Gutfeld! Monologues - Seinfeld Said Comedy Was Under Attack, Now He's Taking It Back

Episode Date: October 19, 2024

As seen on Gutfeld!, former GOP Congressman Lee Zeldin, Comedian Jeff Dye, Comedian Joe Devito, and FOX News Contributor Kat Timpf discuss why comedian Jerry Seinfeld is now walking back his comments attacking political correctness. Plus, Greg delivers a monologue highlighting how media bias has gotten so far past the point of absurdity it could be viewed as comedy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and it's not because Hunter Biden had a hot weekend. Originally, the FBI said violent crime fell in 2022 by 2.1%. But as John Lott at real clear investigations found out, the FBI has now revised those numbers. Apparently, the stats were more fudged than Brian Stelter's fingertips. He's fat. Instead of violent crime going down by 2%, it actually went up by 4.5%.

That's a bigger swing than the one Joy Behar installed over her bed. How else is she going to get up? Now this 4.5% increases on top of the already rising crime. But in an effort to gaslight us into thinking the tide was turning, they lied. There was more violent crime on top of the mayhem we already endured. The libs not only flunk math, but ethics as well. Up is down, down is up. If Libs ever started designing elevators, we're f***.

Now, we got a lot of Dems watching, and I want to make sure that they get it. Because for months, they've told us violent crime has gone down since Biden was elected. Maybe they were confusing crime with his body temperature. But they told us that, like the railing around Joe's toilet, his policies were making things safer. ABC's David Muir actually stopped Trump during last month's debate to correct him on the crime stats. Crime here is up and through the roof, despite their fraudulent statements that they made. President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down in this country. But, excuse me, the FBI defrauding statements.

They didn't include the worst cities. They didn't include the cities with the worst crime. It was a fraud, just like their number of 818,000. jobs that they said they created, turned out to be a fraud. Yeah, much. All right, you can applaud. Why not? Clapping is healthy.

So why did Muir do that? Hmm. Perhaps it was Muir's first threesome, and feeling left out, he was compelled to insert himself into the action. Such a weird joke. But he took it on himself to debate the Republican, which happens in every debate. And it would have been fine if maybe he was right, but he wasn't. But all the Democrats telling us violent crime is down, they were wrong.

It's a weird phenomenon. Democrats claim crime is down, but every time there's a shooting in America, they call for more gun control. The Dems could. They'd want you to believe Trend de Arwaigua is a fancy brand of bottled water. It's a game. Fact is, Democrats have always lived in a fantasy world when it comes to crime. When it comes to fooling themselves or as honest as Doug Emoff, telling a nanny, I'll only put it in a little.

Just look at this CNN panel the other day, openly baffled that there's such a thing as the Ferguson effect. After the Ferguson riot and after the Floyd riot, policemen in fear of their jobs many times and political coverage pulled back from their jobs resulting in an increased level of homicide. You can get that for the country. Hold on. You can look at the Washington Post numbers on this. because you're literally making a connection out of your own conjecture.

No, it's a real thing. Look up the Ferguson effect. Look up the Floyd effect. It is a real term. It's a real term. I didn't make this up. You cannot just invent a connection between two things. Just because you want that connection to be there.

It's a little like a name. It's a real thing. It doesn't mean it's right. Oh, yeah, he invented that. No, the Ferguson effect is a real thing. The George Floyd effect is a real thing. CNN has covered this real thing. real thing before, which is proof that even their employees don't watch their crap.

Hell, get this. The Ferguson effect denier, Abby Phillip, even wrote about it, when she was at the Washington Post yet, now she pretends she's never heard of it. Why? The fact is, when you demonize police and punish them for doing their jobs, violent crime goes up faster than my blood pressure does when I have to share an elevator with judge jeanine so crime went up not down but dem's always get two different things confused it's the same problem they have with bathrooms which one gets potpourri and which one gets penises and as always

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Don't go Nadler. But they'll shut you down and they shout you down. They need to strenuously reject reality because their worldview can't survive contact with the truth. They're like Kamala last night or Kamala every night. And they need to be so smug about it because otherwise the shame would crush them. Look, vote for whoever you want. But if it's based on a bunch of lies, it's not our fault for reminding you. In fact, you might say it's our job.

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Gee, he said comedy was under attack, but now he takes it all back. But it's not gold, Jerry Gold, when your speech gets controlled. Welcome to Who Got to Him Tonight, Jerry Seinfeld changes his anti-woke tune. For years, he railed against the chilling effect of political correctness on comedy, laying the blame squarely on the feet of the extreme left. Not anymore. Here's how he explained it on a recent podcast. Here's two things I regret saying, and I have to take back.

Okay. I said, I don't play colleges because the kids are too PC and you can't do comedy for them. Right. Not true. First of all, I never said it, but if you think I said it, it's not true. I play colleges all the time. The other thing, I did an interview with the New Yorker. And I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy.

