I agree that his style is dated nowadays. Fair comment. But in the 90s his humour chops centred around absurdity and it was fresh. You needed to have seen him with 90’s eyes to see how well he fitted the times. I watch reruns of him now and he often seems flat. His observational style has moved on and the times don’t suit him anymore. But please don’t make the mistake that back in the day he wasn’t a comedy superstar. Of course, Larry David in his corner didn’t hurt.
Change '90s to the '80s and you might have a point. Seinfeld debuted in 1989. His stand up career peaked in the mid '80s. Which makes me think you don’t actually know what you’re talking about and are just repeating something you heard from someone else.
Kinda mean making this personal just for having a different opinion to you, but this is the internet, I guess.
Anyway, I’m an old fart and used to watch him before re-runs, ya know. It’s possible to form an opinion on tv shows without running around asking folk beforehand. If you don’t agree that at a certain point in time JS was good, that’s fine too.
A couple of verified facts:
“A favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in Seasons 6 and 9 and finished among the top two (along with ER of the same network) every year from 1994 to 1998. Only two other shows—I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show—have finished their runs at the top of the ratings.”
Also…
“By its third season, Seinfeld had become the most watched sitcom on American television. The final episode aired in 1998, and the show has been a popular syndicated re-run ever since. NBC offered Seinfeld $110 million—a record $5 million an episode for a 22-episode tenth season—but he declined.”
But, yes, tell me again how unfunny Seinfeld was back in the day. My entire point was at that period he was comedy gold, and no amount of revisionist snottyness changes that fact.
I didn’t hate it, I may have chuckled once. It’s a movie.
I almost want to watch it to confirm that this review produces more laughs than the movie.
I did that. Do yourself a favor and don’t:-(. This review is more densely funny than the actual show.
If you want to watch it anyway as an example of how a tired, sad old man rants about the world, then it could be good, but not “fun”:-(.
I made another comment here with much more details if you are interested, I’m not sure how to properly make a functional link to a comment in the Fediverse but here’s one that should work anyway, even though it will take you off of your instance: https://discuss.online/comment/8236963.
The world has moved on from Jerry Seinfeld
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