{"id":19313,"date":"2015-06-09T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19313"},"modified":"2015-06-09T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T06:23:19","slug":"jerry-seinfeld-doesnt-go-near-us-colleges-because-theyre-too-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19313","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Seinfeld &#8216;doesn&#8217;t go near US colleges because they&#8217;re too PC&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College kids are too politically correct for Jerry Seinfeld.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian spoke to ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnfrontrow.com\/2015\/06\/cowherd-does-an-interview-about-nothing-with-seinfeld-that-you-cannot-miss\/\" target=\"_hplink\">an episode of &#8220;The Herd with Colin Cowherd&#8221;<\/a> to promote the latest season of &#8220;Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,&#8221; and the two talked about political correctness and comedy. Cowherd commented how comedians like Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy won&#8217;t perform at college campuses for this very reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hear that all the time,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/uproxx.com\/tv\/2015\/06\/jerry-seinfeld-doesnt-play-colleges-says-the-pc-generation-doesnt-understand-racism-and-sexism\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Seinfeld said<\/a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go near colleges. They&#8217;re so PC.&#8217; I&#8217;ll give you an example: My daughter&#8217;s 14. My wife says to her, &#8216;Well, you know, in the next couple years, I think maybe you\u2019re going to want to be hanging around the city more on the weekends, so you can see boys.&#8217; You know what my daughter says? She says, \u2018That\u2019s sexist.\u2019 They just want to use these words: &#8216;That\u2019s racist;&#8217; &#8216;That\u2019s sexist;&#8217; &#8216;That\u2019s prejudice.&#8217; They don\u2019t know what the f&#8211;k they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old star said this hurts comedy, and commended Louis C.K., who recently landed in hot water over his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/17\/louis-ck-snl-monologue-child-molesting_n_7300632.html\" target=\"_hplink\">&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; monologue about child molestation<\/a>, for not worrying and just doing his thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can listen to a clip from the interview:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zP769IdU_YE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College kids are too politically correct for Jerry Seinfeld. The comedian spoke to ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd for an episode of &#8220;The Herd with Colin Cowherd&#8221; to promote the latest season of &#8220;Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,&#8221; and the two talked about political correctness and comedy. Cowherd commented how comedians like Chris Rock and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=19313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jerry Seinfeld &#8216;doesn&#8217;t go near US colleges because they&#8217;re too PC&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,3],"tags":[11889,6115,157,3256],"class_list":["post-19313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-news","tag-jerry-seinfeld","tag-political-correctness","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/jerry-seinfeld-dad.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19315,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions\/19315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}