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Rob McElhenney Roasts Jerry Seinfeld’s Mindless Cancel Culture Take

Jerry Seinfeld says that the “extreme left” killed comedy on television and that Seinfeld would be too edgy for today’s P.C. audience – you know, the same viewers who made It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia one of the most popular shows in the world while its main characters continue to torture a homeless priest.

Every time an over-the-hump comedian makes the same complaints about how comedy is “canceled,” everyone is too sensitive and offensive humor has been banned from the mainstream, the entirety of the massive It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fandom collectively reminds whichever medium-talent comic blamed their recent career slow-down on the audience that they’ve never written a single joke that approached the level of line-crossing that Rob McElhenney and his gang have reached in 162-straight episodes and counting.

History Erased Just How Bad Europeans Smelled

As they say, history is written by the victors. This gives them a lot of latitude to adjust the details that aren’t exactly complimentary. You can just pump out a bunch of books that say you were, of course, always fighting for a good reason while your enemies were brutal savages. Especially here in America, we get an education that’s both impressively skewed and lacking at the same time. Meanwhile, records of European conquests are thoroughly sanitized, heavy on the tales of triumph and light on the admittance of war crimes. 

They’re also quite literally cleaned up in many cases, since it doesn’t jibe with the story of pious god-sent saviors that pretty much everybody they met thought they smelled absolutely horrendous.

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