Adam Brody calls out anti-woke celebrities: 'There are so much bigger fish to fry'

Seth Cohen doesn't want to hear about cancel culture.

Adam Brody has a bone to pick with celebrities railing against wokeness.

On the latest episode of Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's Armchair Expert podcast, the Nobody Wants This and The O.C. star acknowledged that he might "fall really short in any activism or changing the world" but said he has an argument against anti-wokeism.

"Like, people that are in a moral panic about cancel culture?" Shepard asked.

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"Yes," replied Brody, who said he identifies more with liberal ideology and policies. "Of course there's excesses," he continued. "There's excesses on our sides in any large movement. But if that's your North Star, as a comedian, as an artist, as a political commentator, then you've f---ing lost the plot. More good has been done than bad. It's tangible to me."

Being on set now, as opposed to 10 or five years ago, Brody said, is "so different and so much more positive to me. I think, for sure, people have been too harshly punished. We're figuring it out. But comedians who are like, 'This is my thing. This is why I'm going to vote this way. This is my main subject.' I think there are so much bigger fish to fry, and I find it suspect."

Brody later clarified that he supports differing opinions and open dialogue. "We can have a talk as long as we're agreeing that global warming is real and we're going to do something about it. Let's talk about how to make society a better place."

It's an apt message as Brody promotes his upcoming rom-com series Nobody Wants This, in which he stars opposite Shepard's wife, actress Kristen Bell. From creator Erin Foster, the semiautobiographical Netflix show tells the unexpected love story of an agnostic sex podcaster (Bell) and an unconventional rabbi (Brody).

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Brody, who is Jewish but hasn't practiced much throughout his life, recently told Entertainment Weekly that he was drawn to the series' contemporary approach to religion. "When I read the part and the character," he said, "I first thought, 'Oh, okay, so the point is he's so modern, casual, and not preachy at all — he just happens to be a rabbi, and he really is just a modern L.A. guy.'"

He also now appreciates the importance of ritual. "So often it was a religion without a nation, or a persecuted minority, or a broken-up group, so it's like keeping this thing alive and tracing it back and making sure that we're all facing this direction at the same time," Brody said. "We can't always be in a temple, but we can all do Shabbat, you know what I mean? Everywhere you are, you can kind of make your home your temple."

Nobody Wants This premieres Sept. 26. Watch Brody on Armchair Expert above.

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