Students walk out during Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech at Duke

Seinfeld has publicly supported Israel following the 7 October Hamas attack, and traveled to a kibbutz in December to meet with hostages’ families

In case you're wondering what the argument is. You should still read the story though.

I find it funny that everyone assumed they walked out over Gaza, while I assumed it was because Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny.

What’s the deal with college kids these days?

The guy who said woke (aka not self centered sociopaths) have ruined comedy even though his partner on Seinfeld has had a wildly successful hit comedy series burning everyone for like eight years?

Wow. Those protestors are so violent. Call the riot squad!

Tbh I'm glad and support their reasoning but I would have walked out on Seinfeld even if he had no connection to Israel just because he's an entitled smug bag of shit

The bee movie guy?

Tomorrow he's going to complain about being "cancelled" and how he "can't say things anymore" while talking about the event where he was invited to speak in front of a college full of students.

You can say whatever you want, people don't have to listen.

Love his TV show but unfortunately he's a dick IRL.

https://consequence.net/2024/05/jerry-seinfeld-pro-palestine-students-duke/

I can't help but notice all the comedians who complain about society being took woke for comedy are has-beens. John Stewart's back to crushing it at the Daily Show, is he complaining? No, it's only the guys who've run out of material and have nothing left to do but shake their canes at gen Z kids.

I challenge anyone to go to the "good old days" and find me a comedian who was actually funny and not just being an edgelord. You know who the most popular comedian was in the 80s? Andrew Dice Clay. That's right. That's was peak comedy, dirty nursery rhymes. Sure, I get that some people are nostalgic. But let's be serious for a minute - do we really wanna go back to that kind of comedic void?

Society hasn't gotten too woke, rather comedic standards have evolved to the point where merely being offensive in itself no longer counts as comedy.

I honestly never understood the attraction to Seinfeld.

There were a few good jokes in there but the whole show was about them being assholes and proud of it.

They're selfish, judgemental and entitled. They're constantly mocking and bullying other people and each other. The final episode even lays it out explicitly.

Shows like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "Married... With Children" or "Breaking Bad" have various unsavory characters but we're invited to reject these flaws or at least identify with them as flaws.

Seinfeld is shameless about being an asshole and pretends the rest of us are just too dumb to understand his genius.

Weird choice of quotes and headlines:

From the OP article:

"He has been “uncharacteristically vocal” about his support during press calls for his new film, Unfrosted, The New York Times reported."

From the NYT link in the quote:

"As Mr. Seinfeld, who has recently been vocal about his support for Israel, received an honorary degree, dozens of students walked out and chanted, “Free, free Palestine,” while the comedian looked on and smiled tensely"

But when you go to the link to the NY Times article that references Mr. Seinfeld as being recently vocal about his support of Israel, one of the concluding comments in the article is:

Surely, Mr. Seinfeld sees it differently. His public comments have largely avoided geopolitical specifics, dwelling little on the choices of the Netanyahu government or prospective conditions for a cease-fire.

And he can still sound hesitant even in recent discussions about the Jewishness of “Seinfeld” — which an NBC executive once described as “too New York, too Jewish.”

Nothing about this makes me think Seinfield is a a strong supported of the war. Support for Israel after the attack can be a lot of things and does not mean pro Netanyahu war machine.

Confusiong riches and fame for brains. Classic mistake

CoMeDy Is DeAd.

No. We’re just through with your bigotry disguised as humor.

why was he even invited?

What did he say?

Not as many as Harvard, but it's something.

I read that one of the Charities he donates to is actively engaging in the suffering of the Palestenians.

Who are all these people Jerry?

I'm confused. By all accounts Jerry and the entire cast came together to point out their hate for Trump and Republicans. But because he doesn't agree with one issue he's been labeled as a right winger? I'm so far left that young leftists think I'm too extreme, to the point where they call be right wing for disagreeing with every tiny thing they say. The young left have become the keepers of "right/wrong think"

Edit: a lot of young people who call themselves left, are doing everything possible to push people away from the left, instead of making them allies.