Jerry Seinfeld Regrets Commenting “Extreme Left” Ruined Comedy: “It’s Not True”
deadline.comJerry Seinfeld is walking back comments he made earlier this year blaming political correctness ruining comedy. In a new interview, the Unfrosted director is expressing his regret for blaming the “extreme left” killing humor. “I did an interview with The New Yorker, and I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy,” Seinfeld said on Breaking Bread with Tom Papa. “I did say that.
That’s not true. It’s not true.” Seinfeld started his mea culpa saying, “There were two things that I have to say I regret saying and that I have to take back.” The comedian started by saying, “One of them, I didn’t say but people think I dod so just the same.
I said I don’t play colleges because the kids are too PC and you can’t do comedy for them.” Seinfeld said he never said it and noted he plays colleges “all the time,” adding, “I have no problem with kids, performing for them.” RELATED: Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes For “Sexual Undertones” In ‘Bee Movie’ During Duke Commencement Address: “But I Would Not Change It” In April of this year, Seinfeld said in an interview with the New Yorker, “It used to be that you would go home at the end of the day…People would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on.
M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on. Where is it? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C.
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