A few years ago, I picked up a very thick paperback at a yard sale, “Milton Berle’s Joke Book”. Try as I might, I could not find a single funny joke in the whole thing. Comedy has moved on since the 1950s, making Milton’s “comedy” very unfunny now. My point is that if Jerry wants to be welcome on college campus tours, he needs NEW MATERIAL. He can till be funny without being an ass. I think!
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I’m actually on the oldest edge of Gen X, but I refuse to look down on Millennials, Gen Y or Gen Z. I refuse to walk down the path of ageism and contempt for the generations coming up. My resentment is reserved for boomer lol!
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No, but I think I have a new sitcom idea… 
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A Maoist, a Trotskyist and an anarchist sharing the rent on their home?
It could work, if it was written by Maoists, Trotskyists and anarchists.
In reality there was Citizen Smith, but it was a comedy from the late 70s so I dread to think about how it holds up today.
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Fortunately, I didn’t have any respect for Seinfeld’s comedic chops to lose.
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As far as I can tell the only place their two clips are being juxtaposed is here on BB - they were not speaking to each other, and as much as I understand it they are apparently friends.
BB or someone else found two somewhat apposite statements and turned it into a ‘controversy’, and we all just got on board. With that I think I’m out of this particular thread, because I hate being played.
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Perfect!
I had never heard of that show… I wonder if there are clips online?
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He obviously knows about writers’ rooms. When people make that sort of complaint I assume they are talking about the platoons of studio execs sticking their nose in the process.
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my wife she says " i wanna have sex in the car"
me- “what are you tellin’ me for?”
her- “I need somebody to shoot the dissident”
tough room indeed
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I think you took the Maoist struggle sessions as a slight, where as I meant it as a joke. Had that gone to committee, you might now have mistakenly put me on the right side of centre. Mind you given this is a USA forum, your left is still fairly right.
Non-American…has to explain the joke…are you by chance Rainier Wolfcastle?
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Odd that you recognize he was essentially playing the straight man most of the time but then appear to be criticizing him for having all the qualities of a straight man.
“The truth is Bud Abbott was the least funny part of Abbott and Costello” basically. One can discuss the qualities of a good straight man but they are boring by design.
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Love “Seinfeld”, but he’s full of it. Everything he lists was never “edgy” comedy (other than All in the Family). Nobody was offended by MASH, MTM, Everybody Loves Raymod, or a dozen other comedies.
Given the subject matter, I have a real hard time believing this.
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There were several examples of self-censorship, public controversy and network meddling in MASH, but that really just further illustrates how wrong Jerry Seinfeld is about network sitcoms being more restrained today than they were in decades past.
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OK, not Boomer.
You’re trying to rile people up. I’m just sitting over here in my rocking chair laughing at the foolishness of that statement. Thanks for the chuckle.
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Hmm… I think the difference was that there wasn’t an internet to go and post a hot-take about how MASH is anti-American and ruining western civilization or whatever… I’m fairly certain if one were to dig into the media of the day, one would very much find some critical articles about MASH…
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I remember from when I was a kid this episode where a racist soldier needed a blood transfusion, and said something about “getting the right kind of blood, wink”. (Something to that effect.)
So Hawkeye and I think BJ started staining his skin brown, and when the guy got a mirror and freaked out they said something like, “Oops we must have given you the wrong blood!” before laying into about being a racist shit.
I am sure that didn’t play well in some places.
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