If comedians can’t take a politically incorrect joke, who can?

Jerry Seinfeld’s takedown of the political correctness of today’s youth should give us all pause for thought. In an interview on US radio, the sitcom and stand-up star said that college campuses have become a no-go area for comedians. ‘I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me, “Don’t go near colleges. They’re so PC”’ he said, before launching into a story about the time his 14-year-old daughter accused his wife of being ‘sexist’ for suggesting that she may soon want to start seeing boys. ‘They just want to use these words. That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice. They don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.’

Of course, this is nothing we haven’t heard before. Young people’s inability to hear a risqué punchline without launching a Change.org petition has raised the ire of plenty of other comedians recently. In an interview with Vulture magazine last year, Chris Rock said twentysomethings are now so touchy that comics ‘can’t even be offensive on [their] way to being inoffensive’.