Jerry Seinfeld bruised some funny bones this week, with a tweet playing off of the Black Lives Matters movement.
The former “Seinfeld” comedian is catching heat for a tweet posted Thursday morning, promoting his series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
“New!” the comedian wrote. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. Lewis Black. Black’s life matters.”
The last line was a riff on the Black Lives Matter movement, which gained popularity amid a rash of police violence toward African Americans.
The joke didn’t go over well with some, who registered their displeasure in replies to the tweet.
“This is worse than the finale of ‘Seinfeld’ which I still don’t like,” wrote one detractor, who also replied, “Who’s writing your tweets now? The Breitbart humor section staff?”
Another unsatisfied customer simply wrote, “What the f— Jerry.”