Recommend Seinfeld's special on Netflix. Relatively clean (his act usually is), and informative about him, and where he started.
I liked his stand up a long while back. Never liked the show or understood that ascension. And some of the things he's had to say about others, punching down, hasn't sat well with me. His semi-sneering at Kimmel's reverence for Letterman, by way of example. Saw him on Seth's show a while back and he was funny, but he kept saying how he didn't want to be there so he shouldn't have to do a pre interview and that it was up to Seth to engage him. . . I thought that was a bit toolish, if funny. Again, a variation on punching down. It's not refreshingly honest, it's rude.
I might watch it though.
Meanwhile, I've given up on the Fox Sci-fi show, the Orville. MacFarland just can't get out of his way. First, he's turned what seemed like an interesting alien character into a gay rights shtick, as we learn his people are all one sex, male. And then lo and behold they give birth to a girl and an episode of having that "corrected" begins, ending (of course) with the operation taking place by the shows end, against the conventions of that sort of contrivance and tailored to make everyone watching irate with it, which feeds back into a clever way of making us identify with people who don't like the bigoted gay response, which really means setting up dissonance within those who have advanced a similar approach to homosexuals.
I'll give it clever points, but it's tiring and heavy handed even so. Then, in the opening of episode four the crew encounters a vast and ancient ship drifting through space, meet its inhabitants who have long forgotten they're on a ship aaaaaaand we're off on his second love, taking a shot at faith. The backwards people have it and the advanced don't. By the time the robot side kick "explains" that primitive peoples believe in God and tells a local boy that science teaches something from nothing is an understandable part of our understanding...I'd just had enough.
He had a feel for the sentiment of developing a potentially good show, but the crude jokes that pop up from time to time, and his inability to not turn it all into a condescending bully pulpit have undone that much good will. I'm through with it.
