{"id":128764,"date":"2024-04-30T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128764"},"modified":"2024-05-01T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:24:09","slug":"telegraph-jerry-seinfeld-blames-extreme-left-for-killing-tv-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128764","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Jerry Seinfeld blames \u2018extreme Left\u2019 for killing TV comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 70-year-old added: \u201cWith certain comedians now, people are having fun with them stepping over the line, and us all laughing about it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut again, it\u2019s the stand-ups that really have the freedom to do it because no one else gets the blame if it doesn\u2019t go down well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seinfeld has previously said he had been warned not to perform his act at colleges because \u201cthey\u2019re so PC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Students \u201cjust want to use these words \u2013 \u2018that\u2019s racist, that\u2019s sexist, that\u2019s prejudiced\u2019\u201d, he said, adding: \u201cThey don\u2019t know what the hell they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/us\/news\/2024\/04\/29\/seinfeld-blames-extreme-left-for-killing-television-comedy\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He&#39;s 100 percent correct. One of the toughest jobs in America these days is comedy because everyone gets offended at a glance, and no one can laugh at themselves. | Jerry Seinfeld blames &quot;extreme left and P.C. crap&quot; for downfall of TV sitcoms <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRHB3YYkUn\">https:\/\/t.co\/TRHB3YYkUn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g01Ta6IYAM\">pic.twitter.com\/g01Ta6IYAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Kelly (@pk500) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pk500\/status\/1785403254416749046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 70-year-old added: \u201cWith certain comedians now, people are having fun with them stepping over the line, and us all laughing about it. \u201cBut again, it\u2019s the stand-ups that really have the freedom to do it because no one else<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128764\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,194,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-humor-trivia","category-movies-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128766,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128764\/revisions\/128766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}