Seinfeld and Gervais discuss difficulty of being comedians in snowflake society!
LONDON, England (PNN) - July 23, 2019 - British Comedian Ricky Gervais and his Fascist Police States of Amerika counterpart Jerry Seinfeld recently discussed the difficultly of being comedians in a society where swathes of people choose to be permanently offended at anything, and were immediately beseeched by people who were offended by what they said, proving their exact point.
The background of the piece was this debate about whether to leave in a comment made by Seinfeld, which was purposefully supposed to rile up the snowflakes.
“That’s one of the best and worst things you’ve ever said,” Gervais commented, knowing exactly what would unfold if it was left in.
The two then discussed the erosion of free speech, in the context of comedy.
“Now the big question, I think, the last couple of years- I mean, it’s always been around, but that last couple of years is - you know, the fight for freedom of speech,” Gervais said.
“I joke about really terrible things. I know they’re terrible. Of course.” he continued, adding “Whenever a new thing comes out that’s raw and sensitive, people say, ‘You don’t understand.’ I go, ‘No, I do understand.'”
“I know this is bad, I know the Holocaust was bad, I know AIDS is bad. It’s the joking about it that you don’t like ’cause it’s your thing. I was saying about freedom of speech. You should be able to joke about anything and they say things like, ‘Oh, you agree with Hitler, then.'”
Gervais then stated that comedians are in a “fight for the right to joke about anything”.
“Do you think it’s ebbing away in this culture?” Seinfeld asked, to which the British comedian replied, “This is the thing about freedom of speech - everyone agrees with it, until they hear something they don’t like.”
Whether you like Gervais’ comedy or not, you have to admire the way he simply cannot stand idly by as surface dwelling PC idiots continue to fundamentally damage society and attempt to replace cultural richness with shallow neo-puritan dross.
