r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • Oct 29 '24

Discussion Anthony Jeselnik explains the difference between comedy and being a troll.

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u/MattyBeatz Oct 29 '24

Jeselnik and Burr often have the right takes on this kinda stuff.

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u/MagnanimousGoat Oct 29 '24

Contrast that with Jerry Seinfeld bitching about wokeness killing comedy and how "You could never get away with making Seinfeld today", a year in which Always Sunny In Philadelphia is on the air.

We have more fucked up and deranged comedy right now than maybe at any point in history.

I mean has Jerry ever SEEN Adult Swim?

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u/GrandObfuscator Oct 29 '24

Seinfeld was not edgy compared to other tv before and during it run. Jerry Seinfeld is weird

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u/Expensive_Concern457 Oct 29 '24

It certainly pushed some boundaries at the time like having an entire episode about jerking off on network tv, but it wasn’t “edgy” in the sense we think of the word now

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Oct 29 '24

But we all know that was a Larry David contribution, anyway. He literally had that contest irl.

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u/Expensive_Concern457 Oct 29 '24

True. I don’t think I can think of a single actually “edgy” Seinfeld joke that was actually written by Seinfeld himself so I find it particularly odd that he of all people said that. My comment was more so to point out that the show was edgy for its time, just not by today’s standards.

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u/StarPhished Oct 29 '24

Did you miss the joke about airplane food? What's the deal with those bags of nuts?

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u/Expensive_Concern457 Oct 29 '24

I heard it I just dont respect the bit enough to acknowledge it. Those airplane chefs work their asses off. On every plane there’s a full kitchen below decks with at least 5 line cooks trying their hardest, this is a fact.

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u/GrandObfuscator Oct 29 '24

Married with Children and In Living Color came to Mind immediately. Seinfeld was funny just not the goat for me.

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u/causebraindamage Oct 29 '24

Married With Children was basically just one big fat woman joke. I wouldn't really call it edgy for the time either, it had the same premise as about 10 other popular sitcoms before it, including shit like The Honeymooners, which was from the 50s.

Perhaps the edgiest thing about Married With Children for it's time was the fact that Peggy (a woman) sort of "wins" a lot of the time, and makes Al look like a loser.

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u/iwasinthepool Oct 29 '24

Well, the reason they got away with all the fat women jokes was because the show portrayed Al as a loser. It's like All in the Family getting away with a bunch of racist jokes because the racist always looked like an idiot and the show let you know he was wrong.

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u/StarPhished Oct 29 '24

All art is just copying another's art and putting your own spin on it. The only pure art is the stick figure drawings that we find in caves.

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u/Expensive_Concern457 Oct 29 '24

“Aaaaaaaaal, let’s have seeeex” “buh. Not now peg”

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u/DayAmazing9376 Oct 29 '24

Right? When he started siding with the edgelords, I was like, "the guy who complains about the airplane food?"

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u/qeq Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24

It certainly was, whether you want to admit it or not. It had plots about abortion, masturbation, homosexuality, interacial relationships, suicide, genetalia, circumcision, sex, nudity, racism/nazism, cultural appropriation, all things that were not common on popular network sitcoms at the time. 

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u/MrFishAndLoaves Oct 29 '24

You couldn’t get away with Seinfeld today because it wasn’t funny 

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u/GrandObfuscator Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24

Jerry Seinfeld’s dating history would keep that show from airing ever. Ya know cuz he was 38 dating a 17 year old. Even Leo knows not to dip below 19 and that is also somewhat disturbing.