Bob Odenkirk

If you don't like that, and you wanna tell an audience something genuine, earnest, and honest, then get off that stage, because that stage is only a show.

It is not real, and it is not genuine, and it is not direct, no matter how much you act like it is.

And so I just think we have to – I wish everyone saw it that way.

Then if you know that, if you know that when you watch anyone do a play or any kind of performance, then you can safely watch almost anything.

And talk about it afterwards and let it – whatever that does for you, whether it's cathartic and lets that voice out of your head or whether you can point to that voice now and argue about it, whatever that is.

It can offer – it can have a lot of benefits.

But the problem we got into there was –

Comedians – and maybe the alt-comedy scene led us to it with a degree of self-revelation that was being done, a sense that whatever's said on that stage is incredibly genuine and a direct –

Look, thing is, the internet has hurt us.

I'm going to ramble here for a second.

Keep going.

One of the reasons the internet has hurt is you can tape somebody at 2 a.m.

in a comedy club and put them on TV, and you're watching them at 10 a.m.

at your breakfast table.

That's not right, because that thing was said at 2 a.m.

in New York with a bunch of drunk, rowdy people after you talked for 45 minutes already.

So whatever.

Did I help clarify anything?

At some point, you have to give people a place to speak honestly and directly, like you and I are doing right here.

You know, this is not me doing a character, and I don't, I think it, I don't know, I don't know how to delineate the line, but there has to be a line.