Marriage Quote by Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair doesn’t just reject marriage here; she skewers the cultural performance around it. “I don’t do marriage” lands like a lifestyle choice delivered with the finality of a punchline, the phrasing deliberately casual and dismissive, as if matrimony is an extracurricular she’s opted out of. That breezy tone is the intent: she’s draining marriage of its presumed seriousness, refusing to grant it automatic gravitas.

“Incredibly naff” is doing the heavy lifting. It’s not “wrong” or “oppressive” or any of the grand moral indictments you might expect in modern critiques. It’s tasteless. Embarrassing. Slightly cheap. The word choice is a class-coded needle: “naff” belongs to a distinctly British register of social judgment, a way of saying, I can spot the insecurity underneath the sparkle. Eclair, a comedian who built a career on puncturing pretension, frames the institution less as romance than as a consumer spectacle with a dress code.

Then she clinches it with “vulgar displays of ostentation,” a phrase that sounds almost overdressed itself, like she’s parodying the snootiness she’s invoking. That’s the sly subtext: she’s both making a genuine aesthetic objection and lampooning the language of taste that polices other people’s joy. The joke carries a double edge. Weddings become a stage for status, but disdain can be its own status play, too. Eclair’s comedy thrives in that tension: rejecting the script while reminding you that every rejection is also a performance.