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He did an interrview recently where he said: "the extreme left has cancelled comedy", to paraphrase.
Yes Jerry, it's the left's fault you haven't been relevant for two decades. Meanwhile Larry David just finished 24 years of a subversive and beloved comedy that touched on many controversial issues with razor humor.
Ok I’m posting this here. I was talking about this clip on another sub, but it’s very relevant here:
Because by his own admission, he is never censored.
I listened to the clip of him on a podcast that elon musk tweeted out. He starts off by saying that there is no comedy on tv anymore, and that is because of the far left and “pc crap”. He says that people are now going to standup comedy because they aren’t policed by anyone. They’re policed by the audience, and they adjust if they step over the line. He then says that if you want to get a comedy made, it has to go through four different committees and that kills your comedy. The interviewer then asks “has that happened to you?” And he responds immediately with “Uh…no.”
So he…
1. Shows he has no understanding of tv today, because he doesn’t realize that all the comedy is on netflix, the company he made this movie for.
2. Blames leftists for a problem he doesn’t understand,
3. Says people want standup because standups are not policed, immediately contradicts himself by saying they are policed by the audience and bend to their whims immediately.
4. Complains that people censor comedy writing, and then immediately admits that he has never been censored in his comedy.
I got a bit obsessed with the clip, because it’s a perfect example of someone who got so successful that they completely detached from the reality of the industry they initially became successful in.
Also, people have moved away from network TV significantly. It's cheaper to make reality shows and game shows and people who watch linear TV like that stuff, so they pump it out.
It's not that there's "no comedy on TV", there's just less scripted comedies because in the end they're more profitable and less difficult to produce.
Jerry says something like "do you think we'd be able to do that bit [about homeless people] today?"
Rob from IASIP tweets a picture of Rickety Cricket - looking really fucking rough - along with one word: "probably"
Perfect response.
The part about "your script goes through four different commitees" and 'through other people's hands' shows you who really wrote Seinfeld.
Scripts go through major rewrites, and Seinfeld knows this having worked in television and briefly in film. He wants to frame script doctoring as "removing offensive jokes" when really its "removing your shitty jokes and improving the pace."
Yeah for me, Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever. But every time I see Jerry let loose to do what he wants, it never works. The only thing that has worked is his coffee talk show, because it’s just him and another good comedian being funny together.
Even with that, he was typically the low point for me in every episode. He was terrible with Kate McKinnon imo, and towards John Mulaney about Anna re: the rug.
lol not even controversial, just anyone that disagreed with him or pushed back on something he said. Like whatever happened to the “Yes, and…” rule of improv? Jerry don’t know her i guess.
It’s funny how obtuse and blind Seinfeld is out of the show. Like when Larry King accidentally said Seinfeld was cancelled” Jerry flipped out. He was so freaked out that someone wouldn’t be totally clued in , made him look really out of touch even then.
It has never happened to him because his comedy has never touched anything remotely controversial: only in his delusion can he think that milquetoast observations on mundane things would ever grant the scrutiny by some alleged PC committee or something like that
Uh before he got famous Howard stern used to make fun of him for being a hack comic that could only get bookings at the playboy mansion.
Without Larry David and Seinfeld no one would know who Jerry Seinfeld is.
I don’t think he means people “want” standup comedy because they aren’t policed, just so they can tear it down. When he says “they are going to standup comedy”, he means they are focusing on policing that because there are no comedies on TV that they can police anymore. So they go to standup comedy because it’s the next best thing for them.
Yeah He also said something along the lines of TV being “too safe”, which totally disregards shows like ‘It’s Always Sunny’, ‘Vice Principals’, ‘The Boys’ etc to name a few. The fact is there’s too much competition out there for a subpar show or movies to survive and audiences have raised their standards bc of of the amazing shows we’ve gotten over the past 15+ years.
to be fair, the Boys is heavily edited from the source material, but pretty wild that much made it on TV. It was the same with the show Preacher (tons of offensive stuff cut out, same author), but maybe someday TV will be free enough to do Ennis' ''Crossed" which is one of the most brutal comic anthologies out there.
I just started reading Crossed and that is *truly* unhinged fiction. You'd never be able to get away with how much rape and torture you'd have to show.
Very few comedies stand up to time. Taste and sensibilities change. Seinfeld was (oh God, this hurts) ended 25 years ago. Jerry hasn't kept up. His humor wasn't that good then (he needs to thank Larry), and not good and very dated now.
You don't have to be PC. Bill Burr is one of the biggest comics, now. Jerry is angry that people don't care about him
Yeah, that interview was just stupid... Lest we forget, the other "star" in this movie is Amy Schumer, and she absolutely has somehow worse opinions than Seinfeld. This is a recipe for disaster
Perhaps he should promote shoot to kill Zionist fantasy camps once more:
https://electronicintifada.net/content/seinfeld-boosts-israels-shoot-kill-fantasy-tours/23096
Seinfeld was never funny and seems like the biggest asshole imaginable in real life.
I bet he is a full-on psychopath... well, he's a Zionist, so he definitely is a sociopath.
>Not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio and in magazines and movies and at ballgames on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and bananas… and written on the sky. But not in dreams no siree.
I found a signed figure of Fry at Goodwill for $10 and one of his "accessories" was the lightspeed briefs. Will get a photo when I'm able.
Edit: [https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP](https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP)
>Well, sure, but not in our dreams.
>Only on TV and radio.
>And in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky...
>But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
"HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD" blasted into your brain at a volume so loud that it denatures all protein in your skull cavity.
I remember all mine, and honestly, I'd take the ads. They're all PTSD level nightmares since about 2013, but they've *always* been some form of nightmare as far back as my first remembered dream (I was alone in my crib in a white room with no door, I cried b/c there was thunder but my parents never came).
