Posted on 05/14/2018 5:54:13 AM PDT by rktman
Jerry Seinfeld isn’t interested in Donald Trump jokes. The comedian behind the legendary Seinfeld sitcom sat down with David Letterman for an upcoming episode of the Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Perhaps hopefully, Letterman wondered, “Do you do Trump stuff when you go out?”
Seinfeld shut down this topic by humorously changing the subject: “No, it doesn’t interest me. I do a lot of raisin stuff.” He joked:
I just think that it’s interesting that after 80 years, Sun-Maid finally went, 'Hey, why don’t we put some chocolate on it?' Imagine not thinking of that for 80 years. So that really gets me excited, that people pay me to talk about those kinds of things.
Letterman is an ardent liberal. Earlier in the clip, he praised Michelle Wolf’s angry White House Correspondents Dinner performance: “I really had great admiration for the fact that she was able to just walk into that room and decimate the place.”
Seinfeld responded that he didn’t know Wolf and offered only vague, general compliments to her.
The TV star has a history of not putting up with political correctness. In 2015, Seinfeld said of colleges: “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me don’t go near colleges — they’re so PC.”
According to USA Today, he derided: “[The younger generation] just want to use these words. ‘That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice.’ They don’t even know what they’re talking about.”
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One of his girlfriends/flunkies was the real talent anyway.
He’s been a POS since at least November 2000, when one of his best buddies, George “Aw, gee, Biff” McFly Bush was his biggest target.
I saw Seinfeld a few years ago. The guy is hilarious. Funnier than his show even.
I loved and still love The Seinfeld Show. The “popular” comics today are pathetic and, quite frankly, not funny.
All these late night shows, unfunny " woke comedy" (which is neither woke nor comedic), and other entertainment is just anger trying to be disguised as comedy. Its unfunny and people are getting tired of it. Its why Rosanne is #1 and Tim Allen got his show renewed.
Why alienate half your money? This Summer at the Borgota tickets are $100 to $170. And he is doing 2shows, He gets paid well , no doubt, the fans will drop more than $200 each in the casino, restaurants.
Good for Jerry, his stock just increased imho.
But at least they can toss out cuss words that make this old sailor wonder if I was doing it wrong. LOL!
Both may be liberals, but there’s a world of difference.
Seinfeld - hilarious, focuses on the mundane, reasonably cute, married to someone his own age.
Letterman - repetitively not funny (top 10 forever, following unfunny everymen, and doing stupid experiments), goes into politics (except Clinton! He was above it all with Clinton), shacks up with far younger girls (like Trump - they have something in common!) and diddles anyone, and is UGLY.
He knows better than to eliminate half his potential earnings with a few stupid comments.
Shania Twain, Kathy Griffith, et al...................
Seinfeld is really a NYer, and while you might not think Trump is loved in NYC given his vote numbers there, those who identify with him there REALLY identify with him. They “get” Trump, and Seinfeld likely knows people who are in that group, and probably has a type of respect for him as a larger-than-life figure.
A lot of Jews are likely rethinking their stance on President Trump after today!
He's sixty-four. She's forty-six.
But the numbers are almost the same!
Probably NOT American Jews though. ;-)
One of my old Gunnys in the USMC, a very religious man and an ordained minister, had a sign on his desk, “PROFANITY IS THE SOUND OF AN IGNORANT MIND TRYING TO EXPRESS ITSELF.”
Needless to say, he did not put up with profanity anywhere in the shop............................
Was Letterman ever funny?
Once. But, only once.
Seinfeld is very clever in his observational humor. He talks about everyday things that most people can relate to, even silly things, things that they may have thought of themselves. The parakeet flying into the mirror is classic. It’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
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