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"I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it"

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Exasperation is doing the work here: not as a lapse in manners, but as a moral stance. Chris Morris is refusing the familiar ritual where comedians are made to audition for the right to offend, then apologize for having done it too well. "I just feel tired now" frames outrage as a loop, not a revelation - the same predictable shock, the same performance of alarm. He positions himself less as provocateur than as someone bored by the audience’s demand to be managed.

The line’s muscle is its blunt consumer logic: "If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it". Morris collapses a supposedly high-minded debate about harm, decency, and public taste into a simple choice architecture. That’s the subtextual jab. Cultural gatekeepers want the status of being guardians of the commons while still treating art like a product they can return for store credit. Morris flips it: you are not an unwilling participant in an ambush; you are a viewer with agency. Opt out.

Contextually, it reads like a defense forged in the era of broadcast moral panic, when satire - especially Morris’s brand, which weaponizes realism and deadpan - gets treated as contamination rather than critique. The profanity is strategic: "bloody" punctures polite discourse and signals class-coded impatience with pearl-clutching. The intent isn’t to dodge responsibility so much as to deny critics the power to set the terms. He’s not arguing that shock is harmless; he’s arguing that shock is often the point, and the scandal is that people keep pretending it’s accidental.

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Morris, Chris. (2026, January 17). I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-feel-tired-now-if-people-are-shocked-if-40754/

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Morris, Chris. "I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-feel-tired-now-if-people-are-shocked-if-40754/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I just feel tired now if people are shocked. If it's not for you, just don't bloody watch it." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-just-feel-tired-now-if-people-are-shocked-if-40754/. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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Chris Morris (born September 5, 1965) is a Critic from United Kingdom.

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