Jerry Seinfeld says he was wrong about the “extreme left” killing comedy

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Jerry Seinfeld has said he regrets saying that the “extreme left” is killing comedy.Earlier this year, the comic and actor spoke about the current state of comedy and claimed that it had been killed by “extreme left and P.C.

crap” and “people worrying so much about offending other people”.“When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups – ‘Here’s our thought about this joke.’ Well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he added at the time.In a new interview on Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast, Seinfeld said he now regrets his comments.“I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy.

I did say that. That’s not true,” he said. “It’s not true. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re going to make the gate.

That’s comedy.“Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I make the gate to get down the hill.”He continued: “Does culture change and are their things that I use to say that [I can’t because] people are always moving [the gate]?