Jerry Seinfeld's no big deal comment some want to turn into a controversy

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.

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Jerry Seinfeld making a lot of buzz
with this clip from the New Yorker Radio

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Hour. Let's listen, nothing really
affects comedy. People always need it.

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They need it so badly, and
they don't get it. It used to

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be you would go home at the
end of the day. Most people would

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go, oh, Cheers is on, Oh Mash is on, Oh,

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Mary Tyler Moore is on. All
the Family's on. You just expected there'll

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be some funny stuff we can watch
on TV tonight. Well guess what where

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is it? This is the result
of the extreme left and PC crap and

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people worrying so much about offending other
people. When you write a script and

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it goes into four or five different
hands committees groups. Here's our thought about

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this joke. Well, that's the
end of your comedy. They move the

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gates, like in the schime Yea
culture. The gates are moving. Your

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job is to be agile and clever
enough that wherever they put the gates,

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I'm gonna make the gate. I
agree with Jerry there. The Independent does

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not agree with Jerry nor me.
Under the headline, Jerry Seinfeld is wrong

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about the extreme left ruining comedy.
Adam White writes, and this is a

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week opener because it's so hack I
read it for batim. What's the deal

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with wokeness? Jerry Seinfeld probably whispers
to himself while reclining in his bathtub of

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money. Over the course of his
forty plus years in show business, the

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billionaire, observational comedian and actor has
embodied a number of different guys. Is

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the stand up the sitcom star,
the maker of b movie, and now

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he's embraced another persona the kind of
truthfully must be resisted by all the latent

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life scold. Somebody's not a fan
of Jerry, Apparently. If you feel

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like you've heard Seinfeld say this already, you're probably just confusing him with one

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of the other Yester Year comics who've
mounted impassion condemnations of cancel culture. John

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Clees, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy co
Ricky Tervay's and French and Saunders have all

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insisted they can't say anything more,
usually from the stages of their Netflix specials

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their GP News chat shows. Yes, it's the super unsuccessful Jerry Seinfeld,

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Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, and
Ricky Tervais. Nobody likes them. Seinfeld's

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claims are particularly annoying, though.
If it feels like there's been a dearth

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of new comedy on TV lately,
it's probably to do with our modern day

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viewing habits, which favor comforting nostalgia
over new ideas. I'm kind of already

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sic of Jerry Seinfeld stories. If
you are too, It's going to be

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a long week. The pops Hearts
movie Unfrosted opens on Friday. It co

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stars bourbon entrepreneur Jim Gaffigan. Amy
Schumer is in this as well. We

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haven't seen Amy do any press yet. Let me take one more look,

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I think I look this morning.
Nothing from Amy yet, Jim, I've

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seen a little. I pushed that
to Friday, but it's gonna be a

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long week. From that New Yorker
interview, Jerry says Chris Rock is the

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smartest person maybe I've ever met.
I was with Chris a couple weeks ago.

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He was talking about a young comic
who's asking the comedian about what he

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did that day, and the guy
said, nothing, but I'm going to

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do a set tonight and Chris explain
to him, you make money during the

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day, you collected at night.
During the day is where the money is

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made. Jerry says, Comedians don't
generally think they have to do more than

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perform on stage every night. They
don't think there's more to it than that.

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But there's quite a bit more to
it. If you have a really

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solid work ethic and have some sense
of writing, you can move into different

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fields more easily. They asked Jerry
what working means for him. He said,

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if anyone cares, here's what I
did. I've been reading a lot

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of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations book, which
I'm sure you probably read when you were

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fourteen. And the funny thing about
that book is he talks a lot about

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the fallacy of even thinking of leaving
a legacy, thinking your life is important,

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thinking anything's important, the ego and
fallacy of at the vanity of it.

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And his book, of course,
disproves it all because he wrote this

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thing for himself and it lived on
centuries beyond his life, affecting other people.

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So he defeats his own argument in
the quality of the book. I've

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adopted the Marcus Aurelius philosophy, which
is that everything I've done means nothing.

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I don't think for a second that'll
ever mean anything to anyone ten days after

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I'm dead. As for the Pop
Tarts movie, how did it come together?

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Jerry said on Zoom we have a
meeting and the four of us,

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four comedy writers who love each other's
sense of humor. I do a twenty

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minute warm up of just anything of
nonsense. What'd you do last night?

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What j eat? What you watch? You can start laughing and having fun.

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That's how comedy is done. You
can't have anybody in the room who

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doesn't have the scene Breen disaffection.
There's a lot of really vile profinity complaining

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about absolutely everything and anything, and
then you go, okay, where were

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we working on that scene yesterday?
What was that scene? Where were gonna

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go from here? And then you
start to write. But you're in this

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mood now, and that's how you
write comedy. If somebody else walks in

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the room, you have to stop
and go what do you want? Yeah?

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I know, dinner's fine, six
fine? Okay? Jerry? Did

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you love pop Tarts growing up?
Ah? Yeah? How about now?

