Seinfeld is Right

Jerry Seinfeld is taking a little heat because he took a shot at speaking up for comedy.

He explained that being a comic nowadays is more difficult because you have to craft an act worrying about who might be offended by what is said.

Now, I’m not being a contrarian here. I think that people can be hurt by stereotypical jokes, but man, they’re comics.

The point of the exercise is to allow people to laugh at themselves, and we have collectively lost our ability to simply laugh.

Not everything said, by a comic, during a comedy show, is meant to offend people.

I think about Eddie Murphy’s great comedy album. He went out of his way to imitate black men and white men. He made fun of gays. He used the f-word every other word.

He won awards for that album.

George Carlin?

He attacked every ethnicity, all religions and himself. He was a straight-up comic genius, and I was never once offended.

When did it become fair game to attack comics for their act?

Chris Rock told a joke about the Boston Marathon and you’d have thought he set off the explosives.

Then he had the gall to tell a bald joke and got slapped.

I’m so glad that he never apologized.

Yeah, comics can tell smart jokes that are vanilla enough to not bother anyone, but my argument is that they shouldn’t have to.

Let’s get back to laughing instead of trying to make the world a perfect place for everyone.

They’re jokes!

Laughing is fun!!

Somewhere Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor are spinning in their graves.