• @Sarmyth
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    512 months ago

    His show was a cultural phenomenon. You’ve never heard of the least funny comedian. Let’s stop the weird Lemmy contrarianism. It makes us look more insanely out of touch than Jerry Seinfeld. (Which is so well known his name is in my auto-correct).

    • @blackbirdbiryani
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      192 months ago

      I absolutely loved Seinfeld (the show) and recently saw his stand up in person and it was absolutely terrible, it was actually pretty shocking. He’s just so incredibly unrelatable now.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 months ago

      Seinfeld turn to shit the moment Larry David left. Curb made it clear that he carried that show.

    • @Burn_The_Right
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      152 months ago

      He was never funny. Larry David, the guy who wrote the show, was the funny one.

      • @twistypencil
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        132 months ago

        FYI, it was written by both Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld

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          02 months ago

          Yeah and apparently he needed Larry David to be funny cause Jerry Seinfeld is the same guy who wrote Bee Movie and Unfrosted with other Seinfeld writers and we know how that went.

    • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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      142 months ago

      I wouldn’t say that’s contrarianism. I’ve heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even. Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.

      • @acosmichippo
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        2 months ago

        I wouldn’t say that’s contrarianism. I’ve heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even.

        all of that can be considered contrarianism too. It was easy to shit on observational humor because Seinfeld was the most popular comedy at the time.

        Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.

        the character Jerry was the straight man, so if you only watched the show Jerry (the actor/comedian) had an uphill battle to seem as funny as Kramer, George, Elaine, etc.

    • Ginny [they/she]
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      52 months ago

      I don’t think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there’ll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say “well they were never really that good anyway”. And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        It was always weird to me that the supposed comedian was the one playing it straight in the show, unless that was a meta joke, I guess.

          • @acosmichippo
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            12 months ago

            but that’s a result of how they wrote the character Jerry, not necessarily a reflection of Jerry the real person.

    • @MehBlah
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      -52 months ago

      It wasn’t funny. I never watched the show. I’m not alone in that either.