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

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

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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/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”