Jerry Seinfeld: PC culture is killing comedy

Jerry Seinfeld has decried “PC crap” for “killing comedy”, saying the “extreme-Left” is worrying so much about offending people that there are no funny shows anymore. The 70-year-old former star of namesake sitcom Seinfeld lamented that the days of M.A.S.H, Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show were gone, suggesting that shows now had to go through “four or five rewrites” from groups whose job it was to make sure they didn’t offend people.

Seinfeld was on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast talking about his new movie Unfrosted, a fictionalised comedy of the creation of the American toaster pastry Pop Tarts. But the conversation turned to the importance of humour when interviewer David Remnick asked how the “weight of the world”, referencing the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, affects comedy. Seinfeld replied that “nothing really affects comedy” and that “people always need it”. Let’s hope the sensitivity readers don’t catch wind of this interview…