Jerry Seinfeld walked back his comments about the “extreme left” killing comedy this week, saying he regrets his choice of words because “it’s not true.” “I said that the ‘extreme left’ has suppressed the art of comedy. I did say that. That’s not true,” Seinfeld said on Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast.

Likening the job of a comedian to that of a “champion skier,” Seinfeld says that society “can put the gate anywhere on the mountain and [comedians are] going to make the gate” because if you don’t, “you’re out of the game.” Perhaps it’s never too late to learn that if the audience isn’t laughing, maybe the joke is the problem, not the audience.

In this exclusive clip from a new podcast interview, Jerry Seinfeld explains why he “regrets” taking aim at progressives.