Jerry Seinfeld continues attack on "creepy" political correctness
Jerry Seinfeld is continuing his unofficial media campaign against the bane of comedy-- politically correctness -- that began earlier this week on an ESPN radio interview.
While sharing the couch with New Yorker editor David Remnick on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Tuesday, Seinfeld continued the conversation about overly sensitive audiences after Meyers said "there are more people than ever before who will let you know when you're over the line."
"They keep moving the lines in for no reason," Seinfeld said, adding, "There's a creepy PC thing out there that really bothers me."
"I do this joke about how people justify their cell phone," the comedian recalled about a recent show in front of a live audience. "I need to have [a cell phone] with me because people are so important' -- well they don't seem very important when you scroll through them like a gay French king," the joke went.
The veteran comedian sensed the audience wasn't having it, and that they may very well be offended that he would suggest a gay French king would use a flourishing hand motion, like the one Seinfeld demonstrated.
Earlier this week Seinfeld said overzealous political correctness was hurting comedy, and that he avoids performing at colleges where young people just want to say "That's racist. That's sexist. That's prejudiced," but don't know what they're talking about.
"To me it's anti-comedy. It's more about PC-nonsense," Seinfeld had said.
Watch the Meyers segment below: