“[Malia’s] first film went to Sundance and all these fancy film festivals, and she didn’t use Obama on the, as director, in the credits it said Malia Ann. She used her middle name and didn’t put Obama on there,” Obama shared during an appearance on the sports and entertainment podcast “The Pivot.”

At the time, cohost Ryan Clark asked Obama how he encourages his daughters to achieve success on their own without using the Obama family name. Contrary to the implication of the question, Obama said his children avoid receiving any assistance from him or their mother Michelle Obama.

“The challenge for us is letting us give them any help at all. I mean, they, they’re very sensitive about this stuff. They’re very stubborn about it,” Obama said, adding that he’s inquired with Malia about her decision use just her first and middle name for her flick.

“I was all like, ‘You do know they’ll know who you are.’ And she’s all like, ‘You know what, I want them to watch it that first time and not in any way have that association. So I think our daughters go out of their way to not try to leverage that,” Obama explained.

Obama then reflected on the time when he was heavily involved in politics, sharing that he told media to not bother his girls.

“Growing up the press was pretty good — I basically made a deal with the press pool, the White House press Corp, and I said, ‘You can follow me around, you can talk about me, you do whatever you need to do, leave my children alone because they have the right to grow up. They didn’t choose this. Let them grow up,'” Obama said. “And to the credit of the press, they did leave them alone. Now as they’ve gotten older there’s been some paparazzi stuff going on, and it drives them nuts because their attitude is we’re not looking for all that. So they’re grounded.”

We got to see the first glimpse of Malia branching out beyond her last name when she helped pen Donald Glover’s hit Prime Video thriller “Swarm.” She was credited on the show, which was her writing debut, under the name Malia Ann.

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While talking on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the podcast host explained how he told his fellow comedian in the past that his joke about calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” would be the one “that’s gonna get you stabbed.” Hinchcliffe – an insult comic and host of the “Kill Tony” podcast – ultimately decided to re-tell the joke at Donald Trump’s campaign stop over the weekend anyway. It did not go over well.

“I’ve gotta tell you, that joke kills at comedy clubs. I don’t like the joke, [but] it kills,” Rogan said on Wednesday. “It’s just like, if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like [groans]. But it’s a funny joke. The joke does well. But I said to him, I go, ‘Dude, that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed.’ And he used to talk about it on stage, saying, ‘Joe Rogan always says that’s the one that’s gonna get me stabbed.’”

Indeed, the joke backfired. It pushed a number of Puerto Rican artists like Jennifer Lopez and Bad Bunny to publicly back Kamala Harris. Worse for Trump, singer Nicky Jam even retracted his endorsement of the former president because of Hinchcliffe’s joke.

“The reason I supported Donald Trump is because I believed it was best for the United States economy, where a lot of Latinos live … a lot of immigrants that are suffering over the state of the economy,” Jam said Wednesday, translated from Spanish using Google Translate. “With him being a businessman, I felt it was the right move.”

He went on to say that he never expected a comedian to then trash Puerto Rico weeks later, adding, “That’s why I’m renouncing my support for Donald Trump and stepping away from political conversation. Puerto Rico deserves respect.”

Rogan added on the podcast that political rallies aren’t places where comedy thrives. Had he known Hinchcliffe’s plan, he would have said “don’t you f–king dare do that joke.” The former “Fear Factor” star does, however, think the comedian will weather the storm.

“I think it’ll blow over, just like all these things do,” Rogan said. “There’s people that are always going to hate someone like Tony, and it’s going to make other people love him more. It’s just like, he’s going through it right now. He’s going through the storm.”

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About a year ago, the “Wicked” actor saw a gap in the podcasting space that he believed he could fill as a proud, Jewish public figure. As ideas floated in his head about what this could look like, Hamas horrifically attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed over 1200 people. Platt realized that being a Jewish advocate mattered now more than ever. 

“Oct. 7 happened, and I had been seeing that I am able to provide a service to folks on social media — help them as a filter, as a contextualizer, as a calm voice in this chaotic time,” Platt told TheWrap. “I wanted the podcast to be able to be an extension of that.” 

A week before the first anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks, Platt — who is the brother of actor Ben Platt and son of producer Marc Platt — launched his podcast “Being Jewish With Jonah Platt.” He saw this as an opportunity to break down the barriers of what being Jewish means and normalize cultural conversations. 