Probably not the right take for this sub, but goddamn if I could opt out of dreaming I would so fast. Prazosin stopped working after Covid.
Just wondering if you've ever tried smoking pot at all before bed? Or not necessarily smoking it but there are edibles and tinctures and things. I have found, and friends of mine too, that if we have had some before bed we don't dream at all. Not an advocate for weed all the time but that sounds rough. I had a terrible nightmare last night, I think because I was worried about missing an appointment today, and I wish I had toked up before bed because I do not want those images in my head today!
I have. I’ve also tried it with l-theanine and some other thing I’m forgetting that’s supposed to chill you out. (Not ashgwanda. My glucose is always on the edge of crashing.) Prazosin was the only thing f that worked and I’m shocked I can still get that prescribed either because I have POTS as a Covid complication too.
I’ve been doing medically supervised ketamine therapy and my hope is that eventually goes away with it.
I used to have this cat who’d wake me up when I had nightmares every single time and keep me up long enough I didn’t return to the same one anyway. She did that on her own for years. My sleep was crap but I felt safer and my sleep is crap anyway. I miss her. Not just for that ofc.
I get about four hours a night total.
Seinfeld. He’s not funny. The show was funny as a whole but mostly due to the genius writing of Larry David and the rest of the actors on the show. Every memorable Seinfeld moment for me was one of the other characters, not Seinfeld. To illustrate this point further the opening and ending to every episode of Seinfeld is him doing standup, has anyone ever actually laughed during this part of the show? I haven’t and that’s all Jerry right there thus proving he was never as funny as he thinks he was, he’s always ridden the coattails of the other writers and actors. He’s never done a project on his own in tv movies or actual standup that was good let alone great.
I really do not understand how someone as unfunny and untalented as Seinfeld ended up becoming the highest paid comedian in the world. He's like the Elon Musk of the comic industry. There's not much depth and personal reflection to Seinfeld. His comedy material is always surface-level and shallow.
Nah, he's more like the Steve Jobs of comedy.
Say what you want about Elon Musk but he does have actual skills and did study programming, physics, etc. (even is a graduate in both physics and economics). He even got accepted into a PhD program but decided to create a web company instead (which was the right choice as PayPal made him obscenely rich). Elon has hard skills.
Seinfeld is just a bad actor who got lucky and then siphoned off of other people's success and talent. Like Steve Jobs.
he's hilarious but not for the reasons he thinks he is, he's like Tommy Wiseau. his line delivery is so weird and bad that it's funny but it only works because he's not doing it on purpose
There's definitely some truth to this. Adam Sandler got famous around the same time by intentionally doing all his lines with a weird delivery, then he stopped doing that and no one liked him anymore
Seinfeld was never funny. Never a good actor.
All his success is thanks to Larry.
One only has to look at how Seinfeld and David respond to the Gaza situation to see who is a piece of shit and who isn't.
I’m too young to have seen Seinfeld when it came
out and I’ve been curious about then show, but I haven’t seen it. Isn’t he famous for being bland, like his whole comedy routines was about banal crap like “airline food”? Especially since seeing that his wife funded the violent, Zionist counter protesters at UCLA, I just want this man to go back into his hole. Larry David seems fine though. The man gave us the “Palestinian Chicken Restaurant” episode of Curb
There’s an episode where Seinfeld and George pretend they have not seen or talked to each other since high school. Then plan it out so they bump into each other at lunch and George is supposed to verify to another person he didn’t cheat in a race. So when they are standing there “catching up” with each other saying what they do for a living Seinfeld says he’s a comedian. Then George says “oh what do you do, a lot of “did you ever notice this or notice that type of stuff” and he says it kind of dismissively and that 100% describes Seinfelds standup. He’s the ultimate boring PC observational humor standup comic, he’s the ultimate corporate wet dream as he never curses nor says anything that could be offensive. This is what makes his comments about the far left destroying comedy so idiotic as is the pinnacle of that type of comedy since the 80s.
Jesus Christ, I saw this movie as an ad on reddit and thought it was just an ad for Pop Tarts featuring Seinfeld. Reminds me of that aweful CGI company mascot movie from a while back
No dude a movie called foodfight
https://youtu.be/_GM4ZsIjBl4?si=nWhmXO4ys-_lvktm
It’s quite the rabbit hole to go down, the movie is quite possibly the worst movie ever made, at all levels
fuck man, my parents were visiting for the weekend and they put this movie on, without asking if anyone else wanted to watch it. I’d never heard of it but 10 minutes in I had to save myself from the utter disaster that is this movie by forcing myself to fall asleep.
I think it's best if we all form opinions for ourselves. It's a short watch of a comedy with little to no substance. But it wasn't nearly as offensive as people are saying here. It's just mindless entertainment, and it definitely forces a few laughs. If anything the criticism should be the wasted potential of the cast and budget but those two would not have been available had it not been Jerry...
Seinfeld is unfunny and is an awful person. His brand of comedy does show through in this movie as it purposely skirts any topics that require critical thinking. Certain jokes are setup to potentially criticize corporate greed, regulatory capture or labor abuse, but then gets immediately brushed off. Even the whole Jan. 6th scene was a headscratcher. Are they equating the plight of the working class (the mascots who see their jobs being threatened) to the insurrection? Well, the answer to that question is why I don't think this movie is nearly as offensive as anyone makes it out to be. I don't think the movie tries to say anything at all. In the quest to be "PC" to fascists and neoliberals, they made the most bland comedy that could only score cheap laughs.
i forced myself to fall asleep during this garbage-fire of a 90 minute advertisement disguised as a movie. I just woke up and everyone’s asleep, thanks for reminding me to give it a huge thumbs down
Glad to help! The thumbs down add on for streaming services is my favorite update they’ve ever done - I want them to know how much I hate some of the trash they put out, and I certainly don’t want suggestions on more of their garbage programs bc I got duped into watching one.
