Seinfeld actor John O’Hurley says we lost ‘ability to be silly’

Published April 30, 2024 11:50am ET



Seinfeld actor John O’Hurley has joined Jerry Seinfeld in criticizing the state of comedy, arguing that people in the modern age have lost the “ability to be silly.”

Seinfeld commented in a recent interview that there are no longer any comedy television programs due to “the extreme Left” and politically correct culture being too concerned about offending people. O’Hurley, who played entrepreneur John Peterman in the Seinfeld comedy series, was asked if there was any chance for comedy to make a return, to which he replied that it was an “interesting” question. 

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