“We’ve spent the last year being so reactive as a Jewish community to defending against the explosion of anti-Jewish hate and all this stuff going on in Israel,” Platt said. “I wanted to get back to what’s been an original mission of my Jewish advocacy, which is celebrating being Jewish, being proud of being Jewish and being publicly Jewish.”

But Platt reiterated that his position is that of a non-professional Jew. The show serves as a chance for his star-studded guests to share a new side of themselves, learn more about the faith and debate what it means to be Jewish.

“Being Jewish With Jonah Platt” is not just for Jewish listeners, though. In fact Platt acknowledged that much of his own social media following is not Jewish. His mission is to include people from all perspectives and provide a fuller picture of his guests’ personal relationships to Judaism, exploring a wide array of topics including sports, entertainment, politics, food, music, business and more.

“I’ve always felt both inside of the Jewish community and outside we have problems with understanding the full range of Jewish identity. Sometimes there’s exclusion within the community, and there’s a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation outside of the community,” Platt said. “I hope to really illuminate for people, Jews and non-Jews, how diverse and beautiful the connection to being Jewish can be for each specific person.”

Since the show’s launch, Platt has had on actors like Skylar Astin (“Pitch Perfect”) and Jackie Tohn (“Nobody Wants This”) as well as activists like Van Jones and Montana Tucker. One of Platt’s favorite conversations was with his own rabbi of over twenty years, Rabbi David Wolpe. 

Platt teased a couple future guests during a wide-ranging interview with TheWrap, including Gail Simmons of “Top Chef” and journalist Megan McCain. 

How do you think people will be attracted to your show even if they’re not Jewish?

One of the reasons I’m having all these notable guests is that I’m hopeful they’ll bring their own audiences with them. Other than the rabbi, no one else I’m having on is known for their outward facing Jewishness. They are known because they are an actor or they’re a chef who happen to be Jewish and are connected to that identity, and now I’m finally giving them the opportunity to open up about it. I hope a lot of my audience will be people who come with the people that they already admire and will now learn this very candid, deep, new side of their hero that they hadn’t had access to before.

Then the other way is, I do have, I wouldn’t say it’s the majority, but I certainly have a significant portion of my followers online that are non-Jewish, and come to me for insight, because they see so much of the counter narrative to things, and then I’m their one voice of reason on the other side that they can come to as they try to understand.

I’m also making sure to have non-Jewish guests as part of the show, and that’s super intentional, too. I’m bringing in people who may have a connection to the Jewish community, they’re an ally to the community, but that they themselves are not Jewish because I want all allies and well-meaning people to come to the table for this.

What was the most surprising topic that you explored this season?

I asked Kenny Hamilton, who was a Black Jewish guest on the show, did he feel welcomed right away by the Jewish community? And I was surprised that his answer was yes, honestly, because I’ve heard from other Black Jews that a lot of the time they feel othered by the community at times. So I was really happy to hear that that is moving in the right direction, at least.

In terms of me surprising my guest, I had Rabbi Wolpe, who is a very well known, respected figure nationally, as well as my own family’s rabbi. He had once spoken to me about why it’s OK for Jews to get tattoos, but I guess it’s not something he’s really spoken about publicly. So I put him on the spot about it, and I didn’t realize his reaction was gonna be like, “Oh, we’re gonna talk about that, huh?” So that was fun. He was totally game, but I definitely caught him off guard with that.

That’s exciting to have someone who has guided you in your faith be a voice to a greater audience on your show.

It made for a really great conversation because we had such a great rapport from knowing each other personally. I’m a very questioning Jew when it comes to theology and philosophy. Even as a teenager, I was always asking him, “Well, how could this be true? And how is this right?” We’ve always had a nice, intellectual connection there, so it was nice to get to play it out on my show.

Many people are not as open about their faith for fear of judgment or associations made about them. How do you think this podcast will address those issues, and how has it given you a platform to be proud of being Jewish?

One of the reasons I’m making this show is to normalize Jews talking about Jewish stuff. It shouldn’t be weird or uncool or uncomfortable to just talk about who you are with people with whom you share that or not. It’s natural and wonderful to do that. Other minority groups do that a lot, and they excavate who they are and are proud of their identities, and they debate their identities like, no problem, because it’s natural.

I call it sort of like a boogeyman fear. I don’t think a lot of Jews even know what it is concretely they’re afraid of. There’s just this fear that something bad is going to happen if I talk about being Jewish. I want to get rid of that and just keep having notable people, Jewish and non-Jewish, talking about Jewish stuff and show it’s OK. None of us are evaporating into dust. We’re not lame. You don’t have to have a PhD in Jewish studies to have this conversation.

No matter what your faith is it shouldn’t be lame that you have something that brings significance to your life and gives you guiding principles or values.

You mentioned you have always been someone that’s questioned your own religion.

Questioned everything.

Was there a point in time where you stepped away from Judaism?

I’ve never stepped away from it. It’s always been a core piece of my identity. It’s just sort of which part of it is speaking to me has changed and ebbed and flowed over time. It’s like the light’s always on, but sometimes it might be in the background or might be a little bit dimmer. That’s not the case for me now.

There have been times where the religious piece of it, or my relationship with God — I’m not a very spiritual or strong faith person — I struggle with that. I wish I were more because it’s very comforting. Life would be a lot easier if I believed everything was sort of taken care of in a certain way. So I grapple with it constantly. But part of being Jewish is grappling and questioning. It’s in the tradition. We have whole religious texts that are just people disagreeing about interpretations of things, so it’s part of the value system and the culture is to debate and to question and to wonder. It’s something my wife loved when she converted.

That’s something, again, that I want to show with this podcast is, there’s no wrong way to be Jewish. It’s an individual journey for everybody.

In the trailer for your show, you said 0.2% of the world population is Jewish. So what does it mean for you to contribute to the Jewish legacy and expand the reach of Judaism with this show and with your advocacy work?

Any expanding of the Jewish story that I’m doing would be amazing. I haven’t thought about it in those terms.

I’m just doing what feels right to me to be doing in this moment. I honestly feel like I have no choice, it’s like I have to be doing something. I have to be doing this, and if it’s reaching people and making people feel more accepted or safer or less alone, or enlightening people and teaching them something new that they didn’t know…all of that is a win for me, even if it’s 10 people that happens to.

The best case scenario would be that this becomes so popular, to the point where everybody starts feeling comfortable talking about Jewish stuff and being more proud and openly Jewish, and it just feels so normal and celebrated that people don’t have to think twice about it anymore. That would be the dream.

New episodes release weekly on Spotify, Apple and all other audio platforms Tuesdays, and the show also airs on the Jewish Broadcasting Service every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Signal Awards announced their winners Tuesday morning and boasted 170,000 votes from podcast fans in just two short weeks.

There are two types of awards given: The Academy-decided Gold Award, and the public-voted Listeners’ Choice Award — and a number of honorees pulled dual honors. They include Cooper, Questlove, Brown, Noah, Notaro, Kara Swisher, Shannon Sharpe, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin, “The Sporkful,” “The Stoop: Black, Queer and Free” and “Twenty Thousand Hertz.”

Other winners of the Gold Award are Oprah, Katie Couric, “Death, Sex & Money” and “Today, Explained.” Meanwhile, Listeners’ Choice Award winners include “Dark History,” “Prosecuting Donald Trump,” “The Nightingale of Iran,” “The Prof G Pod With Scott Galloway,” “Victory Light With The Kid Mero” and “Who Killed JFK?”

Furthermore, for the second year in a row, Audible has been awarded The Signal Awards’ Company of The Year, having earned the most honors across all categories. A winner’s party for the awards is scheduled for Nov. 12 at Brooklyn’s Public Records. During the festivities, “Where Should We Begin?’s” Esther Perel and “Las Culturistas'” Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang will be honored with the inaugural Special Achievement Awards.

Check out some of the highlighted winners below. Click here to see the complete list.

Interview or Talk Show

Slate’s Death, Sex & Money GOLD
Your Mama’s Kitchen GOLD
Apple News In Conversation GOLD
All There Is with Anderson Cooper GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
Podcrushed
New Lines Magazine Presents: The Lede
Time Sensitive
Marc Summers Unwraps
On Being with Krista Tippett

Best Co-Host Team (Shows)

Handsome Podcast GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
The Need to Know Podcast GOLD
Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
A Field Guide To Gay Animals
Pretendians
Dead Writers
Nightcap
Culture Bites
And That’s Why We Drink
Varnamtown

Best Commute Podcast

Today, Explained GOLD
Netflix is a Daily Joke GOLD
And That’s Why We Drink GOLD LISTENER’S CHOICE
Where does Florida keep its memorabilia?
Hangin’ Out with the Old Fellas
The McKinsey Podcast
Very Special Episodes
TED Talks Daily

