Howard Stern is excusing the “weird” comments his friend Jerry Seinfeld made about him having no “comedy chops,” since Seinfeld had just “came off a really bad week” battling what Stern called “blatant antisemitism.”
Stern addressed Seinfeld’s comment that Stern wasn’t a comedian and that his show had been “outflanked” by other comedic interview shows on the air today, in a new episode of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM. Speaking about the comments, as first reported by The Things, Stern recalled how “Jerry had said that basically I’m an interviewer and that I’m not a comedian and that now comedians have podcasts and comedians are, you know, funnier or something than me,” adding, “I read it, and I went, ‘Oh, that’s weird’.”
During an appearance on the Fly On The Wall podcast with comedians and Saturday Night Live! alums Dana Carvey and David Spade this month, Seinfeld brought up Stern and compared their show to his. “Howard Stern invented this, right?” Seinfeld said, “Howard is interesting. Howard is a great interviewer, but comedy chops, I mean, can we speak candidly?” and concluded, “Let’s face it, he’s been outflanked.”
