Nobody likes a scold! I don't know where all these self-serious puritanical kids get it. I know that teenagers can be filled with righteous indignation but it seems to be a culture-wide phenomenon. Lower your shields, learn to laugh at yourself, open your mind to other people's incorrect opinions, with very, very few exceptions, it's not going to kill you. Life becomes a lot more fun when you allow yourself to relax a bit.
I think there are plenty of comedians out there and good comedy and Seinfeld is just a cranky old guy complaining about today’s youth.
Some of it is on streaming platforms like Netflix, some of it on podcasts, some of it on places like TikTok and YouTube.
In a crowded streaming marketplace where there’s near endless options of what to watch, I can see why marketing departments might struggle with comedies. It’s probably much easier to market action and dramas than comedies.
You bring up a good point, in that there seems to be a changing of the guards here between what generations find funny. Longer stand up acts and shows are being replaced by 2 minute snippets on TikTok, and if it gets popular, a stand up special on Netflix. And its always been a thing that what older audiences and younger audiences find funny don't always match.
Is Seinfeld cranky? yeah a bit. But he's not wrong when he implies that there are just too many people treating Comedy routines the same way they would serious debate and news programs. People really need to lighten up--not everything has to be a hypercritical world changing issue. I think life would be much more tolerable for everyone if we all had a freedom to laugh without someone turning it into a cause of some kind.
Part of the problem is polarization. People practically live in two different worlds now, and that limits the ability of media to have universal appeal.
You're not wrong. And if you make a show catering to one side or the other, you get labeled as a "liberal show" or a "conservative show." and the network gets broadbrushed for it.
They're still that way. They're stupidity though gets drowned out right now by the stupidity on the left. I used those examples specifically because they were at the time of when Seinfeld's show started. You can still find book burning, up in arms, christian fundamentalist quacks complaining about South Park or whatnot. In the end, both the far left and the far right exist for only one purpose-- to complain about everything. That they have in common.
Nobody likes a scold! I don't know where all these self-serious puritanical kids get it. I know that teenagers can be filled with righteous indignation but it seems to be a culture-wide phenomenon. Lower your shields, learn to laugh at yourself, open your mind to other people's incorrect opinions, with very, very few exceptions, it's not going to kill you. Life becomes a lot more fun when you allow yourself to relax a bit.
AMEN!
I think there are plenty of comedians out there and good comedy and Seinfeld is just a cranky old guy complaining about today’s youth.
Some of it is on streaming platforms like Netflix, some of it on podcasts, some of it on places like TikTok and YouTube.
In a crowded streaming marketplace where there’s near endless options of what to watch, I can see why marketing departments might struggle with comedies. It’s probably much easier to market action and dramas than comedies.
You bring up a good point, in that there seems to be a changing of the guards here between what generations find funny. Longer stand up acts and shows are being replaced by 2 minute snippets on TikTok, and if it gets popular, a stand up special on Netflix. And its always been a thing that what older audiences and younger audiences find funny don't always match.
Is Seinfeld cranky? yeah a bit. But he's not wrong when he implies that there are just too many people treating Comedy routines the same way they would serious debate and news programs. People really need to lighten up--not everything has to be a hypercritical world changing issue. I think life would be much more tolerable for everyone if we all had a freedom to laugh without someone turning it into a cause of some kind.
Part of the problem is polarization. People practically live in two different worlds now, and that limits the ability of media to have universal appeal.
You're not wrong. And if you make a show catering to one side or the other, you get labeled as a "liberal show" or a "conservative show." and the network gets broadbrushed for it.
Well stated, although I find it interesting the examples of the “extreme right” you cited were Bush 41 and Dan Quayle.
They're still that way. They're stupidity though gets drowned out right now by the stupidity on the left. I used those examples specifically because they were at the time of when Seinfeld's show started. You can still find book burning, up in arms, christian fundamentalist quacks complaining about South Park or whatnot. In the end, both the far left and the far right exist for only one purpose-- to complain about everything. That they have in common.