Jerry Seinfeld Doesn't Play Colleges: "They're So P.C."

Comedian explains how younger generation is quick to call things "racist" and "sexist" and "prejudice"

Jerry Seinfeld would like us to lighten up.

Reason being? We're too P.C. to LOL! Seinfeld acknowledged this societal abundance of political correctness in an interview with ESPN Radio's The Herd with Colin Cowherd, saying he hears from fellow comedians like Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy "all the time" that this is why they no don't do college shows anymore.

"I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, don't go near colleges," he reiterated. "They're so P.C."

It has to do with a generational gap... "I'll give you an example," Seinfeld said. "My daughter's 14. My wife says to her, 'Well, you know, in the next couple of years, I think maybe you're going to want to be hanging around the city more on the weekends, so you can see boys.' And you know what my daughter says? She says, 'That's sexist.'"

Wait, what? "They just want to use these words," Seinfeld reasoned. "'That's racist. That's sexist. That's prejudice.' They don't know what the f--k they're talking about."

Does it hurt comedy? "Yes it does," he told Cowherd. "Yes it does."

There are still some comedians, though, like Louis C.K., who can touch on politically incorrect matters in their sets. As Seinfeld described it, to The Herd, though, "Louis' great gift is he doesn't worry. He just does his thing."

"If I wanted to say something, I would say it," he went on. "Everybody has their hot zone. You got your heat map, and that's the jokes you do," he said. "I talk about the subjects I talk about because for some reason, I can make them funny. The ones I can't make funny, you don't hear."

Now, if anybody starts to take offense at normcore humor, we're gonna have a problem...