“Because of our burgeoning Muslim population”
Seinfeld was a fairly apolitical show. (Although any show from that era would be considered suspiciously apolitical today.)
Jerry Seinfeld flew out to Israel after Oct 7 to support the victims of that attack. In response, Islamic and Marxist activists have spent years harassing him and lying about him only for Seinfeld to breezily mock them and dismiss them. Seinfeld co-creator Larry David had spent that time awkwardly getting politics by promoting Democrats and bashing Republicans. Curb Your Enthusiasm ended on an even more awkward note than the Seinfeld note by trying some election interference based on a fundamental misunderstanding of election law.
Larry David raised money for Florida Senate candidate Alex Vindman, only for that money to be diverted to radical leftists like Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Dixon.
Maybe he’s learned something now.
In The View From Here (paywalled), David takes some fairly light shots at the DSA. It’s been a long time since Larry David was edgy and he isn’t edgy here. (To be fair, it might sound better as a standup bit than as a written text.) Like a lot of Democrat comedy that punches left, it acts as if the left is just foolishly naive, or maybe its punch lines are just dressed up in that ‘clown nose on’ defense.
Take the satire that bites at the end of that last sentence. “When the D.S.A. takes over, it will be our policy to close the jails and release all prisoners… People will be encouraged to give them a pat on the back, offer some words of encouragement, and maybe even get them to open up about their crimes. Imagine how upsetting it must be to know you’ve taken a life! ”
Or take this ticker that Larry David bought to his own cancelation. “The D.S.A. has great respect for religious traditions. Because of our burgeoning Muslim population, we want to take all measures to give these people a strong sense of belonging in America. Along those lines, we’ll require that all Caucasian women wear a hijab on weekends in solidarity with their Muslim sisters.”
Does David realize that this movement is antisemitic? Yeah. “We strongly believe in a two-state solution. To this end, we propose that Palestinians should be given all the land currently occupied by Israel and that Israel should be given Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific, where the weather is beautiful and grapefruits are aplenty. We think the Bagel People will be very happy there… any comedian who is responsible for causing emotional discomfort in any way will be… sent to Pitcairn Island to live with the Bagel People.”
The thing about these jokes is that some of them are barely satire and others sound like Soviet anecdotes in which there’s nothing left to do but be mildly subversive. Larry David got in the tank for Dems. Will he do anything to stop the DSA? That way leads to Pitcairn Island.
somehistory says
The idiot can wear whatever on his head, but I refuse to wear a slave rag which says it’s okay to rape a girl who allows her hair to blow loose in the breeze.
And the so-called “palestinians” can be sent to some atoll in the ocean where they can live and worship their satanic fake god.
So much evil and it’s growing. This idiot believes himself to be witty, but he’s a fool.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If non-muslimah DSA women had to wear niqabs, wouldn’t that be cultural appropriation? Which the DSA loathes?
somehistory says
it’ very much like islime….whatever they say at any given time which floats their boats, however irrational and contradictory.
crown says
Larry David… one of the funniest guys on the planet. Some of the material he did with “Smoove”, for example, on Curb was hysterical. And he doesn’t seem to have any comedic boundaries.
Politically? An absolute imbecile.
Kepha says
Uncle Kepha gave up on comedy shows long ago. While there were occasional witty lines, most seemed to fall into the same old same old imbecilic Leftwing politics. The last straw was when Tina Faye (sp?) thinking herself witty for lampooning Sarah Palin’s “belief” (actually sound and pretty simple geographic awareness) that Alaska was next to Russia–and the whole Left side of the spectrum laughing along with her at supposed proof of GOP stupidity.
Hence, if Larry David once made some witticisms, OK. I admit that I liked a lot of his _Curb Your Enthusiasm_. But, it seems that the entertainment industry is simply too riddled with political imbecility, useful foolery, and willful blindness to deserve my support.
40 rounds says
Great talent, great imbecile, what a shame. Larry it’s time you learned what side your bread is buttered on
gravenimage says
Larry David Jokes About the DSA Making Women Wear Hijabs to Appease Muslims
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And this is a joke–how, exactly?
On his show Curb Your Enthusiasm, he somehow runs afoul of Jihadists (I forget how, now) and is worried until Salman Rushdie guest stars (seriously!) and tells him that being in hiding from Jihad terrorists will make him a ‘chick magnet’. Probably funnier before the latest Jihad attack where Rushdie lost an eye? Or not…
Troybeam says
What he makes as a joke is actually a reality as DSA women have already bowed to this as they try and state I support this :religious ” act of humility.”
DSA women turn a blind eye to the actual treatment of women in Islam but hey they will soon learn and scream ” I supported you” while being subjected to islamic treatment.