Jerry Seinfeld decries current state of comedy: 'End of comedy'

Popular comedian Jerry Seinfeld says the fear and avoidance of offending others with jokes is moving comedy to the decline.

Expressing his thoughts in an interview with The New Yorker, the Seinfeld star said, “Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it."

He continued, "It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, “Cheers” is on. Oh, “MASH” is on. Oh, “Mary Tyler Moore” is on. “All in the Family” is on.’ You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’

"Well, guess what—where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

Giving the example of the rise in stand-up comedy, Jerry said the genre did not cuff the comics which is, he claims, common in the mainstream media.

He said the comedy fans are “now going to see stand-up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly."

Noting, "But when you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups—’Here’s our thought about this joke.’ Well, that’s the end of your comedy.”