Humor & Life Quote by Jennifer Saunders

Neediness is Saunders' secret engine for comedy: the idea that closeness is less a warm embrace than a mutual life raft. "They keep it so tight" lands like a behind-the-scenes explanation for those duos and friend-pairs that read as inseparable, even symbiotic, because the outside world has already voted them off the island. The line drags intimacy down from the pedestal and pins it to something more awkward and recognizably human: social scarcity.

The bite is in the blunt causal chain: no one liked them, therefore they cling, therefore they survive. Saunders doesn't romanticize loyalty; she diagnoses it. That word "exist" does heavy lifting, expanding the stakes from companionship to identity. It's not just that they prefer each other; it's that their sense of being tolerable, legible, even real depends on an internal audience of one.

Then she twists the knife with "They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else". The repetition is comic, but it's also ethical. Support isn't aspirational self-help here; it's complicity with the mess. The subtext is that for certain people - the too much, the too loud, the socially unapproved - acceptance doesn't arrive as improvement. It arrives as an agreement not to leave.

As a comedian, Saunders is speaking from a tradition (and a career) built on abrasive affection: relationships that look toxic from a distance but, up close, function as survival strategies. The intent isn't cynicism for its own sake; it's a defense of the unglamorous bonds that keep misfits upright.