Happiness Quote by Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders is allergic to the performance of politeness, and she’s making a joke out of that allergy while refusing to hide it. The line hinges on a delicious reversal: the comedian - a person whose job is to command attention - fantasizes about being invisible. “Fly on the wall” is the classic voyeur’s wish, but Saunders spikes it with the blunt admission that what she’s dodging isn’t the crowd; it’s the smiling. Small talk, forced warmth, the social tax of being “on.” Her comic persona has always treated niceness as a kind of coercion, and here she frames it as labor she never agreed to do.

The waitress detail is the sharpest twist. Waitressing is actual service work, yet she imagines it as freer than celebrity mingling. Why? Because it comes with a script and a task. You can move, observe, and even judge, all under the cover of usefulness. “Just gone round and stared at people” is funny because it’s impolite to the point of absurdity, but it’s also an honest description of what comics do: they watch, clock the micro-rituals, harvest the awkwardness.

Contextually, it reads like a glimpse behind a public event - awards, parties, the kind of room where everyone is networking with their teeth showing. Saunders punctures that sheen. Her intent isn’t to confess shyness; it’s to insist that the real comedy is in the room, not in the performance of being delighted to be there.