Best Co-Host Team (Pop Culture Podcasts)

The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya GOLD
Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect GOLD
Kermode and Mayo’s Take LISTENER’S CHOICE
Newcomers with Lauren Lapkus & Nicole Byer
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Best Host (Current Events)

On with Kara Swisher GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
Next Question with Katie Couric GOLD
The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
Apple News Today
Conspiracy, She Wrote

Best Host

Oprah’s Super Soul GOLD
Apple News Today GOLD
Your Mama’s Kitchen GOLD
Dark History LISTENER’S CHOICE
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
Reality with the King

Limited Series Documentary

Hysterical GOLD
The Youth Development Center GOLD
Backfired: The Vaping Wars GOLD
Grapevine GOLD
The Nightingale of Iran LISTENER’S CHOICE
The Good Thief
Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
After Hotel Rwanda
In The Dark: The Runaway Princesses

Limited Series History

Pack One Bag GOLD
Who Killed JFK? LISTENER’S CHOICE
Inheriting
Road to Rickwood
The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker
Unbiased History of Israel and Palestine

Limited Series & Specials News & Politics

In the Room with Peter Bergen GOLD
Big Take GOLD
The Political Scene GOLD
Prosecuting Donald Trump LISTENER’S CHOICE
Talking Feds
White Picket Fence
Pod Save America
Stay Tuned with Preet

Comedians Shaping Culture

What Now? with Trevor Noah GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
Carefully Reckless with Jess Hilarious
Lovett or Leave It
Seek Treatment with Cat & Pat

Self-Improvement & Self-Help

The Mel Robbins Podcast GOLD
Everyday Better with Leah Smart GOLD
Big Lash Energy – Are You Faking Happy Too? LISTENER’S CHOICE
The Get Back To It Podcast
Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership
A Place of Yes
Real Men Feel
Therapy For Black Girls

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“The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers. Whether or not they are self-serving or true believers in the new fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement,” Maron wrote in a lengthy post shared on his website.

“I don’t do a political show but I am very political. Innately. I keep up. I read too many clickbait pieces. I waver between almost uncontrollable fear and, not really hope, but just fantasizing for an outcome that will guarantee the progress of culture and freedom of mind for everyone,” Maron began his piece.

Despite the fact that his own show is not political, he added, “an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources” is “brewing” in the United States.

“Well, it’s fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us,” Maron continued. “It is shameless and proud. Culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear-mongering and the anti-woke movement has delivered their message for the future. A future that marginalizes almost all voices.”

On Sunday Hinchcliffe told the audience of Trump supporters, “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now? Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”

He also said, “And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.”

Maron’s peers, he said, are driving this “anti-woke flank of the new fascism.”

“Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter,” he said. “Whether they are driven by the idea that what they are fighting for is a free speech issue or whether they are truly morally bankrupt racists doesn’t matter. They are part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea.”

Comedians who host podcasts and invite “shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show” are given credence to fascism, Maron added. “When someone uses their platform for that reason they are facilitating anti-American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy.”

“It may be all self-serving. Greedy influencers and comics and public personalities and certainly tech companies want to align themselves with an unapologetic right-wing movement that has no concerns for regulation or law or justice or decency or democracy to increase their earnings and put them in the seat of power.”

Maron is “trying to remain a realist and live my life and do the things that keep the existential crisis this all seems to bring out of me at bay,” he continued. “Try to realize that you don’t have to annihilate yourself in the face of cultural annihilation. Hold onto who you are and try not to be afraid to live your truth in the midst of an avalanche of toxic bulls–t.”

Hinchcliffe’s performance sparked an outcry from political leaders and Puerto Rican celebrities and celebrities of Puerto Rican descent. Bad Bunny shared a video of Kamala Harris speaking to Puerto Ricans; Jennifer Lopez shared the same video as well as several others. Ricky Martin shared Hinchcliffe’s commentary and wrote, “This is what they think of us.”

Earlier on Sunday, Harris’ running mate Walz and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose family is Puerto Rican, said they were appalled in a video posted to social media. “The thing that is so messed up — that I wish more people understood — is that the things that they do in Puerto Rico are a testing ground for the policies and the horrors that they wish to and that they do unveil in working-class communities across the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“And I need people to understand that when they when you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico floating garbage, know that that’s what they think about you,” she added. “That is, like, that’s just what they think about you. It’s what they think about anyone who makes less money than them.”

