Jerry Seinfeld will not be performing at a college near you anytime soon.
In a radio interview with ESPN's Colin Cowherd on Monday morning to promote season six of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," Seinfeld explained that political correctness, specifically at colleges across the country, is seriously hurting comedy.
The topic came up after Cowherd said that Chris Rock, among other comedians, have recently said that doing stand-up at colleges is getting more difficult because of political correctness on campuses. That's when Seinfeld opened up.
"I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, 'Don't go near colleges. They're so PC,'" he said. "I'll give you an example: My daughter's 14. My wife says to her, 'Well, you know, in the next couple years, I think maybe you're going to want to be hanging around the city more on the weekends, so you can see boys.' You know what my daughter says? She says, 'That's sexist.'"
Seinfeld continued, saying that college students don't truly understand prejudices.
"They just want to use these words: 'That's racist;' 'That's sexist;' 'That's prejudice.' They don't even know what the f**k they're talking about," he told Cowherd. When the radio show host asked if politically correctness is bad for hurting comedy, Seinfeld said yes.
"I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. 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."
The comedian had kind words for Louis C.K., whose "great gift is that he doesn't worry (about political correctness)," according to Seinfeld.
Listen to part of the interview below:
