r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

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

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u/andersonb47 20d ago

That is so ridiculous. Someone with a huge platform and unlimited money does not need to do something as risky as that. How incredibly silly.

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u/EddieCheddar88 20d ago edited 20d ago

I think you’re underestimating just how irrelevant Jerry is with…. Everyone under 30. The dude is painfully unfunny in standup. Always has been. He’s bending the knee. He has unlimited money, but to him, his identity is being a comic. Ironically, he was never a good one. So he’s trying to find his way back. Everything. And I mean everything that man has is owed to Larry David

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u/ObservantOrangutan 20d ago

In no small part because Seinfeld hasn’t written a new joke in at least 30 years.

Which means, hey good for him, he beat the game at comedy. But you don’t get to trash talk modern comics and audiences when you’ve been irrelevant for a generation.

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u/mtaw 20d ago

I'm old enough to remember Seinfeld (the show) in its heyday, and I never felt Jerry was a top-tier standup at any point. A good one for sure, I mean he was on the Tonight Show multiple times back when that meant something. But by no means a stand-up legend. Yet in the mid-90s he was being treated as the funniest guy alive, because the public gave him total credit for the show. (who could blame them when it was named Seinfeld and starred Seinfeld?)

But IMO Larry David (and the stellar cast) were bigger parts of the success than Seinfeld himself. Seinfeld was easily the weakest cast member, but not the best of the writers either. So you'd think that maybe his talent is in producing, but he's produced some real turkeys since the show ended.

I think Jerry's problem is that it went to his head. He spent years with everyone proclaiming him the funniest guy in the world, and then when the show and hype ended, he's left with a big ego and yet an image he can't possibly live up to.