In his recent appearance on Honestly With Bari Weiss, Jerry Seinfeld commented on the humor he finds in bad reviews following the largely negative press surrounding his most recent film Unfrosted. In the interview, Seinfeld stated “The only thing I want to read are [sic] the absolute worst reviews”, claiming that “there’s nothing funnier to me than people complaining they didn’t laugh.”
Seinfeld’s directorial debut Unfrosted, a fictionalized retelling of the battle between Post and Kellogg’s to make a breakfast pastry in the 1960s, received a rating of only 43 percent fresh from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. However, Seinfeld appears unfazed, stating “Why would I think that I’m going to make something that everyone will like? What sense does that make? You have to be insane to think like that.”
While reminiscing about the 1960s, an era Seinfeld described as “attractive looking back”, Seinfeld proclaimed that he misses “dominant masculinity” and likes “a real man”, recalling the appeal of masculine figures from the 1960s such as John F. Kennedy, Muhammed Ali, and Sean Connery. Although prefacing his comments by stating, “I get the toxic thing,” Seinfeld’s statements regarding the value he sees in expressions of traditional masculinity are sure to cause a stir.
However, Seinfeld is no stranger to controversy. In 1993, 38-year-old Seinfeld was engaged in a controversial romantic relationship with 17-year-old Shoshanna Lonstein, student at Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City. During Seinfeld’s commencement speech at Duke University earlier this month, many student protestors walked out in response to Seinfeld’s public support of Israel while others could be heard booing and waving Palestinian flags. While his comments on masculinity are sure to cause an uncomfortable buzz in Hollywood, the world of controversy is not unfamiliar turf for Jerry Seinfeld.
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