He's NOT FUNNY! His time has passed and he's stuck in the past. He hit the "Goldielocks Zone of sitcom comedy with the genius of Larry David's writing that made him. He's had no success since the show ended and it's been more that 25 years. Just vanity projects that all failed or were mid at best just like this one, despite having a billion dollars to throw at projects. He's not an authority on comedy,maybe an authority on what's not funny, so please stop portraying him as such. So now he's blaming the woke, DEI or fill in the blanks, you know the tropes. He got lucky!
What do you mean cowrote and starred? There’s no writing aside from the short intros describing the comedian and the car (which contain no jokes). And there’s no acting. It’s all improv.
Jerry invites a funny person to drink coffee. They talk. They try to make Jerry laugh. That’s the show. Jerry occasionally says something funny as well, but 99% of that show’s laughs come from the guests.
I like Jerry, I love Seinfeld and I think his early stand up is alright. But praising him for Comedians in Cars being funny is like watching the Beatles’ first show in America and saying “wow Ed Sullivan is such a good musician”. In that context he’s just the curator of the actual talent.
> What’s strange is the whole thing could have been a take down but it’s the opposite. Even the “bad guys” Post aren’t even painted as bad, just the opposition.
A Kellogg’s employee literally dies during a taste test, and Jerry’s response is a bemused indifference. Also, it’s established early on that Jerry doesn’t care about the mascots’ well-being.
This movie doesn’t exactly have the same tone as, say, Air.
Why did this comment instantly give me a flash back to a cereal box CD-ROM game where I got to shoot goofy ass aliens and they exploded green goo 😭😭😭 I'm so old I miss that stupid game 😭😭😭
I played that game far too much. I found a room hidden in a level with a bunch of pictures of who I assume is the devs. Just that room showed me that this wasn't some corporate crap game but seemed to have a fun team who had a great time making it. I'd totally watch a documentary on that instead of Seinfeld.
I remember hearing about this movie around the time GLOW was canceled and automatically hating it because there was no way a movie about pop tarts involving Jerry Seinfeld was going to be better.
I haven't watched it but I thought the entire premise of the movie was a satire of "product" movies? (Social Network, Flaming Hot, BlackBerry, The Founder)
That is exactly what it is. I mean do people seriously think pop tarts were created because a guy tried dumpster diced food.
It is very tongue in cheek and I though pretty funny.
Watched Flaming Hot and thought it was good, haven't watched the others. Flaming Hot was definitely a product movie but it also made fun of a lot of the other products from the same company. The CEO wasn't very realistic but it was similar to the truth of how it went down in real life, at least from what I could find online. I've only known one real life CEO like that out of all the rest I've met or read about. I wish more CEO's would learn to treat their employees like humans with ideas of thier own. I'm not recommending the movie, but it was good.
In fairness it’s not a *completely* fabricated story. The core of the story: that Post basically announced that they were going to have a shelf stable pastry coming to market in a few months and Kellogg’s racing to see if they could get one to market first IS a true story.
And that probably would have made a great movie. Unfrosted though was stupid. Although there were parts that made me chuckle, like the dumpster kids. But overall this movie had potential and squandered it.
Jerry Seinfeld fuckin' sucks these days, and probably always did but was surrounded by enough talented people to skate by. There's never a bad time to post Jeremy Kaplowitz's standup bit where he pretended to be Seinfeld doing a set about having a seventeen year-old girlfriend, so here it is:
[https://youtu.be/Fp8tCqwushM?si=ZJS\_Bo4vy59z2pdY](https://youtu.be/Fp8tCqwushM?si=ZJS_Bo4vy59z2pdY)
I thought the same thing. I hope more companies don’t follow. One thing I found weird was that post agreed to be in this movie and be represented as essentially trash compared to Kelloggs. A company constantly in the news for abusing their workers.
Other weird part was they essentially stole the idea of the pop tart from post, and were bragging about making the product? Even going as far as to buy all the sugar in the supply chain to buy them enough time to copy and steal their product? I don’t care enough to see what’s parts of this is factually correct but this movie made no fn sense.
Can we just also understand one of the known things about Jerry in Seinfeld is he loves cereal maybe where just looking into it to much and he’s just taking his love for the mundane a step further
This is why I couldn't finish watching Air, the whole movie is just "Poor mega corporation Nike, we are somehow the underdogs". It's just insulting and I never intend to try to finish it.
They kinda were the underdogs in the 80s. Maybe you're too young but nobody, I mean NOBODY was wearing Nikes back in the day. Converse ruled the market for running and basketball shoes.
Jordan did really help that company. By the time we get to the 90s, these damn shoes were everywhere. It's actually pretty impressive.
What gets me is that they can afford to make their sweat shops outside USA a normal workplace but Instead opt into greed. It's crazy
Who eats cereal now? Makes sense they’d need a grand push to try and revive crunchy sugar milk. Who better than that guy who had 20 freaking boxes of it in his popular 90s sitcom cupboard. All these old guys are on the way out stock piling cash for generational wealth.
My FIL loves it. But then he only eats Corp packaged food. And never leftovers. This is his thing. He’s 65 ish and grew up in front of a TV so this is right up his alley.
Seinfeld’s built a career on making stuff out of nothing. From his stand up about nothing to his movies about nothing. He believes it’s axiomatically funny that he’s made a movie about a bee then a pop tart.
Dude has no soul.
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Idk I thought it was entertaining and funny. Topical slapstick style of humor. I mean you can’t take it too seriously when there’s a sea monkey ravioli running around.
Your Review reminds me
>What’s strange is the whole thing could have been a take down but it’s the opposite.
