Justice & Law Quote by Jennifer Saunders

Saunders is skewering the way outrage turns into wallpaper. The “first police scary video thing” lands like a deliberately clumsy phrase, the kind you use when you’re mocking a genre you refuse to dignify. She’s not describing journalism; she’s describing content: a jump-scare product with sirens and shaky footage, packaged for the couch. The punchline isn’t that the videos exist, it’s the speed with which novelty becomes ambience.

The quote’s real engine is the shift from communal astonishment to numbed ubiquity. “Come and look, come and look” mimics that early, gossipy thrill of shared discovery: a friend summoning you to the screen like it’s a party trick. Saunders then flips it: “now it’s on every channel,” a bleak little line that turns a moment of curiosity into an industrial pipeline. What used to feel exceptional is now a default programming block, endlessly rerun, endlessly escalated.

There’s also a sly indictment of how fear is monetized. “Police scary” isn’t just about crime; it’s about a media ecosystem that sells safety through spectacle, turning policing into entertainment and citizens into an audience trained to equate public life with threat. Saunders, a comedian, doesn’t sermonize; she undercuts. By reducing the phenomenon to a “video thing,” she exposes the cynicism: the culture didn’t get more dangerous so much as it got more broadcastable. The joke carries a warning: saturation doesn’t inform us, it anesthetizes us.