Humor & Life Quote by Kevin McDonald

Wanting “the part of the Bus Driver” is funny because it sounds like a nothing role, the kind of walk-on you barely notice until you need someone to deadpan a line and hit a mark. Kevin McDonald, as a comedian steeped in sketch logic, knows that “small” characters are often where the real leverage is. Bus drivers sit at a perfect comedic intersection: they’re public-facing, mildly authoritative, trapped in a routine, and forced to absorb the chaos of strangers. In sketch comedy, that’s a pressure cooker. Put the wrong person on the bus and suddenly the whole city’s dysfunction has a driver’s-seat viewpoint.

The quote’s clumsy syntax (“I would also would have liked”) adds an accidental layer: it reads like someone politely lobbying for scraps after the flashy roles are taken. That awkwardness is the subtext. It’s a comic’s familiar hunger to be inside the scene, even if it’s on the margins, because the margins are often where you can steal the show. A bus driver doesn’t need a monologue; a look, a sigh, a single rule enforced too rigidly can become the punchline.

Contextually, it feels like backstage talk: auditions, casting, or a retrospective interview about who played what. The intent isn’t grandeur; it’s a sly endorsement of character acting and an inside joke about comedy careers. Everyone wants to be the lead until they realize the bus driver gets to decide where the story stops.