Every other comedian who's gotten any pushback disappears for a month or two before popping back up with a handful of specials about how oppressed they are, but I haven't seen hide nor hair of Mike since The Incident.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      comedians in cars getting coffee

      The first time somebody mentioned that - I was 98% sure it was a joke. And then I googled. Even though it was years ago - I still can't believe it's not a joke.

      Seinfeld is the luckiest man alive. His entire shtick consists of stuff like... "She had man hands. Big. Like a man." and "What’s the deal with lampshades? I mean if it’s a lamp, why do you want shade?" Google says his net worth is $950 million.

      But I do really love yada-yada.

      • Dbumba [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        When you look at old media, you have to consider the timeline. Today it might seem contrived, obvious, and ordinary, but for its run, it was well ahead of the available media at the time. And an important building block for future comedy.

        Seinfeld the show changed the sitcom era-- most sitcoms then were based around flawed characters who learned their lesson by the end of the 23 minute episode. Seinfeld was full of flawed characters, who ultimately didn't learn their lesson, the humor was them being left in their own self-created mess to twist in the wind. Watching them have to deal with the consequences of their selfish or impulsive actions.

        At first, it was mostly observational humor of universal human character flaws-- petty, narsasitic, shallow, and self-involved, the humor of those observations sure, but the big payoff was the consequences of embracing those human flaws to a fault.

        And as the show gained popularity, it evolved to a form of meta humor and self awareness not often associated with TV sitcoms. Consider the plot arc where Jerry was pitching a show to NBC thats clearly a parody of the very same show Seinfeld. Self-referential was new back then.

        Shows like Its Always Sunny wouldn't exist without Seinfeld as a predecessor. Still, the fact Seinfeld is almost a billionaire is ridiculous.

        That's why I get so upset about Garfield and Jim Davis getting an ironic pass free of criticism in leftist memes. Jim Davis is basically a billionaire but no leftist rakes him through the coals because we were stockholm syndromed by a cartoon that was never funny in the first place. Death to Jim Davis, death to Garfield, death to Tyrants.

        Thanks for coming to my TED talk