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Bob Odenkirk

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546 total appearances

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

The bro?

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

Manosphere comedy wasβ€”because I think we're starting to put it in the past already, which isβ€”

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

Great.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

But I think the Manosphere comedy was the reactionary comedy movement of the last five years.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And I don't think it has a lot of depth to it, so it's kind of running past...

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

pretty quickly.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

It's dissipating.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

But it was a powerful movement, it seems to me, of the last five years.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

What's next?

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

I don't know.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

But you're not wrong.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

What I call the alternative comedy scene and what I came up in after working at Saturday Night Live and, you know, in this world of Janine Garofalo, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Patton Oswalt, Greg Barrett, David Cross,

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

You know, and then that became and then Marc Maron and that kind of infiltrated comedy slowly over about five years.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And then it kept proliferating.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And then it became podcasts, but then it just became all of comedy.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And I think the format of podcasts, um, really lent itself to a lot of what we were doing, which was more, uh, impromptu, uh, genuine personal, uh, sharing.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

And then now it's everywhere.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

Oh, well, it's definitely about low-hanging fruit, big time.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

It's like literally on the ground.

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Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce

It's fruit that's on the ground rotting.