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[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago

Has he? Last I heard he was still complaining that "yOu CoUlDnT dO sEiNfElD tOdAy BeCaUsE wOkE" with Rob McElhenney begging to differ.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/jerry-seinfeld-said-regrets-comments-blaming-extreme-left-ruining-come-rcna175678

Hopefully that link isn't broken or bad. But yeah, he basically said he was wrong and out of touch. And that he could stand to make an effort to get with the times.

His style of comedy has always been about finding where the current edge is and seeing how far you can cross it and still be funny. But the drawback is that the edge moves. So you have to keep seeing where it is, and what you said 10 years ago probably isn't funny anymore. It's normal to get frustrated when something you put effort and work into is no longer seen as a good thing even though it was liked well enough at the time. But he really should have expected that result. And I think he knew that when he made it, but had since got caught up in the false validation that can come from being out of touch.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago

Gosh. I am unironically impressed, it's rare for people to actually take stuff back and say they were wrong. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Aside:

Representatives for Seinfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Weird how it's impossible for celebrities to just be taken at their word without a representative being contacted for clarification.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What made him unique is that he'd walk that line, but do it without profanity or theatrics, so it seemed like he was very tame. In fact a lot of what he was doing was right on the line.

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