Louis-Dreyfus’ interview with Kara Swisher followed her profile in The New York Times from earlier this month in which she made headlines for saying it’s a “red flag” when comedians complain about political correctness. While she never mentioned her “Seinfeld” co-star Jerry Seinfeld by name, her interview was published soon after he went viral for blaming the “extreme left and P.C. culture” for killing TV comedy because “people [are now] worrying so much about offending other people.”

“To have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing,” Louis-Dreyfus told The Times. “It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result. When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else.”

If you think PC culture is hindering your ability to make jokes, maybe you aren’t that much of a comedy genius

Yeah what's the deal with not being allowed to drop the N word anymore, humor is dead! /s

Impossible to be funny now? Maybe git gud

Conan O'Brien had an interview I think with Taylor Tomlinson where they talked about this topic.

Their conclusion was that comics that complain about it being harder to do comedy are just lazy.

It's always been hard. Even if it's true that there are less topics that you can touch, it means that you have to dig deeper in the well you can. It's your job as a comic to do that hard work, not the audience's job to laugh at your shit joke.

Conan has been doing comedy his whole life and talks about jokes that do great one night and jokes that bomb the next. Comics need to learn to read the room and adjust their jokes accordingly.

I think most of these comedians getting in trouble for being politically incorrect are just not being funny. The biggest sin of Chappelle’s standup, IMO, was that his jokes weren’t funny. Just played out conservative jokes.

People who claim humor has died because of PC culture, only know how to be funny at the expense of others.

She made me laugh in a movie about her dying child. Truly one of the greats.

Comedians who got wealthy decades ago: Am I out of touch? No, it's the culture that's too PC!

Thank you for posting here!

Comedians who find it hard to strike home with "offensive" jokes should try the opposite approach for once, those whose jokes center around economic struggles and making fun of terrible people seem to be doing just fine.

As far as stand up, I watched plenty of last comic standing at local events ruining my voice. Comedy is hard. People complaining should retire and let others shine.

Some bits are timeless, most go rancid after a decade or so. Anti woke comics are just as cringy as the sjw ones. If everyone in the audience is cheering and clapping but not laughing, that comic sucks ass. I wanna laugh so hard I puke. Whatever gets me there.

Jokes have a part you believe.

"Eat the rich" is a gag about class disparity and cannibalism. But it's only joking about the cannibalism.

Assholes think 'you can joke about anything!' means comedy can never be hateful or hurtful, because they only understand comedy as cruelty you're not allowed to get mad at. If Dave Chappelle keeps shitting on trans people, onstage, well that's gotta be fine, because it's onstage. He's a comedian. And therefore a nihilist. He doesn't mean things when he says words! No matter what he also says offstage.

In reality - you can get away with anything, so long as audiences trust you don't mean it. This is why people get a free pass to demean their own ingroup. We assume folks aren't racist about themselves. But with enough context - even that can break. Human beings are fantastic at discerning meaning. So even hilariously clever phrasing can't stop deeply bigoted stereotypes from piercing the social expectations that make stand-up work, and leave people questioning the bit.

How pathetic is it that certain comedians are mad because the audience won't laugh at their jokes?

If Anthony Jeselnik can still go out there and make the jokes he does, then its not that people are not laughing at your offensive joke, they just not laughing at your shit joke.

Its just a skill issue.

Def might be a hard time for Jerry, his latest movie looks terrible

Louis-Dreyfus also is the daughter of billionaire financier Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, who was reported to be worth $4 billion at the time of his death in 2016.

I’m a fucking actively-performing stand-up comic and now is the best (and onlyest) time to be funny!

(And if you’re checking my comment history, thinking “hey, you can’t be two things, you can’t be a beige camry haver and a stand-up comic, I assure you, I can. In fact, I would say the beige camry is the quintessential broke-ass underpaid performer car. But it’s also completely paid off, so neener.)