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Daily Inspiration Quote by Bob Saget

"It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network TV, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too"

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Saget is pulling back the curtain on a persona that never quite fit the packaging. The repetition of "JOB" isn’t just emphasis; it’s a defensive little drumbeat, a way of insisting that America’s wholesome dad-stand-in was, at least on camera, a paid employee performing a narrow corporate version of himself. He’s not confessing hypocrisy so much as describing an industry that treats identity like a costume you clock in to wear.

The punch of name-checking "the Aristocrats" lands because it’s the ur-text of transgressive comedy: a filthy, insider rite that exists almost to dare censorship to flinch. By placing it at "8 o'clock at night on network tv", he sketches a bright, old-school border between acceptable family entertainment and the comedy that thrives precisely because it’s prohibited. The quick tag, "it would be funny though", is classic Saget: mischievous, almost adolescent, undercutting the supposed sanctity of broadcast standards while admitting he knows exactly why the gate is locked.

Then comes the real subtext: "those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too". It’s a bid for complexity in a culture that flattens performers into one brand. Saget is rejecting the idea that clean equals fake and dirty equals authentic. He’s arguing for range, and for the right to be contradictory: the guy who can host a sanitized home-video countdown and still laugh hardest at the joke that could never air there.

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Saget, Bob. (2026, February 16). It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network TV, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-a-job-the-video-show-was-a-job-you-dont-139515/

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Saget, Bob. "It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network TV, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-a-job-the-video-show-was-a-job-you-dont-139515/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network TV, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-was-a-job-the-video-show-was-a-job-you-dont-139515/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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Bob Saget (born May 17, 1956) is a Actor from USA.

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