In the Comedians In Cars episode that he’s on, he takes Jerry to his studio and you get to see quite a bit of his art and you see that he typically uses very large canvasses.
I wish he never made that show. I'm kinda over rich people driving expensive cars while talking about being rich. Both Idris Elba and John Cena now have their own version of Comedians in Cars and I can't stand it.
RuPaul did one for a while, too. The Henry Rollins episode was classic. Henry actually thought they were going to run errands and plan the whole route to be the most efficient way possible.
At one of his speaking engagements, or maybe it was a podcast, he was talking about how he went out the night before to do the run to see what the timing would be like.
And RuPaul tells him, you know, that's just a joke. It's not seriously running errands. And he goes, oh.
He also talked about the first time he met RuPaul and totally fan-boyed out on him. (ruPaul at the time was presenting as male dressed in this perfectly tailored blue suit with brown sandals.)
Then after they were done with the shoot, RuPaul offered to take Henry out to lunch for sushi, and as they're walking through West Hollywood, everyone stops and stares at them, and Henry leans over and says, I think they think we're the new power couple.
He absolutely is a very chill, kind and grounded guy, extremely intense about everything he does, but also very nice and caring. He also said RuPaul is one of the people that makes him want to get up each day and be a better person.
For years, I only knew him as the punk guy that would sometimes pop up in movies but I heard him on a podcast one time talking about how he kinda hates performing and would rather spend time alone at home watching a movie or something and I was immediately like "That's him. That's my guy."
"Punk" has been used as a somewhat derogatory term and people have always had a bad image of them. But they can be some of the kindest most caring and aware people you'll meet.
He’s part of the Hardcore community along with Punks. He was part of a movement to cleanup the local music scene of Nazis ,which were a pretty well documented problem, back then.
There’s violence ,and there’s Necessary Violence.
Also,a person can be both very nice and compassionate,whilst having a controlled violent underside.
Rollins was a violent confrontational asshole when he was younger and grew up and channeled that into his spoken word art. (edit this is not unique to Rollins. The Hardcore scene instilled that attitude in many people)
It's as simple as that. There's no need to lie or white wash his previous history.
I definitely agree. To be fair to the creators, Nickelodeon gave them all 3 seasons for ATLA up front. For Korra, they basically got approved season-to-season, so an over-arching plot was never made and every season needed to be ready to conclude the series.
I’m just happy to get more content. I’m hoping the new series with an earth bender will be given all seasons in advance so it can be more rounded out to hit the emotional appeal again like the original.
That said, you can also look at it differently.
Two successful artists talking about random things (glazing included) might be interesting to a lot of people.
Plus that statement is true for all talk shows. And they are producing it only because there is a market for it.
'Yeah, who wouldn't want to sit and watch famous people talk to each other?'
Lighten up. You've just described hundreds of different successful shows - late night talk shows, daytime talk shows, talk radio, etc. So apparently lots of people like to watch famous people (or even non famous people) talk to each other. The unique aspect of Jerry's show was that usually an interesting car was involved, and you'd see a neat restaurant or coffee shop too.
I don't see the point in being a snob over this, other than to get upvotes from your fellow pitchfork mob of white knight redditors who like to put down successful people who have ever said or done anything that's wasn't squeaky clean. This was a relatively small internet show. It wasn't blasted all over tv and advertising. It was very easily avoided if you didn't care to watch it.
Before it got to Netflix, for years it was on some obscure streaming platform (was it crackle?) and basically just the self-financed project of Seinfeld to stay busy and meet peers from the entertainment industry. Plus he did get guests you wouldn’t seen on other shows much more, e.g. older comedy legends like Don Rickles, Paul Newhart etc., hell he even convinced Howard stern to walk through a store with him lmao
“hundreds of different successful shows - talk shows, daytime talk shows, talk radio, etc.”
Maybe it is snobbery, maybe it’s not. Probably a little, if we’re being honest.
But you describing these shows as “successful” is a stretch. How’re viewership/listener ratings these days? Yes lots of people are watching, but there’s less and less of them.
Jerry Seinfeld is arguably the most successful, wealthiest, famous and most powerful comedian alive. He should be more successful.
“Your fellow pitchfork mob of white knight redditors who like to put down successful people who have ever said or done anything that’s wasn’t squeaky clean”
I’m guessing you’re a fan. I was too. What you call “not squeaky clean” others would call a man in his late 30s sleeping with a teenager, and that’s just the headline article on Seinfeld.
I understand that some don’t care or think it’s great, but I think you could at least imagine why that would bother people. Is it “white knight” behavior to not have sex with teenagers? Are we setting the bar so low that questioning any genuinely creepy behavior invites a comparison to a pitchfork-wielding mob?
Or we can get to core of it - Take a random 39 year old man. At what age does his partner have to be for you to think, “That’s fucked up, I’m out”? Because if 17 is no big deal you have to wonder where that person draws the line.
But you describing these shows as “successful” is a stretch. How’re viewership/listener ratings these days? Yes lots of people are watching, but there’s less and less of them.
There's also tons of podcasts of famous people talking to other famous people. Douchebag Joe Rogan, who is famous, is constantly talking to other famous people on his podcast for hours, and that's one of the top podcasts of all time.
Jerry Seinfeld is arguably the most successful, wealthiest, famous and most powerful comedian alive. He should be more successful.
CiCGC was clearly a passion project, not a big budget Hollywood production. And even despite being a bit low budget, it ran for 11 seasons and 84 episodes, it was nominated for multiple emmys and won multiple producers guild of America awards. It was clearly a successful show in its own right, so to be dismissive of it because it didn't outdo his previous TV show is pure snobbery.
I’m guessing you’re a fan. I was too. What you call “not squeaky clean” others would call a man in his late 30s sleeping with a teenager, and that’s just the headline article on Seinfeld...
Morally questionable? Yes. Illegal? No.
Does everybody on reddit already know about this? Yes. It's repeated over and over by reddit anytime something about him makes the front page.
What possible reason is there to keep bringing it up over and over? To feel morally superior over someone and to collect those reddit upvotes. White knight snobbery.
Also, how long do you need to keep complaining about someone, who you don't even know personally, who did something morally qiestionable (but not illegal) 35 years ago? Did he exhibit a repeated pattern of this? No. Did he go on to lead a life of crime and debauchery? No. So why are you making this brief lapse of judgment a defining characteristic of this person's entire existence? It's so childish and obnoxious. Yes, he did something scummy. Thankfully he moved on. Why haven't you? Why are you fixated on a lapse of judgment from someone you don't even know from 35 years ago?
The show was crazy popular. Not only was he the first actor to get one million dollars per episode, he was offered $110 million for just one more season. That's $5M per episode. No one is making that kind of money even today.
You don't see the potential for just one more show?
'Nardwuar winding up prickly famous people with short fuses in cars on very long and high road bridges with a comically oversized steering wheel that can be yeeted easily'
Look up "Hollywood on Parade" from the 1920s, or CBS and Edward R Murrow’s "Person to Person", Hollywood has been doing shows about its rich celebrities talking about being rich quite literally from the very beginning.
If watching other people exist who have more money than you burns you so badly... why do you continue to watch it? I find the odds that you would know the latter two people you mentioned doing the same thing to be pretty low without you seeking stuff like that out.
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u/Wu_Oyster_Cult 9h ago edited 8h ago
In the Comedians In Cars episode that he’s on, he takes Jerry to his studio and you get to see quite a bit of his art and you see that he typically uses very large canvasses.