Likening the job of a comedian to that of a “champion skier,” Seinfeld says that society “can put the gate anywhere on the mountain and [comedians are] going to make the gate” because if you don’t, “you’re out of the game.” Perhaps it’s never too late to learn that if the audience isn’t laughing, maybe the joke is the problem, not the audience.

Jerry Seinfeld is walking back comments he made earlier this year blaming political correctness ruining comedy.