A Response to Seinfeld
I’m an offensive comedian. I know exactly who I am, and I’m not for everyone. But that’s ok. Here’s a crazy idea; if your joke offends someone… just keep going. If a 6 year old is running, falls down in front of me, skins their knee, and starts crying. I don’t pick them up and carry them, and I also don’t yell at them to stop crying. I just step over them. He knew the risks when he started running with his useless, 6 year old undeveloped legs.
Feeling like you matter is the greatest drug there is, and both sides are selling the stuff by the pound. The PC people are commenting and writing blogs about how offended they are, and comedians are complaining and responding to their blogs. It’s arrogant of either party to believe that their opinion is so powerful it can change the opinion of someone else. You’re not important. I am not important. What you’re reading right now is not important. Neither of us is T.S. Eliot.
I am not a Jerry Seinfeld fan at all. Ask anyone who knows me. I think his show was terrible, and I think his stand up is manila. I like him even less now that he’s crying about college kids being too PC. When in reality they should be treated like any child throwing a tantrum, and just be ignored. In a perfect world, I’d make both college kids and Jerry Seinfeld go sit in a corner. I hope that eventually one side is going to be the bigger man, and just go about their business. I also hope that side is the comedians.
However, I will say this. If you’re disrespectful enough to come to one of my shows, and interrupt it because you’re offended, you’ve chosen to go from passive to active. None of my jokes were directed at you personally. It was not my intention to hurt you. It was my intention to make you laugh. As soon as you speak, that changes. You’ve stopped me from doing my job that I love. My job of talking to a room full of different personalities and views of life that paid money to get in. You’ve now made it entirely about yourself. And there is absolutely nothing I won’t say to you. I’m not nearly as famous as Daniel Tosh, so there will be no apologies issued.
by Matt Fernandez
