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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

‘It’s good to be vigilant’ … Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
‘It’s good to be vigilant’ … Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Photograph: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has pushed back at former co-star Jerry Seinfeld’s negative remarks about “political correctness” in comedy, saying that having “an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing” and that complaining about political correctness is “a red flag, because it sometimes means something else”.

Louis-Dreyfus was speaking to the New York Times and was asked about Seinfeld’s claim that TV comedy had been wrecked by “the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people”. Louis-Dreyfus responded by saying: “I think to have an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing. It doesn’t mean that all comedy goes out the window as a result.”

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