Humor & Life Quote by Chris Kattan

Kattan’s line lands because it’s nakedly, almost aggressively uncomplicated: desire stripped of nuance, delivered with the blunt cheer of someone who thinks sincerity is a punchline. “I wish I was dating” is the classic celebrity-sidewalk fantasy, but the kicker is the sweeping add-on: “Any of them.” The joke isn’t just lust; it’s the laziness of the lust, the way attraction gets treated like a bulk commodity when the women are framed as an exotic ensemble rather than distinct people.

The specific intent reads as quick-and-easy comedy: signal heterosexual appetite, flatter the film’s cast, and get a laugh off the exaggerated openness. Kattan’s comedic persona often leans into eager, socially clumsy energy; this fits that register, pitching himself as the harmless goof who can’t help oversharing. The line also plays like a calculated “safe” compliment: you can’t be accused of picking favorites, and you can’t be checked on details because you’ve avoided them.

The subtext, though, is where it gets telling. “The ladies in ‘Bollywood Hero’” collapses identity into category, and “gorgeous” does all the work that characterization or curiosity might have done. It mirrors a broader American media habit of consuming “Bollywood” as vibe: color, dance, beauty, a generalized otherness that’s exciting precisely because it’s non-specific.

Context matters: a mid-2000s moment when cross-cultural references were trending in Hollywood, often with a wink that doubled as a blind spot. The line is funny in its bluntness, but it also inadvertently documents how easily appreciation slides into objectification when the punchline is “I’d take any.”