• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    His show was a cultural phenomenon. You’ve never heard of the least funny comedian. Let’s stop the weird Lemmy contrarianism. It makes us look more insanely out of touch than Jerry Seinfeld. (Which is so well known his name is in my auto-correct).

    • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think the contrarianism is Lemmy specific. Whenever someone becomes problematic for whatever, there’ll always be people taking to twitter or whatever to say “well they were never really that good anyway”. And it is almost always just a cope, except in the specific case of Rob Schneider.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I wouldn’t say that’s contrarianism. I’ve heard criticism for Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy since at least 2004, calling out observation comics as a whole was trending at the time of his show even. Larry David made that show great, and some of the cast played their roles really well, Jerry Seinfeld wasn’t one of them for me and seemingly a lot of people.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Seinfeld turn to shit the moment Larry David left. Curb made it clear that he carried that show.

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      1 month ago

      I absolutely loved Seinfeld (the show) and recently saw his stand up in person and it was absolutely terrible, it was actually pretty shocking. He’s just so incredibly unrelatable now.