Posted on 05/14/2018 5:54:13 AM PDT by rktman
Jerry Seinfeld isn’t interested in Donald Trump jokes. The comedian behind the legendary Seinfeld sitcom sat down with David Letterman for an upcoming episode of the Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Perhaps hopefully, Letterman wondered, “Do you do Trump stuff when you go out?”
Seinfeld shut down this topic by humorously changing the subject: “No, it doesn’t interest me. I do a lot of raisin stuff.” He joked:
I just think that it’s interesting that after 80 years, Sun-Maid finally went, 'Hey, why don’t we put some chocolate on it?' Imagine not thinking of that for 80 years. So that really gets me excited, that people pay me to talk about those kinds of things.
Letterman is an ardent liberal. Earlier in the clip, he praised Michelle Wolf’s angry White House Correspondents Dinner performance: “I really had great admiration for the fact that she was able to just walk into that room and decimate the place.”
Seinfeld responded that he didn’t know Wolf and offered only vague, general compliments to her.
The TV star has a history of not putting up with political correctness. In 2015, Seinfeld said of colleges: “I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me don’t go near colleges — they’re so PC.”
According to USA Today, he derided: “[The younger generation] just want to use these words. ‘That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice.’ They don’t even know what they’re talking about.”
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Frankly I never understood Letterman. He just was not that funny. I used to watch Late Night and he was definitely very hit or miss, mostly miss on his monologue and everything else.
I never could figure out why Johnny Carson thought so highly of him and also why Carson thought Letterman should have been his replacement. Carson never would have let his political leanings interrupt or ruin his act and standing with his fans. By the way Johnny was pretty much a New Deal Democrat.
Letterman is a bitter old man now and no longer relevant anywhere.
Jerry Seinfield knows what is funny and how a comic should work and his stuff is funny. One of the reasons Seinfield is still a top show in syndication even after being off the air for for over 20 years. Seinfield reruns still command about $1 Million and episode in syndication making it probably the most successful sitcom ever and make Jerry rich beyond his dreams.
Will Jerry take Trump out for a car ride and some coffee like he did Barry?
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
And Frank Sinatra died.
Fascinating factoid: Sinatra’s trip to a hospital that day was made easy by the fact traffic was practically clear - due to the huge stay-home incentive for Seinfeld’s last episode.
Which led to one of the classic moments on Howard Stern's show, when he had Janis Ian do a version of "At 17"
Seinfeld's Girl is 17
Letterman has gone full Randy Quaid in appearance.
jerry is 64 and his wife is 46.
It’s funnier to ask why we can’t put toothpaste back into the tube rather than to ridicule the president every night.
Not for the Master of his Domain.
Letterman became bitter when he didn’t get the Late Show gig and it made him unfunny. I used to like the old Letterman show but quit watching after about 3 months when he moved to CBS.
He was bitter and unfunny and it showed.
Shania Twain is Canadian, so it doesn’t count.
She just needs to shut up and get back into recording.
She should have never jumped into a ‘foreign’ political situation.
She learned a hard lesson................
I saw Jessica Sklar on HSN and she seemed like a lightweight to me. I still like Jerry Seinfeld. I think he is hysterical.
When he got caught with the intern that was uglier than his wife.
Oh yeah, that’s right...I got them mixed up. I forgot he broke up with Shoshanna and then stole another man’s wife!
Seinfeld must have had a bigger bank balance.
You win.
Nothing beats that one.
You sure sat on it long enough.
you can only make so many jokes about his toupee, his golf and his always solemn face.
Bush could be the butt of many, many jokes and Clinton too. Obama you could mock his pomposity and his teleprompter and his stop-stare speech tactic, but again, not much to make fun of compared to the two presidents before him.
Seinfeld looks for jokes that are fresh, funny and not "for this moment only". The Seinfeld show is still funny 25 years later
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