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Still? Yeah? I love them? I needed for breakfast they did after

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a bad show on Wednesday night?
Do you fall up there, Jerry?

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When have you ever had a bad
show? A lot of times? I

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mean to me, bad shows.
I'm gonna do four new pieces tonight,

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three of them tank. It's a
frustrating night. The show's still good.

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But I was trying to do You're
always trying to forge ahead. Did Kelloggs

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know they were going to do this? No? No, We only called

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them three weeks ago to tell them. By the way, we found a

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lawyer in the valley. We asked
you, I write us a letter saying

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this is okay to do that we
can show to Netflix follow up, so

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there's no fee paid to kellogg or
no pervision given or taken. Jerry said,

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no, you think Kelloggs would make
a movie where people lose their lives

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trying to invent to pastry. Meanwhile, Jerry was on in Depth with Graham

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Benzinger and Fox recap this. Jerry
said he wrestles with a darkening mood.

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Jerry says, sometimes I just don't
feel good, and the best way to

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get out of it for me is
work. Work is the best antidote.

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That's why I work so much.
Because for some reason, you feel like

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you're not wasting time. I realized
this tendency to get depressed. I'd never

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want to have that if I would
lose the creative gift that came with it.

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It's part of an overactive brain.
I wouldn't call it real depression.

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I don't know the word for it. The mood darkens. I get a

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darkening mood, and I want to
get out of it more. Marcus Aurelius.

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Marcus Aurelius says, your only focus
should be on getting better what you're

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doing. Focus on what you're doing, get better what you're doing. Everything

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else is a complete waste of time. So I have this movie coming out.

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I'm so excited to read the worst
reviews unfrosted out Friday. I put

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out another sub stack yesterday, this
one titled one star reviews. The Substack

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They might ask you to pay for
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click the free subscription. I'm not
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gotten exttion a million dollars. Then
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or just you know, buy me
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and I'll stop doing this soon.
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until the commercial leaden version is out
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I flip open the laptop and I
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Monday, it was up at seven
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you're up between like three and eight
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I wish I did. I'm trying
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can't. After like eight am,
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episode commercial free, and the archives
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that he was getting baptized this Sunday. I'm taking the plunge. I'm getting

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baptized. Like it says in Galatians, you can live as an enlightened and

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awakened person. Chelsea Handler wants to
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viewership. She's going to go topless
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actually does this. She was on
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how to keep the Caitlin Clark effect
going? You know, Chelsea Handler used

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to date Joe Coy. That's it. That's just my complete thought. I

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don't know what you thought was gonna
happen there. She used to date Joekoi

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from the Sydney Comedy Festival. Ben
Hunter's show is I will refund your ticket

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in ten years, I promise.
I'm going to have to interrupt a few

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times here, right, So the
first joke here, he's holding up a

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drawing of coins. He has like
impressions. I've been working on some impressions.

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Is okay if I show you some
of them. This is an impression

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of some coins. This is an
impression of my credit card. Okay,

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another drawing. This is an impression
of my nipple. This is an impression

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of my other nipple. That time
the second nipple is larger and same idea

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for the rest of the bid.
Here. This is an impression of my

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mom. It's nice. This is
an impression of my dad. Come to

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the tip with me. Thanks guys. This is an impression of the other

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side of the coins from before.
I just flipped the mofa kind of fun,

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pretty visual. Sydney's not like Melbourne. There are a lot fewer clips

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for me to share. I've really
had a dive on all these Steen rascopolos.

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His show is called Friendly Stranger.
I like the description friendly Stranger.

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I thought Stein brought the show to
Sydney last year. Yeah, but it

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was sold out. You couldn't get
a ticket. And so he's back again

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with an updated and even better version. A stranger is a new friend you

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haven't met yet. It could be
a dog on the street, a curist,

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baby, or a performer who warmly
invites you on stage. So this

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is another visual clip. Again,
this is what's available, but this is

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really funny. I've shared it in
the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

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The gimmick here is he brings people
up and has them stand in picture

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frames, so the people from the
audience are the artwork and they have to

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act out the narration that you're about
to hear. Very funny but as visual.

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In the clip, you're about to
hear the narration is about a father

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and a son, but it's actually
a father and a daughter, and Steen

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made sure that they're on the wrong
side to make the narration funnier. Hello,

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and welcome to the Museum of Pretense
Art. The first artwork you see

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is a painting by Australian artist Gareth
Tinney entitled Fisherman and his Son. Oh.

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You see an old fisherman casting his
rod with his right hand whilst lovingly

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swinging his left arm around his son's
neck. The sun is holding fish and

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smiling. It's a very, very
exaggerated smile. Some art experts believe if

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you look at the painting from left
to right, oh, it can actually

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be interpreted as a hostage situation.
Wow. Again. It's in the Facebook

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group Daily Comedy News podcast group.
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