HOLLYWOOD – With his Netflix comedy film Unfrosted debuting to abysmal reviews, 70-year-old comedian Jerry Seinfeld blames the failure on “extreme left, and PC college campus audiences”, unlike in his heyday, when the teenage girls he dated were fans of his comedy.
The thing about Seinfeld and other comedians who aren’t as popular anymore is that they blame the audience for not liking their material. Tastes change over time. The comedian either needs to change their act or live with the consequences that people aren’t going to like their material as much.
Rodney Dangerfield was a great comic for his time. If someone tried to tell the same jokes today, I don’t think he’d get very far. That’s not the fault of the audience. It’s the fault of the comedian. No one owes you a laugh.
Rodney Dangerfield was a great comic for his time. If someone tried to tell the same jokes today, I don’t think he’d get very far.
No respect then, no respect now. 😔
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.”
I don’t mean to undermine the point, which I agree with, but I did see a meme the other day which recycled a Dangerfield joke. (The one in which a girl told him to come over, that there was nobody home.)
That was a legit funny joke. Dangerfield’s stuff was pretty good and a lot of it still stands up today because he was usually punching up. His shtick was always “I don’t get no respect” but always because he was schulb not because the others were wrong.
I’m 45 years old and grew up during the Seinfeld heyday. He wasn’t funny in the 90s and isn’t funny now. George Carlin is someone who made sense in the 70s and made sense until the day he died. Rob Reiner, Mel Brooks - guys I think that are amazing and funny whose work still holds up today. Jerry Seinfeld was a guy who failed upward.
Poor fucking Rodney out here catching strays.
Nah, he’d agree, he had a sense of humor and would be the first person to know when something fell flat as he was full of empathy, comic 101
Dangerfield is a good one to point out. With him, it’s not just the jokes, but the delivery. And he could freestyle like a mad man!
He owned that schtick. No one will ever be able to do it again.
“Eyy I don’t get noh respect…!”
Dangerfield was all about self-deprecation. That’s like one of the most popular attitudes of the current generation. I think Dangerfield would find a welcoming audience today. He’d probably have to tweak his material when referencing women, but otherwise he’d nail it.
I probably used a bad example. I like his comedy, but you hear it and it’s immediately dates itself. It’s the same when you see a old 70s Friar’s Club roast vs a Comedy Central one. The jokes are still funny but trying to take that sensibility and make relevant today would be difficult.
What is the DEAL with irrelevant comedians attacking basic decency for one last bit of the spotlight?
And have you ever had airline food…?
Reminder that Jerry Seinfeld’s wife funded the violent Zionist lynch mob attacking students at UCLA
‘Member when Bobcat Goldthwait did the Montreal Just for Laughs festival in 1994? Every Canadian who had a cable package growing up ‘members.
Breaking News: guy who started a show “about nothing” 35 years ago is flummoxed that people still don’t find his jokes funny two generations later.
Bruv, The Onion is pulling their headlines out of Lemmy comments now?
It’s The Beaverton, bruv.
Oh, true, only checked the community, not the link.
Yeah, I know.
George Carlin is still relevant
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That’s honestly a pretty funny line, I gotta hive him that
It’s an article from The Onion
Yeah it seems to be sorta like a Canadian version of The Onion. That’s disappointing, would’ve been funnier if it was real.
Eh.
To be fair, woke is some humorless braindead junk.
Humorless yes, but not braindead junk, it’s almost the opposite of being braindead.
People out there like “Okay but if you think about it isn’t taking the red pill humorless and braindead”
“Woke” is humorless because it’s not trying to be funny. It’s just being considered for other people. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever seen something being sold as a “woke comedy night”.
The things I’ve seen sold as “conservative comedy” is just some authority figure confidently and smugly confirming the audience’s preconceived notions. Real humor sets up an expectation, then subverts it.
“What’s the deal with inequality?”
We hate woke but we hate sleepy joe too.
Are we ever happy?