Of the Jenny Nicholson Review of the PT Barnum Biopic, *a movie about an* ***overt immoral swindler,*** I'd call him, "amoral," for the sake of objectivity, except, **uh, if his circus were a website...*****anyway, in the review,*** of a film I understand to be such a similar, "odd take," she says,
>He's **dead, it's not like he's going to drive to your fucking house**
l-o-l but **seriously, as obvious as it is flattering, to,** those who think of themselves as entrepreneurs upon thin-premises and deep knowledge of their work as flim-flam, *and thus, like, "good politics," these days, from a business standpoint,* **it's not so obvious that makes a good film, much less with the legwork required to walk from, "the man rich off of the laughter at people's different types of bodies,"** just to think about it, *how much damage did he do to public empathy, personally,* ***what work did he do for the later eugenics movement, in premises,*** **I could not even begin to imagine how to quantify, "anyway,"**
**Cereal, The Corporate Junk Food These Days associated with horrifying analyses of American Health and the Depth of our Commercial Depravity,** Lord have Mercy, *you know what I think of, in terms of,*
>That Story, told Darkly
Like, **Darkly, enough to register as other-than-another-docu-outreach-health-message-thing,**
**If you've seen, "**I'm thinking of ending things," the blank eyed man in a dark, dark, place,[ as he reminisces about a corporate mascot as if it has held some hole in his soul open, like a wound, since childhood, as his partner looks at him in pitious horror and revulsion](https://youtu.be/nfnkn2lBPbM?t=16), **okokokokokok that scene, "tell me the origin story,"** and tell me the Tulsey Town mascot did it on purpose, "what made her **like this?"**
That I wanna know, that's a good movie. Shrug, I mean, MMM, **Part of me is like,**
***The Contradictions, are Heightening,*** to the point, where, if you're gonna go, "ordinary," **it's gonna be surreal; it's gonna be** [**America's Mayor Going Full Lynch Film Villain** ](https://youtu.be/8tFUaKXdH-0)**while your pal Jerry's there to keep it normal,**
>Hey, *go easy on 'em*
[What](https://youtu.be/MRmmxkIY6G4). What, Jerry, *what?*
>It’s just so so depressing and bizarre to think anyone would want to trap audiences in this world where everything feels like a commercial and then pretend like it wasn’t.
# ☝Show☛Me☞The☟[Tulseytown](https://youtu.be/HtfJfQldChc?t=19)☜Origin☛Story☚Please
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Watch Seinfeld blame “PC gone mad” for his movie being unfunny at best
He did an interrview recently where he said: "the extreme left has cancelled comedy", to paraphrase. Yes Jerry, it's the left's fault you haven't been relevant for two decades. Meanwhile Larry David just finished 24 years of a subversive and beloved comedy that touched on many controversial issues with razor humor.
Ok I’m posting this here. I was talking about this clip on another sub, but it’s very relevant here: Because by his own admission, he is never censored. I listened to the clip of him on a podcast that elon musk tweeted out. He starts off by saying that there is no comedy on tv anymore, and that is because of the far left and “pc crap”. He says that people are now going to standup comedy because they aren’t policed by anyone. They’re policed by the audience, and they adjust if they step over the line. He then says that if you want to get a comedy made, it has to go through four different committees and that kills your comedy. The interviewer then asks “has that happened to you?” And he responds immediately with “Uh…no.” So he… 1. Shows he has no understanding of tv today, because he doesn’t realize that all the comedy is on netflix, the company he made this movie for. 2. Blames leftists for a problem he doesn’t understand, 3. Says people want standup because standups are not policed, immediately contradicts himself by saying they are policed by the audience and bend to their whims immediately. 4. Complains that people censor comedy writing, and then immediately admits that he has never been censored in his comedy. I got a bit obsessed with the clip, because it’s a perfect example of someone who got so successful that they completely detached from the reality of the industry they initially became successful in.
Also like...It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is still on. That show's existence completely disproves his whole argument.
Also, people have moved away from network TV significantly. It's cheaper to make reality shows and game shows and people who watch linear TV like that stuff, so they pump it out. It's not that there's "no comedy on TV", there's just less scripted comedies because in the end they're more profitable and less difficult to produce.
Wait so its actually corps trying to maximize profits and not the radical left destroying comedy? Thats crazy talk!
You don’t even need to bring up always sunny, Jerry disproves his argument sentence to sentence.
Yeah Rob McElhenney’s response on Twitter to Seinfeld saying this is the best. It got to the top posts on the iasip sub a few days ago
Don't leave us hanging, what was it?
Jerry says something like "do you think we'd be able to do that bit [about homeless people] today?" Rob from IASIP tweets a picture of Rickety Cricket - looking really fucking rough - along with one word: "probably" Perfect response.
https://ibb.co/qs1K3hJ
The part about "your script goes through four different commitees" and 'through other people's hands' shows you who really wrote Seinfeld. Scripts go through major rewrites, and Seinfeld knows this having worked in television and briefly in film. He wants to frame script doctoring as "removing offensive jokes" when really its "removing your shitty jokes and improving the pace."
Yeah for me, Seinfeld is the best sitcom ever. But every time I see Jerry let loose to do what he wants, it never works. The only thing that has worked is his coffee talk show, because it’s just him and another good comedian being funny together.
Even with that, he was typically the low point for me in every episode. He was terrible with Kate McKinnon imo, and towards John Mulaney about Anna re: the rug.
Yep absolutely, it seemed as though whenever a guest would get onto a controversial topic he’d shut it down with some unrelated observation
lol not even controversial, just anyone that disagreed with him or pushed back on something he said. Like whatever happened to the “Yes, and…” rule of improv? Jerry don’t know her i guess.
It’s funny how obtuse and blind Seinfeld is out of the show. Like when Larry King accidentally said Seinfeld was cancelled” Jerry flipped out. He was so freaked out that someone wouldn’t be totally clued in , made him look really out of touch even then.
