Bob Odenkirk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
is the most profound expression of human existence there is.
Really?
I don't think any Kubrick movie or Freudian analysis or... Shakespeare?
Or Shakespeare says as much about humanity
how humans operate and what is the ultimate problem with us as a species than sketch comedy.
And I wish it was not true.
I wish the drama, grand drama, I wish that we were worthy
of being taken apart and observed in subtle and complex ways.
But I don't think so.
I think that ultimately there is nothing more profound about people than you can say in a sketch.
They're fucking idiots.
People are sadly limited, so limited that you can...
You can define them and you can share everything that's important about them in four minutes.
Yeah.
You want me to repudiate that statement?
I wondered if you were being sarcastic when you wrote that because it struck me as bleak.
Pretty bleak.
Too sad.
I don't know what to say, man.
Pretty much do think that's true, but I do think that