Jerry Seinfeld has blamed the “extreme Left” and “PC c*nts” for killing comedy on television, claiming networks were too worried “about offending other people”. The Telegraph has more.
The American comic, whose eponymous sitcom drew 76 million viewers when it ended in the late 1990s, hit out at TV bosses for sending jokes through “committees” for approval.
Would-be viewers were now turning to live stand-up routines for comedy that had not been sanitised in order to avoid causing offence, he added.
“It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go: ‘Oh, Cheers is on; oh, M*A*S*H is on; oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on; All in the Family is on,’” Seinfeld told The New Yorker’s David Remnick.
“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 PC c— and people worrying so much about offending other people.
“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.”
Seinfeld, who began his career as a stand-up comedian, said: “Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because they 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.”
Worth reading in full.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
If Apple caves to the demands of the UK government, other governments, including authoritarian regimes like Russian, Iran and China, will demand the same access.
It is UK being the authoritarian regime!
There is no suggestion Russia, Iran and China are demanding the same of Apple, just UK! That makes us the most tyrannical nation of all.
Obviously we don’t know if Apple have been served similar Technical Capability Notices by China or any other state. It would almost certainly be illegal for them to reveal that… We know France arrested the head of Telegram recently after tricking him with a supposed meeting with Macron.
Looking at this another way around, has the UK issued a similar demand to any other tech firms? Meta? Amazon? X? Signal? Proton Mail? Telegram?
It did try to censor Rumble after Russell Brand was in the Channel Four documentary where various complainants made accusations. Rumble is also banned in France I believe,
‘authoritarian regimes….’
Like the one I lived through in the UK for 3 years?
The one that arrests you for silent prayers, or saying penises indicate a man?
Fascinating.
Indeed.
Having lived in probably the softest of the communist countries for the first 24 years of my life and therefore having some first hand experience I can categorically state that the UK is currently as authoritarian as the country of my birth was.
In some ways it’s worse. The communists lied day and night but even they didn’t go as far as saying that a man can become a woman.
Um, no. Digital privacy becomes something which you’ll assume you have until the officers of the state come knocking on your door – whatever your ideology. Digital privacy will become a privilege asserted by those willing to break the law and encrypt stuff and to hell with what the state demands.
The UK doesn’t like free speech.
Many Russian websites are blocked in the UK.
If you want to read, see or hear Western geopolitical analysts giving their unbiased opinions, which is quite often the opposite of what the msm are saying, you have to use a VPN.
The UK government are afraid of the truth.
Yup, rt.com still blocked here. I didn’t think we were at war with Russia. It’s not blocked in the Dominican Republic – probably very soon the entire population of the DR will turn into Putin Stooges
Or well informed Putin supporters.
Starmer visited China in his first few weeks to kiss the CCP ring.
Lammy followed shortly afterwards.
Note that EVERYTHING they have done in power benefits China.
Ask yourself why.
Did Mr Starmer actually say ‘Britain would have free speech “for a very, very long time”’? Hilarious. Britain has never had free speech and it certainly does not have it now. There is mass suppression of views on a grand scale but also amplification of the specific views of the establishment. This insidious phenomenon pervades every aspect of current British society.
The British Establishment WANTS a Chinese-style system in place: surveillance, social credit system and suppression of dissent.