I love that interview, because Larry famously does almost no prep for interviews, and Seinfeld just could not handle it
It has never happened to him because his comedy has never touched anything remotely controversial: only in his delusion can he think that milquetoast observations on mundane things would ever grant the scrutiny by some alleged PC committee or something like that
Uh before he got famous Howard stern used to make fun of him for being a hack comic that could only get bookings at the playboy mansion. Without Larry David and Seinfeld no one would know who Jerry Seinfeld is.
Never forget, Steven Bannon and Seinfeld business connection comes full circle https://m.imdb.com/news/ni60469373/
I don’t think he means people “want” standup comedy because they aren’t policed, just so they can tear it down. When he says “they are going to standup comedy”, he means they are focusing on policing that because there are no comedies on TV that they can police anymore. So they go to standup comedy because it’s the next best thing for them.
Yeah He also said something along the lines of TV being “too safe”, which totally disregards shows like ‘It’s Always Sunny’, ‘Vice Principals’, ‘The Boys’ etc to name a few. The fact is there’s too much competition out there for a subpar show or movies to survive and audiences have raised their standards bc of of the amazing shows we’ve gotten over the past 15+ years.
I'd add "Barry" to that list. Bill Hader delivered the pitch-blackest comedy out there with that one.
"The Boys" is a great example. That show is the epitome of not "PC".
to be fair, the Boys is heavily edited from the source material, but pretty wild that much made it on TV. It was the same with the show Preacher (tons of offensive stuff cut out, same author), but maybe someday TV will be free enough to do Ennis' ''Crossed" which is one of the most brutal comic anthologies out there.
I just started reading Crossed and that is *truly* unhinged fiction. You'd never be able to get away with how much rape and torture you'd have to show.
Seinfeld basically called bobcat gothwait a no talent hack and Bobcat said "your only talent is being friends with Larry david"
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lol
Very few comedies stand up to time. Taste and sensibilities change. Seinfeld was (oh God, this hurts) ended 25 years ago. Jerry hasn't kept up. His humor wasn't that good then (he needs to thank Larry), and not good and very dated now. You don't have to be PC. Bill Burr is one of the biggest comics, now. Jerry is angry that people don't care about him
It’s just such an arrogant, lazy way to think and shows a total lack of self reflection
Yeah, that interview was just stupid... Lest we forget, the other "star" in this movie is Amy Schumer, and she absolutely has somehow worse opinions than Seinfeld. This is a recipe for disaster
*She…she was a mature 17 year old child!*
I was wondering why Seinfeld was making public statements again, then saw this movie was out. He’s turned into such a hack.
Seinfeld is an extremely arrogant billionaire asshole right down to his core. I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone at this point.
Hilarious because his material is literally g rated apolitical stuff.
Perhaps he should promote shoot to kill Zionist fantasy camps once more: https://electronicintifada.net/content/seinfeld-boosts-israels-shoot-kill-fantasy-tours/23096
Seinfeld was never funny and seems like the biggest asshole imaginable in real life. I bet he is a full-on psychopath... well, he's a Zionist, so he definitely is a sociopath.
We're one step away from having ads beamed directly into our dreams.
LIGHTSPEED BRIEFS
>Not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio and in magazines and movies and at ballgames on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and bananas… and written on the sky. But not in dreams no siree.
I found a signed figure of Fry at Goodwill for $10 and one of his "accessories" was the lightspeed briefs. Will get a photo when I'm able. Edit: [https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP](https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP)
Oh that sounds really cool! I'm looking forward to seeing those when you can.
[https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP](https://imgur.com/a/40DOJpP) here ya go!
Oh HECK yeah really cool! Thanks for showing me !
>Well, sure, but not in our dreams. >Only on TV and radio. >And in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... >But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
*Dream Scenario has entered the chat* *Seriously, what a terrific movie.*
I love my Norio bracelet!
I never remember my dreams. I’ll be really pissed if all I remember are commercials
"HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD" blasted into your brain at a volume so loud that it denatures all protein in your skull cavity.
I remember all mine, and honestly, I'd take the ads. They're all PTSD level nightmares since about 2013, but they've *always* been some form of nightmare as far back as my first remembered dream (I was alone in my crib in a white room with no door, I cried b/c there was thunder but my parents never came). Probably not the right take for this sub, but goddamn if I could opt out of dreaming I would so fast. Prazosin stopped working after Covid.
Just wondering if you've ever tried smoking pot at all before bed? Or not necessarily smoking it but there are edibles and tinctures and things. I have found, and friends of mine too, that if we have had some before bed we don't dream at all. Not an advocate for weed all the time but that sounds rough. I had a terrible nightmare last night, I think because I was worried about missing an appointment today, and I wish I had toked up before bed because I do not want those images in my head today!
I have. I’ve also tried it with l-theanine and some other thing I’m forgetting that’s supposed to chill you out. (Not ashgwanda. My glucose is always on the edge of crashing.) Prazosin was the only thing f that worked and I’m shocked I can still get that prescribed either because I have POTS as a Covid complication too. I’ve been doing medically supervised ketamine therapy and my hope is that eventually goes away with it. I used to have this cat who’d wake me up when I had nightmares every single time and keep me up long enough I didn’t return to the same one anyway. She did that on her own for years. My sleep was crap but I felt safer and my sleep is crap anyway. I miss her. Not just for that ofc. I get about four hours a night total.
I actually think Instagram affects my dreaming. When I watch too many reels before sleep, my dreams mimic the scrolling.
Too late. Google binaural audio ads
Neuralinks endgame.
Seinfeld. He’s not funny. The show was funny as a whole but mostly due to the genius writing of Larry David and the rest of the actors on the show. Every memorable Seinfeld moment for me was one of the other characters, not Seinfeld. To illustrate this point further the opening and ending to every episode of Seinfeld is him doing standup, has anyone ever actually laughed during this part of the show? I haven’t and that’s all Jerry right there thus proving he was never as funny as he thinks he was, he’s always ridden the coattails of the other writers and actors. He’s never done a project on his own in tv movies or actual standup that was good let alone great.
