Daily Inspiration Quote by Bob Saget

Saget is doing two things at once here: defending a nasty little corner of comedy and explaining why it suddenly felt timely. By calling it “violent comedy,” he frames shock not as random provocation but as a genre with rules: the laugh comes from impact, from escalation, from watching a taboo get kicked down the stairs and then asked to do it again. It’s also a quiet bit of audience-management. If you label the act “violent,” you preempt the moral panic by admitting the harm upfront, then repositioning it as craft.

The tell is the second sentence: “what will a family do out of desperation.” That’s Saget trying to smuggle empathy into a joke whose entire engine is disgust. The Aristocrats works because it uses the most culturally protected unit - the family - and forces it to perform the least defensible material imaginable, then has the nerve to package it as showbiz polish. The subtext is recession-era logic applied to taste: when the market gets tight, everyone gets ugly, and the ugliest version becomes the most “honest.”

Context matters: Saget’s own persona had long been a split-screen, the wholesome TV dad who moonlighted as a filthy stand-up. So when he talks about “people want what the movie was about,” he’s also talking about permission. Post-9/11 and amid cultural anxiety, the appetite for transgression isn’t just juvenile; it’s a pressure valve. The laughter lands because it’s not innocence getting corrupted. It’s desperation getting named, and then sold as entertainment.