“Oh your boss threatening to fire you is ‘like communism’”
“I listen to guys who are forced to work on weekends say that it’s like communism”
“Is your giant multinational company communist?”
[audience laughs]
“Does your CEO have a portrait of Stalin in his office? Do your kids read Karl Marx in school”
[laughter]
“I mean, really, are we [pause] not living in a capitalist country?”
“People keep pointing out child poverty here and say it’s like North Korea. Have you been to the DPRK? Can you really say that the stuff you see daily is going on in the competing social system you know nothing about?”
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Also he’s never been funny. I have seen posts from younger people that thought his Seinfeld bits in the show were parodies of bad 90s comedy.
I should add that a lot of Seinfeld is funny, but that’s due to people who aren’t Seinfeld.
Honestly the brains behind the most of the comedy in Seinfeld is Larry David, who either wrote about his own personal experiences getting into absurd situations he finds himself in, as an extremely wealthy and privileged guy that I’m 99% certain is an undiagnosed autistic - hence the constant social faux pas, or he’s exaggerating those experiences and writing about what he would do in hypothetical situations and the fallout from his inevitable gaffes.
If you’ve ever watched Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring David himself, it’s like a more mature version of Seinfeld except that he’s a combination of the Seinfeld and George characters.
I would say that Julia Louis-Dreyfus was probably ahead of her time as an actress on that show in a lot of ways. I grew up with Sienfield in some capacity or another, never really got it as a show until I watched it stoned and then it was kind of funny but I was stoned. The fact that none of the characters are meant to be likeable, I can see where it could be seen as being a parody show or maybe a meta-sitcom, so to speak, since it was “a show about nothing”.
W-what? The Seinfeld bits weren’t parodies?
It’s humour for the ultra privileged, where a dude pressing the lift button twice or having to make random small talk is the worst thing imaginable.
This is just a shot in the dark, but I’m getting Woody Allen “OMG it’s hard to be rich and creepy in NY” vibes from the show.
I admittedly haven’t watched it in a very long time.