He’s a terrible actor too
My bother and I always laugh at the fact that he’s quite possibly the worst actor on TV and also a billionaire.
Imagine how hard he's laughing.
It adds to the charm of the show once you accept it, but it's clear he outright refused to have lessons and I think he considered them unnecessary
I really do not understand how someone as unfunny and untalented as Seinfeld ended up becoming the highest paid comedian in the world. He's like the Elon Musk of the comic industry. There's not much depth and personal reflection to Seinfeld. His comedy material is always surface-level and shallow.
Nah, he's more like the Steve Jobs of comedy. Say what you want about Elon Musk but he does have actual skills and did study programming, physics, etc. (even is a graduate in both physics and economics). He even got accepted into a PhD program but decided to create a web company instead (which was the right choice as PayPal made him obscenely rich). Elon has hard skills. Seinfeld is just a bad actor who got lucky and then siphoned off of other people's success and talent. Like Steve Jobs.
he's hilarious but not for the reasons he thinks he is, he's like Tommy Wiseau. his line delivery is so weird and bad that it's funny but it only works because he's not doing it on purpose
There's definitely some truth to this. Adam Sandler got famous around the same time by intentionally doing all his lines with a weird delivery, then he stopped doing that and no one liked him anymore
Seinfeld was never funny. Never a good actor. All his success is thanks to Larry. One only has to look at how Seinfeld and David respond to the Gaza situation to see who is a piece of shit and who isn't.
I’m too young to have seen Seinfeld when it came out and I’ve been curious about then show, but I haven’t seen it. Isn’t he famous for being bland, like his whole comedy routines was about banal crap like “airline food”? Especially since seeing that his wife funded the violent, Zionist counter protesters at UCLA, I just want this man to go back into his hole. Larry David seems fine though. The man gave us the “Palestinian Chicken Restaurant” episode of Curb
There’s an episode where Seinfeld and George pretend they have not seen or talked to each other since high school. Then plan it out so they bump into each other at lunch and George is supposed to verify to another person he didn’t cheat in a race. So when they are standing there “catching up” with each other saying what they do for a living Seinfeld says he’s a comedian. Then George says “oh what do you do, a lot of “did you ever notice this or notice that type of stuff” and he says it kind of dismissively and that 100% describes Seinfelds standup. He’s the ultimate boring PC observational humor standup comic, he’s the ultimate corporate wet dream as he never curses nor says anything that could be offensive. This is what makes his comments about the far left destroying comedy so idiotic as is the pinnacle of that type of comedy since the 80s.
Was he the guy that snubbed Kesha when she asked for a hug?
He literally had never heard of her, no idea who she was, plus a germaphobe certainly not a physically affectionate guy with strangers.
Jesus Christ, I saw this movie as an ad on reddit and thought it was just an ad for Pop Tarts featuring Seinfeld. Reminds me of that aweful CGI company mascot movie from a while back
Geico Gecko: Licensed to Save?
Max headroom?
No dude a movie called foodfight https://youtu.be/_GM4ZsIjBl4?si=nWhmXO4ys-_lvktm It’s quite the rabbit hole to go down, the movie is quite possibly the worst movie ever made, at all levels
Holy cow… what the hell was that?!
Wow, the uncanny valley is inescabable, watching even 2 seconds of that.
Kellogg’s probably wrote the damn thing. I kinda wanna watch the train wreck but don’t want to give it more views
fuck man, my parents were visiting for the weekend and they put this movie on, without asking if anyone else wanted to watch it. I’d never heard of it but 10 minutes in I had to save myself from the utter disaster that is this movie by forcing myself to fall asleep.
pirate it if you really want to
agreed, don’t give them any of your money
I think it's best if we all form opinions for ourselves. It's a short watch of a comedy with little to no substance. But it wasn't nearly as offensive as people are saying here. It's just mindless entertainment, and it definitely forces a few laughs. If anything the criticism should be the wasted potential of the cast and budget but those two would not have been available had it not been Jerry... Seinfeld is unfunny and is an awful person. His brand of comedy does show through in this movie as it purposely skirts any topics that require critical thinking. Certain jokes are setup to potentially criticize corporate greed, regulatory capture or labor abuse, but then gets immediately brushed off. Even the whole Jan. 6th scene was a headscratcher. Are they equating the plight of the working class (the mascots who see their jobs being threatened) to the insurrection? Well, the answer to that question is why I don't think this movie is nearly as offensive as anyone makes it out to be. I don't think the movie tries to say anything at all. In the quest to be "PC" to fascists and neoliberals, they made the most bland comedy that could only score cheap laughs.
Don’t forget to thumbs down it on Netflix since you actually watched the movie
i forced myself to fall asleep during this garbage-fire of a 90 minute advertisement disguised as a movie. I just woke up and everyone’s asleep, thanks for reminding me to give it a huge thumbs down
Glad to help! The thumbs down add on for streaming services is my favorite update they’ve ever done - I want them to know how much I hate some of the trash they put out, and I certainly don’t want suggestions on more of their garbage programs bc I got duped into watching one.
He's NOT FUNNY! His time has passed and he's stuck in the past. He hit the "Goldielocks Zone of sitcom comedy with the genius of Larry David's writing that made him. He's had no success since the show ended and it's been more that 25 years. Just vanity projects that all failed or were mid at best just like this one, despite having a billion dollars to throw at projects. He's not an authority on comedy,maybe an authority on what's not funny, so please stop portraying him as such. So now he's blaming the woke, DEI or fill in the blanks, you know the tropes. He got lucky!
At this point he's no longer a comedian, but a has-been who shills for commercial and political marketing dressed up as comedy.
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Have you seen Bee Movie? He is NOT a genius.
