuity and an other-worldly gift for PR stunts? Bullsh-t.
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| | Jerry Seinfeld to host new show: 'Marriage Ref' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Annoying comedian and former sitcom star Jerry Seinfeld will be back on the airwaves inflicting his unique brand of mean humor on the public. Only this time he’ll be trying to impart marriage and relationship advice while getting his trite digs in. The 55 year-old comedian will host a show called “Marriage Ref” in which he and a panel of celebrities meet with troubled couples and provide advice for their problems. It sounds fascinating. The LA Times has more, including the detail that the concept was allegedly conceived by Seinfeld’s wife. I wonder whose original idea she jacked for that one.
Jerry Seinfeld is giving the credit for his return to network television to his wife, Jessica.
The comedian said his wife came up with the idea for “The Marriage Ref,” a comedic look at the battles between married couples. The show will premiere on NBC Feb. 28 after the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.
The concept came up during an argument Seinfeld and his wife were having while out at dinner with a friend. When the friend became uncomfortable and tried to leave, the couple persuaded the friend to listen to both sides of the dispute and decide who was right. They agreed to abide by the decision.
“Sports simplicity is what’s missing in marriage,” Seinfeld said.
Each show will feature three to five couples who will air their disagreement during a filmed segment at their home. A panel of celebrities in a studio will then debate the issues before handing the matter over to comedian Tom Papa — the Marriage Ref — who will make the final judgment.
Panelists already signed to appear include Tina Fey, Charles Barkley, Alec Baldwin and Larry David. Seinfeld is expected to appear during the premiere and a few other episodes.
When asked why his show did not have a panel of experts to guide the couples, Seinfeld quipped, “Experts are helpful. That’s not our thing.”
[From LA Times via The OK Magazine]
Please let this fail please let this fail. I can’t stand this couple ever since Jessica stole an entire cookbook andJerry defamed the author, calling her a “wacko” and comparing her to a serial killer.
The London Telegraph reports that some of the husband/wife scenarios “include a husband who enrages his wife by parking a motorcycle in their living room, and a couple who argue about whether to have their dead dog stuffed.” Whatever happened to regular couple arguments over the kids, money, or housework?
A lot of my friends loved Seinfeld but I never got the appeal of the show. I found it formulaic and thought the characters were too narcissistic. We’ll see how this goofy show does on TV. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it tanks. Jerry Seinfeld can go drive his vintage Porsches and continue making lame jokes about his privileged life.
Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld are shown at the Bee Movie premiere on 10/27/08. I hated that movie and I can tolerate all kinds of kid films. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures
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| | Curb Your Enthusiasm a Seinfeld reunion is coming!!! | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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(photo from Seinfeld)
Hollywood Insider is reporting that the 4 original Seinfeld cast members are reuniting for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode! Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards will all appear in an episode of the HBO show in the fall, but they have no other information.
It will be fun to see the four together again and with their co-creator! Let's just hope their reunion is better than the finale!!!
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