AOC said she hopes “everyone in Philadelphia” sees the clip.

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The former reality TV hosts will record their “Joe Rogan Experience” taping in Texas on Friday. Last week, Forbes reported that both Trump and Kamala Harris were close to scheduling appearances on Spotify’s top podcast.

Also this week, Trump is scheduled to hold rallies in North Carolina on Tuesday, Georgia on Wednesday, Arizona on Thursday and Michigan on Friday and Saturday.

While Harris has been on a steady media circuit as the Nov. 5 presidential election draws near, Trump has instead been canceling his planned events. The Republican nominee has recently axed planned appearances with “60 Minutes” and CNBC, as well as a Make America Healthy Again virtual town hall with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.

The news also comes two years after the “Fear Factor” host said he had declined speaking with the “Celebrity Apprentice” star on his podcast multiple times.

“I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time,” Rogan told Lex Friedman in July 2022. “I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

Politico was first to report the news.

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“Hey everyone. November 5th, ElectionMania,” Taker begins in the clip, drawing the pro wrestling WrestleMania comparison. “The choice is yours. You can go with President Trump, Kane and the Undertaker, or you can take Kamala Harris, Dave Bautista and Tim Walz.”

As he mentions the names of Harris, Bautista and Walz, he shows unflattering photos of each, including Bautista wearing an outfit and pearl necklaces mocked by some as effeminate. It also features Harris laughing, which conservatives have repeatedly focused on, as well as Walz making an intense face — notable as Republicans have looked to turn his famed “weird” criticism against the vice presidential candidate.

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“Choose wisely — the nation depends on it,” Undertaker finishes. That’s when Trump himself puts a button on things and adds, “And that should be an easy choice.”

Trump is reportedly taping an appearance on the Undertaker’s podcast, “Six Feet Under with Mark Calaway” — Politico first reported the news, citing an anonymous source. It has yet to be announced when the episode will be released, but if it follows the show’s standard cadence, new episodes usually drop on Mondays.

The trio’s targeting of Bautista comes after the former wrestler took aim at Trump in a viral Jimmy Kimmel segment Wednesday night. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” star relentlessly mocked Trump’s masculinity as he performed athletic feats, impressive at any age but particularly as the actor is now 55 years old. Bautista also more subtly criticized Trump’s treatment of women, tying that and implying that such behavior is also not masculine.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that the good ol’ boy-styled Texas wrestler Calaway has conservative leanings, despite his embrace as a wrestler of the Satanic and the macabre as the Undertaker. Jacobs/Kane has long been an outspoken libertarian, ultimately leaving wrestling to go into politics — he’s served as the Republican mayor of Knox County, Tennessee since 2018.

In WWE storylines, Undertaker and Kane teamed up as the Brothers of Destruction. Kane performed in some particularly perverse storylines that included being horribly burned and necrophilia. They were also both world champions, rising to the top of the pro wrestling industry and remaining beloved by many fans.

Trump himself has his own history in pro wrestling, including facing off against disgraced WWE founder Vince McMahon in a storyline at WrestleMania 23 in 2007, as well as sponsoring WrestleMania 4 and 5 through his Trump Plaza hotel and casino in Atlantic City. The building ceased operations in 2014 and was demolished in 2021.

Fans were quick to imagine what the Undertaker’s interview with Trump could potentially sound like:

What it actually includes remains to be seen.

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On Friday, “The Dan Bongino Show” dropped a live podcast episode with the Republican presidential nominee where the topics ranged from Kamala Harris and Elon Musk, to the disgraced movie mogul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

“Democrats don’t have to be honest, they really don’t have to be honest, because they will never be accused of anything. It’s interesting,” Trump said. “I was so amazed that Harvey Weinstein got schlonged, he got hit as hard as you can get hit. Because he was sort of the king of the woke, right? And yet he got hit and I figured, maybe, he wouldn’t get hit so hard.”

“But boy — you don’t know him well, I don’t know him well, but I watched that and it was amazing. So when they do get hit, they get hit. But that’s the only one I can think of, normally they protect everybody,” he continued. “What they did with Adams, I think, is very suspect.”

Weinstein was found guilty of rape charges back in February 2020, though the New York Court of Appeals threw out that conviction in April. They ruled that Weinstein didn’t get a fair trial since the judge “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts” that potentially swayed the jury as the accusations were not part of the charges against him (a separate conviction in California allows New York authorities to keep him incarcerated while he awaits a new trial).

