Julia Louis-Dreyfus Not-So-Subtly Takes Aim At Jerry Seinfeld’s “PC Crap” Comments: “Being Aware… Is Not A Bad Thing”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus weighed in on a hot-button topic her former co-star Jerry Seinfeld has publicly bashed in his recent press tour: political correctness.

The actress had a very different perspective than her former Seinfeld co-star in a recent interview with The New York Times.

“If you look back on comedy and drama both, let’s say 30 years ago, through the lens of today, you might find bits and pieces that don’t age well,” she said. “And 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.”

She continued, “When I hear people starting to complain about political correctness — and I understand why people might push back on it — but to me that’s a red flag, because it sometimes means something else. I believe being aware of certain sensitivities is not a bad thing. I don’t know how else to say it.”

Louis-Dreyfus event went on to call it “fantastic,” adding, “Of course I reserve the right to boo anyone who says anything that offends me, while also respecting their right to free speech.”

This is in stark contrast to the comments Seinfeld recently made on the topic while promoting his new Netflix movie, Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Movie.

Seinfeld blamed “the extreme left” for ruining comedy television.

“It used to be, you would get home at the end of the day and most people would say, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. MASH is on. Mary Tyler Moore is on. All in the Family is on,'” he said during an appearance on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. “You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left, and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

Louis-Dreyfus, who earned six Emmy awards for her performance as the problematic vice president of the United States in Veep, instead laid the blame on the state of the industry elsewhere.

“All this siloing of studios and outlets and streamers and distributors — I don’t think it’s good for the creative voice,” she told the Times, after calling out the “consolidation of money and power” in the industry. “So that’s what I want to say in terms of the threat to art.”

Seinfeld spoke on “PC” culture multiple times while promoting Unfrosted. He even seemingly warned against it while delivering a commencement speech at Dartmouth University’s graduation ceremony this past May.

The comedian apologized for the “sexual undertones” of Bee Movie between the bee protagonist Barry B. Benson and the human character Vanessa Bloome, though he told the students he “would not change it.” He urged students not to lose their sense of humor even as they try to “create a more just and inclusive society.”

“The slightly uncomfortable feeling of awkward humor is OK,” he said. “It’s not something you need to fix.”