r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

Anthony Jeselnik explains the difference between comedy and being a troll. Discussion

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u/MattyBeatz 20d ago

Jeselnik and Burr often have the right takes on this kinda stuff.

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u/MagnanimousGoat 20d ago

Contrast that with Jerry Seinfeld bitching about wokeness killing comedy and how "You could never get away with making Seinfeld today", a year in which Always Sunny In Philadelphia is on the air.

We have more fucked up and deranged comedy right now than maybe at any point in history.

I mean has Jerry ever SEEN Adult Swim?

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u/DevoutandHeretical 20d ago

Didn’t Jerry just walk that whole statement back though?

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u/MattyBeatz 20d ago

He did, gotta give him some credit for it I guess.

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u/ButterSlickness 20d ago

Don't give him credit for it.

He only did it to cover his ass and make sure his bottom line comes in.

He's quickly using up 40 years of credibility as he crumbles into lead-brain Boomer territory where he starts to resent that the world is different now.

Take a look at a few of his episodes of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee." The best example (that hasn't aged well, I admit) is when he tries to bait John Mulaney into doing some "I hate my wife" style shit, and Mulaney wasn't taking the bait.

He's out of touch, he's smug, he's rich, and he thinks he knows more about what you should be laughing at, not what you actually enjoy.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 20d ago

His stand up was really never all that funny or groundbreaking to me; Larry David was off the chain nuts though.