I don’t know if Seinfeld “gets it” or just knows his own shtick. Politics and comedy mix fine, many excellent comedians have stuck mostly to politics. But there’s a method, you can’t stick to one side, you always have to be willing to hit whoever is charge no matter you’re opinion of them. Seinfeld was never political though, he’s observational, he’s from the “dja ever notice” school, there’s no good leverage into politics in his style, and it’s not in his talent pool.
RE: Politics and comedy mix fine, many excellent comedians have stuck mostly to politics. But there’s a method, you can’t stick to one side, you always have to be willing to hit whoever is charge no matter you’re opinion of them.
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OK, tell me, is this scene from a 1940 Bob Hope film “The Ghost Breakers” ,considered funny or insulting to Democrats?
In the scene shown, Larry Lawrence (played by Bob Hope) and Mary Carter (played by Paulette Goddard) inquire of Geoff Montgomery (Richard Carlson) about the nature of creatures known as “zombies,” providing the set-up for a Bob Hope zinger:
See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4
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Lawrence: “You live here?”
Montgomery: “Yes.”
Lawrence: “Then maybe you know what a zombie is”
Montgomery: “When a person dies and is buried, its seems there are certain voodoo priests who … who have the power to bring him back to life.”
Carter: “How horrible!”
Montgomery: “It’s worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.”
Lawrence: “You mean like Democrats?”