Jerry Seinfeld sat down with Buzzfeed and when asked of his lack of race and gender diversity within his Seinfeld series, the comedian stated what matters is whether the person is funny or not. Well Comedienne Nicole Byor has responded to Jerry’s comments, with some of her own! Hit the jump for more.
Nicole Byor has lashed back at Jerry Seinfeld’s latest comments towards diversity within comedy, where he stated that he has no intentions on varying his projects, and has not seen an issue with his lack of diversification:
“People think it’s the census or something,” he said. “This has gotta represent the actual pie chart of America? Who cares? Funny is the world that I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested. I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that..It’s more about PC nonsense than ‘Are you making us laugh or not?”
After watching the Buzzfeed interview, Comedienne Nicole Byor, took to her Tumblr and wrote her feelings on Seinfeld’s lack of interest in diversity:
YES JERRY YES! FINALLY! Diversity doesn’t matter in comedy or anywhere else in the world. The entertainment world shouldn’t reflect the real world. What a f**king weird thing to say that you don’t care about diversity. Why wouldn’t you want to enrich your comedy by having a different point of view to make your comedy better? I think funny to Jerry is white… I think I would be less offended if he straight up just said I have white people on my web series because I like white people my comedy is for white people and I AM WHITE PEOPLE! Then put on his hood and yelled WHITE POWER and burned a cross on stage. JK if he did the last part I might be offended… but not really. Theres no shame in liking what you like. Like that Duck Dynasty dude saying he doesn’t like gays… well cool, now I never have to watch a show that I’ve never had an interest in watching. Know what I mean? This is the same… I’ve never seen a full episode of Seinfeld and I doubt I will… his funny isn’t my cup of vodka… and I cant seem to forgive his buddy for screaming the N word to an audience of people who paid to watch him “just be funny…
I do think the funniest person should get recognition/work/whatever but as a minority its hard. Very hard… partly because no one is really looking for our story… Sure there were a bunch of black people movies this year… but where were the hispanic movies? The Asian movies? The hungarian american movies? UGH I COULD GO ON ALL DAY ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT AND RACE. However I will end on this… the race problem in america will be solved when there are more JLo movies. ”
Check out Jerry Seinfeld’s original comments below, and let us know what you think!
