Jerry Seinfeld takes heat over race remarks

[alp227]

Don't ask Jerry Seinfeld about race.

In a recent interview with Buzzfeed on "CBS This Morning" the comedian was asked about the fact that most of the guests on his Web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" have been white males. Seinfeld's initial response was "It really pisses me off."

"People think (comedy) is the census or something, it's gotta represent the actual pie chart of America," he said. "Who cares?"

With his Super Bowl commercial, Seinfeld is back on the radar, but his comments come at the same time as debate about diversity in comedy. "Saturday Night Live" hired its first black female cast member in years after an outcry over the show's lack of diversity.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/jerry-seinfeld-race-gender-diversity/

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[Ed Suspicious]

1. Look, I'm all for fighting systemic racism. Evil insidious shit that is...

That said, I don't feel the need to dictate to Jerry Seinfeld the demographics of his web show guests. I love the show. I know, just doing a quick scan of the memory banks in my head that he has at least two black men on his show. It's a comedy that is actually really about nothing. I think his first guest ever might have been Chris Rock. I would have a hard time believing he was intentionally not including African-American comics. I think he just picks comics who he thinks are funny.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Yeah, Seinfeld, what's up with that???

[alp227]

4. He just HAD TO follow Kramer's lead.

[Logical]

3. Good for him, and I am fine with the Tyler Perry movies too! nt

[delrem]

5. "race remarks"....

What a nauseating spin to put on Seinfeld's reply (and work).

Whatever so-called substance this article has depends entirely on:
"Gawker writer Kyle Chayka writes that by Seinfeld saying, "I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that," the comic "seems to suggest that...""
So the so-called substance of the article consists entirely of innuendo invented by some "Gawker writer" (that national enquirer type wannabe).

Yah, "race remarks" indeed! We can do better than this, people.

[joeglow3]

6. Really?

Is there any proof beyond percentage of guests? I LOVED In Living Color. We're they racist?

[ecstatic]

7. His association with Michael Richards is a big clue

Birds of a feather....

[Th1onein]

8. Oh bull.

I've known racists; worked with them. Had idiot relatives who were racists. That doesn't make me a racist, too.