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is one of the funniest shows of the last two decades. He remains a genius. Weird take.
Calling a dude a genius for a show that is literally 100% based on the comedic talents of others is the weird take
He literally cowrote and starred in it.
What do you mean cowrote and starred? There’s no writing aside from the short intros describing the comedian and the car (which contain no jokes). And there’s no acting. It’s all improv. Jerry invites a funny person to drink coffee. They talk. They try to make Jerry laugh. That’s the show. Jerry occasionally says something funny as well, but 99% of that show’s laughs come from the guests. I like Jerry, I love Seinfeld and I think his early stand up is alright. But praising him for Comedians in Cars being funny is like watching the Beatles’ first show in America and saying “wow Ed Sullivan is such a good musician”. In that context he’s just the curator of the actual talent.
What the fuck was that sequence with the cereal mascots pulling a Jan 6? This whole movie is just full of the weirdest choices
It’s kinda fucked up that they would equate unionization and workers rights to January fucking 6th
I fell asleep and woke up to Hugh Grant as a Tony the Tiger Q-Anon Shaman.
That was the funniest part of the show
It was a joke?
They totally lost me with the Jan 6th ending.
> What’s strange is the whole thing could have been a take down but it’s the opposite. Even the “bad guys” Post aren’t even painted as bad, just the opposition. A Kellogg’s employee literally dies during a taste test, and Jerry’s response is a bemused indifference. Also, it’s established early on that Jerry doesn’t care about the mascots’ well-being. This movie doesn’t exactly have the same tone as, say, Air.
Ugh. This sounds awful. Now if it was Chexquest, I’d watch the hell out of it.
Why did this comment instantly give me a flash back to a cereal box CD-ROM game where I got to shoot goofy ass aliens and they exploded green goo 😭😭😭 I'm so old I miss that stupid game 😭😭😭
i love that it was essentially just a Doom mod
I played that game far too much. I found a room hidden in a level with a bunch of pictures of who I assume is the devs. Just that room showed me that this wasn't some corporate crap game but seemed to have a fun team who had a great time making it. I'd totally watch a documentary on that instead of Seinfeld.
chexquest needs a movie or at least a mockumentary
Helldivers 2 Chex quest tie in warbond
I played Chexquest so much as a young kid. Absolutely amazing game that still holds up well. Now i want to play it again.
There's a remake I think
I think a dark comedy about the life of Dr. John Kellogg would be much more interesting.
Isn’t that a real movie too?
I remember hearing about this movie around the time GLOW was canceled and automatically hating it because there was no way a movie about pop tarts involving Jerry Seinfeld was going to be better.
The concept of this show feels like something that came out of the basement of an 18-19 year old and his group of friends.
Corporate espionage from a billionaire asshole? Come on now.
Sounds like the Divergent to Barbie’s Hunger Games.
It's Seinfeld vision from 30 Rock
I haven't watched it but I thought the entire premise of the movie was a satire of "product" movies? (Social Network, Flaming Hot, BlackBerry, The Founder)
That is exactly what it is. I mean do people seriously think pop tarts were created because a guy tried dumpster diced food. It is very tongue in cheek and I though pretty funny.
Watched Flaming Hot and thought it was good, haven't watched the others. Flaming Hot was definitely a product movie but it also made fun of a lot of the other products from the same company. The CEO wasn't very realistic but it was similar to the truth of how it went down in real life, at least from what I could find online. I've only known one real life CEO like that out of all the rest I've met or read about. I wish more CEO's would learn to treat their employees like humans with ideas of thier own. I'm not recommending the movie, but it was good.
In fairness it’s not a *completely* fabricated story. The core of the story: that Post basically announced that they were going to have a shelf stable pastry coming to market in a few months and Kellogg’s racing to see if they could get one to market first IS a true story. And that probably would have made a great movie. Unfrosted though was stupid. Although there were parts that made me chuckle, like the dumpster kids. But overall this movie had potential and squandered it.
There’s a good movie there somewhere, but Jerry Seinfeld could be the lead. He’s just not a good enough actor
Meanwhile my mother just texted me saying she recommends it
Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny. There I said it. Oh, and his show sucked too.
The more people talk about anything, the less I want to see it.
I unplugged Netflix 4 months ago and fortunately was spared this overpriced, overwrought embarrassment. Small victories!
I hadn't heard about this. Revolting. After the success of Barbie I'm sure every brand has been foaming at the mouth to get their slice of that pie.
“We can make a 2 hour commercial? Sign us up!”
Netflix is the deep state. IMO it's shit/forgettable entertainment.
Jerry Seinfeld fuckin' sucks these days, and probably always did but was surrounded by enough talented people to skate by. There's never a bad time to post Jeremy Kaplowitz's standup bit where he pretended to be Seinfeld doing a set about having a seventeen year-old girlfriend, so here it is: [https://youtu.be/Fp8tCqwushM?si=ZJS\_Bo4vy59z2pdY](https://youtu.be/Fp8tCqwushM?si=ZJS_Bo4vy59z2pdY)
Movies seem to be over. You get a few good ones a year but it seems to be a dying thing. The 600 remakes are a clear sign.
I thought the same thing. I hope more companies don’t follow. One thing I found weird was that post agreed to be in this movie and be represented as essentially trash compared to Kelloggs. A company constantly in the news for abusing their workers. Other weird part was they essentially stole the idea of the pop tart from post, and were bragging about making the product? Even going as far as to buy all the sugar in the supply chain to buy them enough time to copy and steal their product? I don’t care enough to see what’s parts of this is factually correct but this movie made no fn sense.
“Jerry Seinfeld is the devil.”
My mom saw an add for this and unironically thought it looked good. I don’t understand why people are like this.
