Robin Quivers: Seinfeld Show Was Racist




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Is there some sort of undercover frisson between Robin Quivers of the Howard Stern Show and Jerry Seinfeld? There was, for a time, some beef between Seinfeld pal Bill Maher and Howard Stern. Stern used to claim that he invented the format for "Politically Incorrect," which did not make Maher happy. Stern, though, it should be noted, also claimed to have created MTV Unplugged because bands played on his show without electric first (Howard is sort of like Little Richard that way). Then there was an episode of Politically Incorrect where Robin came on and was verbally sandbagged by Seinfeld, Bill Maher and Larry Miller for thirty minutes(all longtime pals). Now, Robin Quivers -- returning fire? -- is asserting that the Seinfeld TV Show, which, admittedly, had fewer African-American characters than even the absurd "Friends" (What New York City are these shows fucking portraying?) is racist. Stupid, yes; vapid, exclusionary and Harvard Lampoonish, yes; racist -- nah. According to Marksfriggin:

"Howard said Michael Richards was on the show one time and he was an awful interview. He was just a bore. Howard said the reason that Jerry Seinfeld went on Letterman and tried to get Richards to apologize is because they have this huge following that could turn on them because of something like that. He said he knows of people who love the show and are effected by what he said. Robin said she was never a fan of Seinfeld and she always thought the show was racist. She also said that the whole Letterman thing was really bizarre."

The Corsair watched a Seinfeld rerun yesterday. It was ... odd. It felt all homey and nice, but then ... Cosmo Kramer came on. And it put us in a dark place. Seinfeld, quite frankly, will never be the same.