Jerry Seinfeld Does A Stunning About-Face On An Issue Near And Dear To Him

Jerry Seinfeld walked back his claim that the political correctness of the “ extreme left ” ruined comedy ― and he did it with a skiing metaphor. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

In an interview on the “Breaking Bread with Tom Papa” podcast released Tuesday on YouTube, the iconic funnyman got serious about his change of heart. (Watch the video below.)

“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 Lindsey Vonn, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain. She’s gonna 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? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to?”

Perhaps the sitcom legend was motivated in part by backlash or former “Seinfeld” co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus disputing the assertion .

But whatever it was, he kept the retraction coming after saying in April that the demise of humor “is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people.”

“So does culture change, and are there things I used to say that I can’t say that everybody’s always moving [the gate]? Yeah, but that’s the biggest, easiest target,” Seinfeld said on the podcast. “You can’t say certain words ... about groups. So what? The accuracy of your observation has to be 100 times finer than that to just be a comedian. … So I don’t think, as I said, the ‘extreme left’ has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy.”

Seinfeld’s recent project, a comically dramatized history of the Pop-Tart called “Unfrosted,” earned some crummy reviews .

Further proof that even a comedy legend’s judgment isn’t infallible.

Fast-forward to 26:30 for Seinfeld’s reversal: