Daily Inspiration Quote by Timothy Bottoms

Bottoms isn’t just reminiscing; he’s signaling what kind of “fun” Hollywood is allowed to publicly admit. That’s My Bush was a post-9/11 artifact with a strange shelf life: a broad, knowingly dumb sitcom built around parodying George W. Bush, arriving right as satire suddenly felt risky, even unpatriotic. Calling it “a hoot” is disarming on purpose. It recasts political lampooning as pure play, like a backstage prank that accidentally made it to air.

The line “more fun than one should be allowed to have” does two jobs at once. On the surface, it’s an actor’s giddy brag about a great gig: the looseness of Comedy Central, the freedom of a cartoonish premise, the joy of being in on a joke that doesn’t have to chase prestige. Underneath, it’s a sly admission that the show’s pleasure came from transgression. The “should” implies an invisible referee: networks, political sensitivity, the post-crisis demand for seriousness, maybe even an industry that rewards “important” work more than gleeful misbehavior.

Bottoms also frames his Comedy Central work as a special permission slip, separate from the rest of his career. He’s been part of earnest American storytelling; here, he’s celebrating the opposite: the liberating crackle of satire that knows it’s disposable and leans into it. The quote lands because it treats comedy not as craft talk, but as a brief suspension of adult rules - and hints that, culturally, we’re always trying to reimpose them.