(written by Terry MacNeil, on June 17-19, 22-23, 2025)

I think it was about a year ago that I read Jerry Seinfeld’s book SeinLanguage – a book that should’ve served as a warning to all of humanity that Seinfeld is not nearly as funny as he’s reputed to be. Well, he was the main star of the TV series Seinfeld – and also it’s co-creator. And I consider Seinfeld to be one of the most hilarious TV shows ever made. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that I learned what the actual job of a “creator” of a TV series is – as well as the amount of actual writing Seinfeld contributed to Seinfeld. Also, Seinfeld’s post-Seinfeld work (like Bee Movie, but especially Unfrosted) sure make him appear to be a talentless hack.

Speaking of Unfrosted, I watched that movie while drunk out of my mind last year – and the next day, I barely remembered any of it. One thing I did remember, was that I felt intense hatred for the film. So today, I rewatched Unfrosted – sober. And boy, do I ever regret that.

So Bee Movie had an anti-socialist message, but Unfrosted is so nakedly pro-capitalist – by comparison, it makes Bee Movie look as if it had been written by Marxists. Seinfeld seems to have this gross (and bizarre) nostalgia/affection for the Corporate America of the mid-twentieth century. That was pre-Vietnam War, and before the rise of the 1960s/1970s “New Left”. But most importantly – the early 1960s was the time of Seinfeld’s childhood. It’s clear he’s one of those reactionaries that wants to go back to the America of the 1950s – a more “innocent” time of unapologetic racism, sexual harassment, anti-feminism, anti-Communism, anti-LGBTQIA+, etc.

Seinfeld, who has long been publicly upfront that he’s a fanboy of the Apartheid State of Israel (ASOI) – also loves to collaborate with the mass murderous Israeli Defence Force (IDF) for PR stunts. So Seinfeld loves to make “state terrorists” look good – as long as they’re Jewish (and paranoid)! That said, I’m willing to cut every Jew on Earth some slack – for the last several thousand years of World history that they suffered under. I mean, in terms of the entire history of the World – the Holocaust wasn’t so long ago. So I can see why so many of the World’s Jews are paranoid – and see danger everywhere (even where it’s non-existent). BUT citing “the Holocaust” or “anti-Semitism” or “they want to genocide us” as excuses to commit ethnic cleansing and/or a genocide of your own SHOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE to EVERYONE.

There is the clip that went viral, of an amusing dude asking Seinfeld to say “Free Palestine” for the camera. Then Seinfeld (notoriously) said “I don’t care about Palestine” and walked away. I’m not 100% certain what Seinfeld meant by that – because he clearly cares a great deal about Israel. Is Seinfeld saying he doesn’t care about Palestinians being mass murdered by the IDF? Is Seinfeld saying he opposes a two-state solution? Well, if anyone were to ask Seinfeld to clarify his statement – I doubt we’d ever get an honest answer from him.

In hindsight, I would say Seinfeld CAN be funny – but ONLY when someone else writes material for him to deliver. And I would say that’s the reason Seinfeld was able to deliver such a genuinely hilarious performance as “Jerry Seinfeld” in the TV series Seinfeld (and I am also convinced that 95% of the personality of the detestable “Jerry Seinfeld” character was based on that of the real-life Jerry Seinfeld – so I’m convinced Seinfeld was largely portraying himself). As for the book SeinLanguage – that seems to me to have been entirely written by Seinfeld himself, judging by how unfunny it is. Well, I did laugh at the brief part in the book where he wrote about airplanes crashing, and airplanes that explode on take-off. But that was it. Ⓐ