I did say that. Yeah. It's not true. It's not true. No? No. So I don't think the, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. Right.

I'm taking that back now officially. Hmm. I think he was blinking, help. So what made Jerry go from Master of his own domain to Afraid to Complain? It can't be financial pressures since he's worth roughly $200 zillion. And since when is it not his business to criticize where the culture's at? This is a guy who made a billion dollars complaining about how his date ate peas. But if I had to guess, I'd say he got tired of getting nagged by his liberal friends.

So this time, the only shrinkage was off his balls. Jeff, who got to him? The segment's called Who Got to Him? And this has Newman written all over it. It has to be Newman. I will say this, though. I'm a big fan of Tom Papa, which was what that podcast was on.

I'm a huge fan of Jerry Seinfeld, actually. What I think, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I think he was trying to be reasonable and just say, like, hey, I've got a lot of left friends. I have a lot of liberal friends. I work with a lot of liberal comedians. I shouldn't have framed it that way against the left. But he did keep repeating, it's not the extreme left.

Yes. You should be against the extreme left. Yeah. They're the extreme left, you know? I'm a conservative Republican, but I'm against the extreme right. Yeah. Like, I'm very against the extreme right. They go too far.

They're, I don't know, extreme. Yeah, that's, yeah. Right? So he's, I don't know why he wants to push himself away from the extreme left. He also retook something back later. the podcast where he talks against toxic masculinity, and he's like, no, but we do need masculinity. We just don't need it to be toxic. And that was a really reasonable way to frame it. I think the left is fine. The extreme left is the problem. And I think that's what

he may be meant. I hope he sees this and goes, ah, this young man gets me. That's what I thought. Joe, who got to him? I don't know. It makes you wonder, like, how much money do you need to have for it to be FU money and not worry about it. I mean, he can set fire to a Porsche every weekend just for the hell of it if he wants to. He's done there. He has just to laugh. It's very, very strange.

And, you know, do I think comedy should have no one telling you what to do and all that? I say absolutely. But at the same time, if you show me enough money, I will say whatever you want. I am your little whore for the right. You can leave the money on the nightstand if you want. I have no principles when it comes to that.

But I think to say that the left has lost comedy, I mean, look what's happening here and compare it to how painfully unfunny a lot of these other shows are. And I think part of the problem is they're so obsessed with Trump that they haven't realized that you cannot exaggerate him because he's already done it. Yes. You can't exaggerate him. He's already a thousand percent Trump. Think about it. When he got shot, people said, oh, is he going to show up with a bandied on his ear? He walked in with 1,800 mattress on his shoulder. Yeah. So they don't get it.

So these other conversations that, to me, it's funny is funny. And if you don't like it, don't go. I miss when he was crabby, cranky, Jerry, telling people, funny is what mattered. Because funny is what matters to comedy. Kat, who got to him? I don't know if anybody, maybe he's like reading the comments. Yeah, that could be it. Daughter.

Don't read the comments. Those are always the worst takes. But sometime, I mean, again, I thought at first when I saw this, what he was going to say is that there's people on both sides who are offended by jokes, which there are. Of course. There definitely are. A lot of the people who will call other people woke will get really upset at me if I say shit or f***. Yes. Like, really, like, you're going to be somebody's mother and, like, watch me still do it.

You know? The man who ran out of my show in Milwaukee screaming that I was morally reprehensible was a conservative. But what he's talking about here, you can't, you have. to acknowledge that what he was talking about these extreme, the people who are saying you can't, entire subjects are off limits, you can't make jokes about anything and these

the offended person's always right. Yes, that does ruin comedy. Because someone's always going to be offended by any joke. Everybody's got different sensibilities about different things. You can say anything and find someone who'll be offended by it. So if you're I think the view that people

discuss and talk about this is the offended person's always right, that does destroy comedy. Because if there is nobody could ever make a joke again exactly exactly who got to him lee so there's a possibility small chance that it's mr. bookman found that jerry still owed for an overdue library book but more likely the soup nazi yes you know he loves the mulgatoni soup jerry and his friends and even if you want the free bread or you're george castanza or you're elaine and you like your alpichino sent of a woman accents, at the end of the day, you realize that in order to get your malagetoni soup, you better not piss off the soup nazi. So that's where I'm putting my money.

You know, you brought up Elaine. That's where it came from, I bet. Yeah, real life, Elaine. Yeah, good chance. Yeah, yeah, because I'm telling you, Elaine. It's like guys realize they can't say what they want, what they really feel or else they'll get on by the women around them. So I blame all the women. All the women. Lee Zeldin, Jeff Dye, Keptip, Joe DeVito, studio audience. Watches and that is next time.

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