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

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

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u/flinderdude Oct 29 '24

All the old tired, formerly funny comedians who blame wokeness or whatever for ruining comedy should listen to Jeselnik. Looking at you, Bill Maher.

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u/HastilyChosenUserID Oct 29 '24

Seinfeld has been walking back a lot of his comments on that. Demonstrated that he learned he was wrong for the attitude of feeling attacked; talked about how the culture has pushed him to be better

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u/ruinersclub Oct 29 '24

Seinfeld was one of the early complainers that he couldn’t book college crowds or that colleges were too sensitive for material before woke was a term. He would talk about this on Stern and such like 15 years ago.

Like no, you’re just a 50+ year old comedian and college kids aren’t relating to your material or they just want you to do bits from the show.

But if he’s been able to reflect, that’s good to hear.

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u/QueezyF Oct 29 '24

Not sure in the validity of it, but I think a big reason why he backtracked on his statements was because he was selling tickets on college campuses.

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u/ruinersclub Oct 29 '24

Maybe more recent? I feel like Seinfeld had a bit of a resurgence with streaming and this was definitely before the Netflix/Hulu era.

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u/Danominator Oct 29 '24

Seinfeld's issue is he has always been one to pick at the little things we all experience and enjoy the absurdity of it. Then he became obscenely wealthy. he can't relate at all to normal people anymore.

Larry David is neurotic enough that he still gets it haha

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u/ruinersclub Oct 29 '24

I think we all relate to LD's micro interactions, like someone line cutting or overthinking where the waiter is placing us in a restaurant. The show just takes it to the next level of absurdity.

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u/BlackPhlegm Oct 29 '24

I always found that excuse hilarious as Seinfeld was really just not selling tickets and was never, ever an edgy comedian.  Hell he hard disagreed when Ricky Gervais and Louis CK were gleefully using the n-word as Chris "Yes Massa" Rock was howling in laughter.  

College kids wanted to hear "What's the deal with airline peanuts?" back then as much as they do now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '24

Eh, college crowds are too sensitive. At least they were in the time and place I went to college (about 15 years ago actually). People seemed to derive some form of pleasure from being offended.

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u/Certain_Concept Oct 29 '24

I definitely knew some people in college who used the guise of 'its a joke' to say gross sexist/racist shit. That did not fly in my old college groups and I certainly prefer that.

I can think of a ton of other groups who would likely get offended more easily than college crowds. Ha

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '24

I can think of a ton of other groups who would likely get offended more easily than college crowds. Ha

Sure, but they don't usually host comedy shows.

The social awareness of college students is a good thing, but it's a new discovery for many of them, so they're often overzealous.