Jerry Seinfeld on Louis C.K., Roseanne and tense times in comedy
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A: If there’s a crime here, and the law gets involved, that’s what the law is for. The laws of comedy, we kind of make them up as we go. Part of entertainment, sometimes, is the life of the person. We want that to entertain us, too, as part of the act. We like your show, and then we like your messed-up life. That entertains us as well. When you saw Richard Pryor, it was more than just the act. You’re in the room with this guy who lived this crazy life. Somebody said it’s the first time that someone has misbehaved where all people ask about is, “How’s the perpetrator? How’s he doing?” They don’t ask, “How’s the victim?” Didn’t Sarah Silverman say the other day that she was doing this stuff with him?
Q: In her case, it was consensual.
A: [Deeply sarcastic] That’s fantastic.
Q: Before the revelations of his crimes, was Bill Cosby someone you had admired?
A: I totally did. But when that happens, that’s too big a safe falling out of a window to ignore. The crash is too loud. The thing I think that’s new for people let’s take Roseanne and Cosby is the suddenness and the precipitous fall. So much work, gone so fast. We’re upset at the speed of it, because it’s new. I would say about Roseanne, I never saw anything that bad happen from a finger-tap on a screen. A whole career: gone. That’s an aspect of this unease we feel, that you just wake up “Oh, by the way, the Lincoln Memorial’s gone.””What?””Yeah, they took it down. They found out Lincoln was fooling around and they took it down.””Oh, my God. All right, I guess I have to adjust to that. I really liked the Lincoln Memorial.”
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