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Deborah L Williams's avatar

I feel so validated: I am one of maybe six people in the universe who never, ever liked Seinfeld. Never made me laugh (and yes, I know the lines that have entered The Discourse, aka sponge-worthy), always just thought the whole damn show was mean mean mean. And the big "finale" was the meanest ever. So. Yes. He's shitty, his wife is shitty, and basically capitalism sucks especially in America where super duper wealthy folk like to pretend they "made it on their own" up by the bootstraps baby...which is the myth of US individualism that is *such* bullshit i can't even stand it. <meekly climbs off soapbox>

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Paul Slansky's avatar

Brilliant, Jennifer. I have never been able to stand Seinfeld, and have never seen an episode of his show. I think of him as a “Did you ever notice how bad airplane food is?” kind of wildly unfunny comedian. I did see one episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” but only because it had one of the funniest people ever, Garry Shandling. There was an exchange in it that so perfectly sums up the shallowness of Seinfeld that I just went back and transcribed it for you in case you never saw it.

Seinfeld: You know, David Brenner passed away last year. Do you ever think about, like, all that material —

Shandling (laughing): I’m sorry. So I’m at a stage of my life where I actually care about the person. Here’s what I thought you were gonna say. “Did you ever realize when David Brenner died, and Robin, the actual impermanence of life?” I never thought, ”There goes a lot of material.” That’s hilarious that you think that way.

Seinfeld: Well, that was the hard part. Anybody can just pop out and live. That’s easy. Hey, all that material, he worked so hard on it, it’s just gone, it doesn’t mean anything to anyone anymore, and it took so much work to create it.

Shandling: That material, and your material, is purely a vehicle for you to express your spirit, and your soul, and your being. And that’s why you’re fantastic.

Seinfeld: So it doesn’t have any value beyond that?

Shandling: It doesn’t have any value beyond you expressing yourself spiritually, in a very soulful, spiritual way. It’s why you’re on the planet. GOD! Open up the sunroof. What year is this!

Seinfeld is insufferable. And while we’re at it, I’ve never been able to stand Larry David either.

Let’s write “They Suck” together.

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