On this week's very special episode of Seinfeld, Jerry confused the mock beheading of a United States President with a mere stand-up joke that fell flat. 

Though his sitcom Seinfeld ended close to 20 years ago, the life of the actual Seinfeld has been playing out lately in ways that resemble his TV counterpart. Earlier this week he repeatedly snubbed pop singer Kesha for a hug during a red carpet interview, not knowing who she is. Now he says that purported comedienne Kathy Griffin holding up President Trump's fake severed head was just a "bad joke."

Where's Elaine to gasp a "Get Out!!!" when you need her? 

"Yes, it was a bad joke. Every comedian tells bad jokes," he told People magazine on Tuesday. "We all do it. That’s how we find the good jokes. So someone told a bad joke — so what, I don’t understand the big deal."

No Google search currently yields a time when Jerry Seinfeld held up a President's fake severed head, in imitation of ISIS after slaughtering a helpless captive, just for laughs.

Seinfeld joins a small but well-known list of celebrities that have come out in defense of Griffin's career-ending stunt. Both Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey gave impassioned defenses of her, with Baldwin saying of her critics "F–ck them all" and Carrey saying Griffin committed the cardinal sin of being the only one in the room who dared to say what everyone was thinking. Somehow we feel they wouldn't be so quick to forgive if a conservative comedian -- say, Dennis Miller -- held up Barack Obama's fake severed head.

Compared to those two excuses, Seinfeld's obliviousness seems rather tame.