This, in my opinion, is completely equally as stupid as the manufactured Coke outrage.
http://gawker.com/who-cares-about-diversity-in-comedy-says-jerry-seinf-1515412052"Who Cares" About Diversity in Comedy, Says Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld, the most successful comedian in the world and maker of comedy for and about white people, isn't interested in trying to include non-white anything in his work.
When asked why he featured so many white men in his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee during a Buzzfeed interview on CBS This Morning, Seinfeld seemed offended by the very question. "It really pisses me off," he said. "People think [comedy] is the census or something, it's gotta represent the actual pie chart of America. Who cares?"
BuzzFeed Business Editor Peter Lauria seemed hesitant to pursue the frank answer, but the comedian continued on anyway. "Funny is the world that I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested," he said. "I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that." He seems to suggest that any comedian who is not a white male is also not funny, though he's also likely fed up with the amount of bad comedy he's been forced to sit through in his (waning) career.
Which is too bad, because Seinfeld is downplaying the work of everyone from Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby to Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, and Eddie Huang, who are all in various stages of their own sitcoms that just might turn out to be the next Seinfeld.
Here are the few episodes of Comedians in Cars with people who are not white men (which definitely does not include the Super Bowl Seinfeld reunion):
Tina Fey
Chris Rock
Sarah Silverman
Mario Joyner (with Colin Quinn, but hey)
In conclusion: Yes, comedy should represent the entire pie chart of America, and the glorious, multicolored diversity pie should be thrown directly at Jerry Seinfeld's face.
I'm sure those outraged in the other thread will agree with me in this thread.
Don't be outraged over the outrage though, GH2001.
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