Huh? Did you reply to the wrong person?

He doesn’t seem to get his main success was by being just a goofy little guy and the anger and ego are the main reason that he doesn’t work anymore. Adam Sandler still has tons of movies. Seinfeld’s stuff about a “real man” was weird too, even he admitted he was hardly a he-man

“They keep moving the lines in for some reason. I do this joke about the way people justify about using their cell phone. You don’t seem important the way you scroll through them like a gay French king. I did this line recently in front of a live audience. They thought, ‘What do you mean gay? What are you doing? What…

I’m sorry but do you even understand the point of the show? Larry plays a “schlemiel” who points out things that people just take for granted or don’t question. It’s not him the improver or the character being “oblivious” it’s asking people to think instead of just blindly following cultural standards

Yes. Jerry’s an elder statesman of comedy, his friends are mostly comedians, and he hosts a show where he interviews comedians. I think the majority of his kvetching is on behalf of others and what he considers to be the art form at large. He himself barely ever said anything that would offend anyone even today.

I didn’t care for the recent trans gag and I assume you’re referring to other LGBT related content. Tbf it’s like South Park where he attacks everybody, not like he’s specifically targeting a community

Is he talking about himself or all his other rich friends? (Chris Rock, Chappelle, Rogen, etc.)

Thanks for taking the time to write all that. I think just about everyone I’ve talked to about the show agrees it lost a bit of the magic at some point. 

I mean, sure, but most of them are actively working!

There are two episodes where he uses the N-word. In one, he’s helping a rapper come up with lyrics. In the other, he’s repeating what a neo-Nazi said to him in the bathroom but someone overhears and gets angry at him, which leads to the final scene where he has to again repeat what the Neo-Nazi said, but instead of…

“What’s the deal with me not being able to use the n-word or the f-word anymore?”

Speaking only for myself, if anything leads me to give him some benefit of the doubt it’s his public loathing of Trump, not anything relating to Seinfeld.

Because that’s how book tours work.

He’s so at peace with it that he’s hawking his new book on every major media outlet that will have him

I’ll never forget his shared appearance with Richards on Letterman following the incident, and Seinfeld telling the crowd who are—understandably—laughing nervously at Richards’ comments, “Stop laughing. It’s not funny.” That smug, clueless reaction pretty much sums up Seinfeld for me.

Bingo. He got flak from his kids on that specific joke, and he’s had a bug up his ass since exactly then.

I’ve watched that episode more times than I can count since it was first on, and all I thought was that it was a weird shirt that looked like a pirate, not anything gay-related. Maybe that’s just your take on it.

I would be incredibly surprised if there were people who watched Curb Your Enthusiasm and concluded that Larry David is who everyone thought Jerry Seinfeld was while watching Seinfeld. I guess time is a flat circle and it’s easy to lose context when you watch things after they originally aired, but the premise of Curb…

best I can say is he did catch flak for a “gay french king” joke in 2015; maybe the slight heat he caught for a lousy throw-away line broke his brain.

It was.