Jerry Seinfeld’s stance on political correctness is well known. Just a few months ago, he In an interview with The New Yorker magazine PC and the “hard left” have ruined comedy TV: “It used to be that most people would come home at the end of the day and expect, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on.’ They’d think, ‘There’s something funny to watch on TV tonight.’ So guess what? Where’s it at?”
“This is the result of the far left and the rubbish ideas of political correctness, and people who care too much about offending others,” Seinfeld added to the magazine.
“My feeling about all of this is that political correctness, so long as it equates to tolerance, is apparently fine.”
Now, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who used Seinfeld’s last name and co-starred with Seinfeld on the sitcom that dominated TV for much of the 1990s) seems to disagree with Seinfeld’s anti-PC stance.
of The New York Times recently interviewed Louis-Dreyfus, and the paper quoted her as saying, “Your former co-star, Jerry Seinfeld, was in the news recently for speaking about political correctness in comedy. As a well-known comedian yourself, we’d like to know what you think about that.”
Dreyfuss did not name Seinfeld, but told the Times:
If you look back at both comedy and drama, say 30 years ago, through the lens of today, you might find bits and pieces that are outdated. And I don’t think being sensitive to sensitivities is a bad thing. That doesn’t mean you ignore all comedy. When you hear people start complaining about political correctness, I understand people rebel against it, but to me that’s a red flag, because it can mean something else. I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.
She did not clarify what that “something else” was, and the Times did not follow up with questions about what that “something else” was.
However, the interview continued 11 days later, with Louis-Dreyfus adding, “My feeling about all of this is that political correctness is obviously great as long as it equates to tolerance. And of course I reserve the right to boo anyone who says something that offends me, but at the same time I respect their right to free speech, right?”
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