{"id":2237395,"date":"2024-05-04T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seinfeld-actor-john-ohurley-rips-woke-culture-for-ruining-comedy\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:36:53","slug":"seinfeld-actor-john-ohurley-rips-woke-culture-for-ruining-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seinfeld-actor-john-ohurley-rips-woke-culture-for-ruining-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor John O&#8217;Hurley Criticizes Woke Culture Impact on Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseinfeld-actor-john-ohurley-rips-woke-culture-for-ruining-comedy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2237395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor John\u200b O&#8217;Hurley, \u200dknown for\u200b his role as J. Peterman on &#8220;Seinfeld,&#8221; criticized woke culture following Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s remarks on the Left&#8217;s impact on TV comedy. Seinfeld expressed concerns about\u200c the lack of diverse\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-gutfeld-bypasses-colbert-in-late-night-show-viewers-key-age-demographics\/\" title=\"Fox News\u2019 \u2018Gutfeld!\u2019 Bypasses Colbert In Late Night Show Viewers, Key Age Demographics\">comedy shows<\/a> \u2063due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grave-of-robert-e-lees-horse-desecrated-plaque-to-beloved-traveller-removed\/\" title=\"Robert E. Lee's horse's grave vandalized, tribute plaque removed.\">excessive political correctness<\/a>. He emphasized the \u200daudience&#8217;s role in guiding stand-up comedy, contrasting it with scripted content&#8217;s bureaucratic limitations. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-euphoria-star-no-longer-interested-in-playing-trans-parts-i-find-it-ultimately-demeaning\/\" title=\"Euphoria Star No Longer Wants to Play Trans Roles, Finding It Demeaning\">summary \u200deffectively captures<\/a>\u200c how \u2063actor John O&#8217;Hurley criticized woke culture in response \u200dto Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s comments on\u200c the influence of the \u200bLeft on\u2063 TV comedy.\u2063 Seinfeld highlighted the\u2063 impact of political correctness on the diversity of comedy shows and\u200d emphasized the audience&#8217;s vital role in \u2062shaping stand-up \u200bcomedy, \u2063contrasting \u2064it with scripted content&#8217;s constraints.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Actor John O\u2019Hurley, who is known for playing J. Peterman on NBC\u2019s \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d slammed woke culture in an interview this week after the show\u2019s star, Jerry Seinfeld, recently railed against the political Left for ruining television <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/comedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seinfeld told The New Yorker this week that people used to be able to turn on television and find a wide range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-colbert-to-bring-live-audience-back-to-late-night-show\/\" title=\"Stephen Colbert To Bring Live Audience Back To Late Night Show\">good comedy shows<\/a> every night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, guess what \u2014 where is it? This is the result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-anti-israel-activist-heading-to-biden-state-dept\/\" title=\"Report:\u00a0Anti-Israel Activist Heading to Biden State Dept\">extreme left<\/a> and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people,\u201d Seinfeld said. \u201cNow they\u2019re going to see stand up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we\u2019re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups \u2014 \u2018Here\u2019s our thought about this joke,&#8217;\u201d he added. \u201cWell, that\u2019s the end of your comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hurley responded to Seinfeld\u2019s remarks during a Fox News interview this week where he recounted numerous jokes they made on the show.<\/p>\n<p>He said that leftists have caused the country to lose \u201cour ability to be silly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a sad thing when you think about it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hurley said that Seinfeld was the cleanest comedy there has been in a long time, and the fact that even he won\u2019t perform for certain groups in today\u2019s world is significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a cleaner comic in the business in the last 50 years of our laughs, and for him to say that \u2014 and he said this about 10 years ago, when he said, \u2018I no longer am doing college campuses.\u2019 He says they\u2019re they\u2019re mean-spirited,\u201d O\u2019Hurley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, ethnic groups would be searching to be included in the comic repertoire of our culture,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd now \u2014 no, no, no \u2014 we can\u2019t. And it\u2019s not that they don\u2019t want it, it\u2019s that there\u2019s a select group of those who know better who feel as though they should be deprived of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur comedy is no longer silly. It\u2019s not about that. It\u2019s mocking and it\u2019s sarcasm, and that\u2019s not comedy,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jerry Seinfeld says the extreme left killed comedy. Seinfeld actor, John O\u2019Hurley, gives Primetime his take. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8YTMjX14N\">pic.twitter.com\/f8YTMjX14N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseBWatters\/status\/1785113795087446320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O&#8217;Hurley, famous for his role as J. 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