Bob Odenkirk
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is something I feel strongly about,
And I'm never going to get everyone to agree.
I don't.
No, I think he'd say I'm performing.
I really do.
I mean, we should ask him.
But...
You know, my friend David Cross gets on stage and he says crazy stuff.
And he doesn't believe everything he says.
He just knows it's a point of view that is funny to express and that to some extent people need to hear or be surprised by to get some perspective on their own point of view.
And yeah, so I'm just thinking everybody has to understand what that line is.
It got blurred in a way that I think was very damaging to what we can do as artists.
We need to be able to do and say crazy shit.
But, and I'm also saying that it goes two ways.
The audience has to chill out and watch it as a performance.
But the performer, if they really have something to say, should not be doing it there.
It's not that they shouldn't do it there.
It's that if they really want people to understand it directly, they should get off that comedy stage and say it somewhere else where it's me talking, genuinely me, and not for laughs, not for the sake of laughs.
God, I'm sorry to be a bummer.
Yeah.