Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase “Free Palestine” are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.
Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university’s student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”
“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.
Jerry Seinfeld’s entire public profile can be attributed to Larry David. If it weren’t for him, he’d just be another mediocre Leno-esque standup. Nobody would remember him because he sucks.
i don’t know if anyone worked as hard as Jerry Seinfeld to ruin his own reputation insistently for so long.
I mean, he’s doing a great job of it, but there are a lot of other sensational examples
Musk, Russel Brand, Kanye, Gervais, Rogan, Rowling, Dilbert guy…
You could argue none of them were as big a self inflicted fall I guess, but they were all, at times, thought of in pretty high esteem by a lot of of people, and then, well, you know.
I’m familiar with the rest of them, what did Gervais do?
Been a while since I’ve heard about him tbf, but IIRC he jumped on the whole “can’t do comedy anymore because they’ll cancel you” shtick when getting criticised for transphobic jokes/remarks.
I guess his is less offensive and more lazy. Just started rambling like an old man about cancel culture and comedy dying and hisow comedians “speak secret truths” instead of realising that the material wasn’t funny and was offensive and working on improving that.
He’s definitely the weakest example from the list, I’d put him in the same vein as Chapelle actually.
exposes that Stephen Merchant was the funny guy all along.
more directly, he leans into the “legalize comedy” stuff basically, pretends that he’s too edgy and people constantly want to cancel him. when in reality he’s just doing transphobic hack comedy. he’s just generally super cringe.
my favorite thing about him is James Acaster mocking the shit out of him on one of his shows.
He laughs at his own jokes.
I love that Seinfeld says this stuff because I’ve always felt he was unfunny, smug, obnoxious, and basically I’ve just always hated him for no reason. Now he just keeps supplying reasons, and finally I can say I hate this fucker without being judged too hard for it
A guy who dated a teenager he picked up at a park in his 30s has bad opinions and is a terrible person? Say it ain’t so!
That is NOT gold Jerry, NOT gold.
Gee, I didn’t know not wanting genocide makes you a fucking genocidal hate filled kkk loser. Damn that sure is weird…
Ugh.
PDFs love Israel. How old is your GF Jerry?
I like jews. Free palestine.
Nail on the head. It’s not that nuanced, Jerry!
Fuck that POS.
I’m Native American free Palestine, fuck Jerry.
So he really was Murphy all along.
Good grief, Jerry, you stupid donkey.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
From the river to the sea, fuck Jerry and Palestine will be free.
Free Palestine and fuck Jerry Springer and his stupid bass line
What did the former mayor of Cincinnati have to do with this other 90s TV star
This reminds me of Norm McDonald’s bit, “People say the worst thing about the whole Bill Cosby thing is the hypocrisy. I disagree, I thought it was the raping that was the worst” apologies for butchering it, but I think it’s very relevant, considering it was on an episode of comedians in cars with Jerry
“Ya know, the more I read about that Hitler fella, the less I care for him.”