He has since pleaded not guilty to a new criminal sex act charge for which he was indicted, in addition to being moved from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for emergency heart surgery last month.

Notably, this is not the first time Trump has used the term “schlonged” in this manner. In 2015, he used it in reference to Hillary Clinton losing her primary run in 2008, among other past instances.

Bongino describes himself as “a former Secret Service Agent, former NYPD officer and New York Times bestselling author” who hosts new podcast episodes every weekday where “he tackles the hottest political issues, debunking both liberal and Republican establishment rhetoric,” according to his podcast bio.

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Seinfeld was making headlines all over during the press tour for his Netflix comedy “Unfrosted,” but few gained him the attention that his comments on political correctness being the death of comedy. Now he’s saying “there are two things that I have to say I regret saying and that I have to take back” on Tom Papa’s “Breaking Bread” podcast.

“I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true,” Seinfeld said. “It’s not true. If you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re going to make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is where is the gate and how do I make the gate to get down the hill.”

He continued, ““Does culture change and are their things that I use to say that [I can’t because] people are always moving [the gate]? Yes, but that’s the biggest and easiest target. You can’t say certain words about groups. So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that just to be a comedian…So I don’t think, as I said, the ‘extreme left’ has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I’m taking that back now officially.”

Seinfeld’s original comments came from his lamentations back in April on the New Yorker’s Radio Hour. He claimed that there was supposedly a lack of comedies on TV.

“It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, ‘Cheers’ is on. Oh, ‘MASH’ is on. Oh, ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ is on. ‘All in the Family’ is on,’” Seinfeld said. “You just expected, ‘There’ll be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.’ Well, guess what — where is it?”

He concluded, ““This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

Seinfeld actually said he didn’t say the other thing he regrets saying “but people think I did so it’s just the same” was a comment that he wouldn’t perform at colleges because students were too PC now.

“First of all, I never said it, but if you think I said it, it’s not true,” he said “I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids, performing for them. I was just at the University of Indiana. I do colleges all the time.”

Watch the full episode below:

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“What message does this send to little girls? ‘You can become president, just as long as you don’t age, OK? You can’t age, because as a woman, you have to be both hot and credible.’ Like, f–k off, Vogue,” Kelly said on the latest episode of “The Megyn Kelly Sh0w” on SiriusXM.

Harris’ Vogue feature dropped on Friday, featuring the Democratic presidential candidate in a chocolate brown suit with pearl earrings. While some are praising the cover as stunning, Kelly isn’t the only one who’s pointed out the photo’s hefty editing.

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“First of all, this is as airbrushed as a Joan Rivers appearance on any magazine or TV. Kamala Harris looks 39 instead of 59 here,” Kelly said, calling the edits a “mistake.”

“Just let her have the lines, f–king Vogue. Let her have the lines. The lines are not a problem you have to erase for women who are serious and asking for a serious job,” Kelly continued. “She wants to be in command of our Navy SEALs, so stop with the airbrushing! It’s annoying to me.”

The conservative host wasn’t happy with the actual magazine feature on Harris, either.

“So she does the Vogue thing and the Vogue reporter [Nathan Heller], it’ll make you throw up a little in your mouth,” Kelly asserted. “The headline is: ‘The Candidate For Our Times’… ‘I asked her what her first call would be in the Oval Office. ‘One of my first calls outside of family will be to the team that is working with me on our plan to lower costs with American people.” What does that mean? Who’s on that team? How are they going to do that?”

The former Fox News and NBC host critiqued the idea of doing the women-targeted Vogue at all. “Aren’t we trying to get Black and Latino men? Is this the way? Like, I don’t know, go on GQ, go on Sports Illustrated, go someplace where men go, which is not Vogue. I don’t get it.”

Kelly also called out Vogue editor-in-chief and global editorial director Anna Wintour, labeling the longtime fashion editor as judgy while dissing the theme for the upcoming Met Gala, which will be led entirely by Black men. Those featured include Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and LeBron James. The theme is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” inspired by the book “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”

“This is Anna Wintour, who judges us all by her stupid fashion,” Kelly said. “Honestly, right now she’s launching the Met Gala theme. Guess what it is? ‘Black men and dandyism.’ What is that? Somebody tweeted out, ‘This is great way to get a bunch of out of touch celebrities canceled in one fell swoop.’ True. Anyway, it’s annoying.”

You can watch the full “The Megyn Kelly Show” segment in the video above, including comments from guests Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine.

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