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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

This is something I feel strongly about,

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

And I'm never going to get everyone to agree.

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

I don't.

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

No, I think he'd say I'm performing.

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

I really do.

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

I mean, we should ask him.

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

But...

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

You know, my friend David Cross gets on stage and he says crazy stuff.

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

And he doesn't believe everything he says.

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

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.

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

And yeah, so I'm just thinking everybody has to understand what that line is.

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

It got blurred in a way that I think was very damaging to what we can do as artists.

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

We need to be able to do and say crazy shit.

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

But, and I'm also saying that it goes two ways.

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

The audience has to chill out and watch it as a performance.

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

But the performer, if they really have something to say, should not be doing it there.

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

It's not that they shouldn't do it there.

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

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.

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

God, I'm sorry to be a bummer.

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

Yeah.