Jerry Seinfeld: People Tell Me, ‘Don’t Go Near Colleges, They’re So PC’
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld says he’s been warned by fellow comedians to avoid college campuses because they’re too politically correct.
In an interview with ESPN radio Thursday, Seinfeld said he was warned by other comedians to avoid doing comedy at colleges as students tend to throw out words like “sexist” and “racist” without knowing what those words actually mean.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaks onstage at Spike TV’s “Don Rickles: One Night Only,” May 6, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Spike TV)
“I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC.’ My daughter’s 14. My wife says to her, ‘Well, you know, in the next couple of years, I think maybe you’re going to want to hang around the city more on the weekends so you can see boys.’ You know, my daughter says, ‘That’s sexist.’ They just want to use these words. ‘That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice.’ They don’t even know what they’re talking about.”
Seinfeld isn’t alone in his opinion of college campuses. Last year, Chris Rock announced that he had stopped performing on college campuses as they’ve become “too conservative” with social views and “their willingness not to offend anybody.”
Seinfeld also railed against political correctness last year when he was confronted over an apparent lack of diversity among the guests on his show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
“I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that,” Seinfeld said in an interview. “But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating — is this the exact right mix? I think that’s — to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.”
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