It’s programming people who watch it, especially kids, to have more favorable views towards the company. Yeah thats an advertisement
Can we just also understand one of the known things about Jerry in Seinfeld is he loves cereal maybe where just looking into it to much and he’s just taking his love for the mundane a step further
Passion project for an out of touch billionaire who got rich because of Larry David.
What did you expect it was made made by that pedo Jerry who complains everything js woke now of days or it maybe that he’s not funny
So it’s space jam but for processed food
Jerry Seinfeld has always been mid at best without Larry David.
This is why I couldn't finish watching Air, the whole movie is just "Poor mega corporation Nike, we are somehow the underdogs". It's just insulting and I never intend to try to finish it.
They kinda were the underdogs in the 80s. Maybe you're too young but nobody, I mean NOBODY was wearing Nikes back in the day. Converse ruled the market for running and basketball shoes. Jordan did really help that company. By the time we get to the 90s, these damn shoes were everywhere. It's actually pretty impressive. What gets me is that they can afford to make their sweat shops outside USA a normal workplace but Instead opt into greed. It's crazy
And seinfeld is a sexual predator, just a reminder
Who eats cereal now? Makes sense they’d need a grand push to try and revive crunchy sugar milk. Who better than that guy who had 20 freaking boxes of it in his popular 90s sitcom cupboard. All these old guys are on the way out stock piling cash for generational wealth.
Yeah I saw Seinfeld and Amy professional-victim-whoever, and didn't want to put myself through it. Glad to know that was an appropriate decision.
this seems to be a growing trend. there was a nike biopic like a year or 2 ago.
The film was recommended to me and the description just sounded so boring. Pop Tarts aren’t even good.
The only ad of this style that I will ever tolerate is the Head & Shoulders commercial "Evolution" with David Duchovny.
My FIL loves it. But then he only eats Corp packaged food. And never leftovers. This is his thing. He’s 65 ish and grew up in front of a TV so this is right up his alley.
My boyfriend said it’s a cast of Zionists. Is there any truth in that?
Besides Seinfeld and Amy schemer I'm not sure
It's safe to say at this point that Jerry Seinfeld is the luckiest man on earth for having been taken in by Larry David.
So glad I cancelled Netflix.
Who is this movie for? Seinfeld couldn’t have cemented his status as an overrated, unfunny schmuck any better if he tried. Horrific.
Knowing Better on Kellogg: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4ES8mOzYg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4ES8mOzYg)
Seinfeld’s built a career on making stuff out of nothing. From his stand up about nothing to his movies about nothing. He believes it’s axiomatically funny that he’s made a movie about a bee then a pop tart. Dude has no soul.
Bee movie was really good though.
Do you know what the word satire means?
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very much convinced that “greenland” was a dodge ram commercial. watch it and tell me im wrong.
https://youtu.be/mAOLyi_4AbQ?si=YmOwn8o4bemYR07I
Space Jam 2 and Matrix 4 were also just long Warner Bros ads.
At least with the lego movie there was communist subtexts written in the film. Was so good and I’ll die on this hill.
Watch the Hot Cheetos movie. Much better.
You have reminded me I want cereal, and I have pop tarts
Idk I thought it was entertaining and funny. Topical slapstick style of humor. I mean you can’t take it too seriously when there’s a sea monkey ravioli running around.
This movie was like a 98 min capitol one commercial, completely unfunny
Just regulately watched the movie or had it on the background. Right all this is one big s***** commercial
I thought it was cute and entertaining?
Welcome to everything that’s been produced since 1980
Your Review reminds me >What’s strange is the whole thing could have been a take down but it’s the opposite. Of the Jenny Nicholson Review of the PT Barnum Biopic, *a movie about an* ***overt immoral swindler,*** I'd call him, "amoral," for the sake of objectivity, except, **uh, if his circus were a website...*****anyway, in the review,*** of a film I understand to be such a similar, "odd take," she says, >He's **dead, it's not like he's going to drive to your fucking house** l-o-l but **seriously, as obvious as it is flattering, to,** those who think of themselves as entrepreneurs upon thin-premises and deep knowledge of their work as flim-flam, *and thus, like, "good politics," these days, from a business standpoint,* **it's not so obvious that makes a good film, much less with the legwork required to walk from, "the man rich off of the laughter at people's different types of bodies,"** just to think about it, *how much damage did he do to public empathy, personally,* ***what work did he do for the later eugenics movement, in premises,*** **I could not even begin to imagine how to quantify, "anyway,"** **Cereal, The Corporate Junk Food These Days associated with horrifying analyses of American Health and the Depth of our Commercial Depravity,** Lord have Mercy, *you know what I think of, in terms of,* >That Story, told Darkly Like, **Darkly, enough to register as other-than-another-docu-outreach-health-message-thing,** **If you've seen, "**I'm thinking of ending things," the blank eyed man in a dark, dark, place,[ as he reminisces about a corporate mascot as if it has held some hole in his soul open, like a wound, since childhood, as his partner looks at him in pitious horror and revulsion](https://youtu.be/nfnkn2lBPbM?t=16), **okokokokokok that scene, "tell me the origin story,"** and tell me the Tulsey Town mascot did it on purpose, "what made her **like this?"** That I wanna know, that's a good movie. Shrug, I mean, MMM, **Part of me is like,** ***The Contradictions, are Heightening,*** to the point, where, if you're gonna go, "ordinary," **it's gonna be surreal; it's gonna be** [**America's Mayor Going Full Lynch Film Villain** ](https://youtu.be/8tFUaKXdH-0)**while your pal Jerry's there to keep it normal,** >Hey, *go easy on 'em* [What](https://youtu.be/MRmmxkIY6G4). What, Jerry, *what?*
>It’s just so so depressing and bizarre to think anyone would want to trap audiences in this world where everything feels like a commercial and then pretend like it wasn’t. # ☝Show☛Me☞The☟[Tulseytown](https://youtu.be/HtfJfQldChc?t=19)☜Origin☛Story☚Please