The experience playing that character must have been a blast for Rob Benedict. Like, he shows up for three seasons (and change), of a fifteen season show, each time playing a different version of the same character, each with a completely different personality, but also...not
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When we enjoy watching a clown we're enjoying that feeling of superiority -- someone capering and japing to coax laughs from us and us dispensing them generously like a monarch throwing coins A clown is reassuring as he is irritating, because that's how it feels to be needed
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Just as a hero is intimidating and arouses envy and jealousy even as he commands admiration -- it's at once a relief and yet an insult to *not* be needed
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(I know it's gauche to say this on twitter but this has been a very good thread and I've really enjoyed and appreciated all your explanations and it is only the rising of the curséd sun that drives me to abandon it for sleep. Everyone who got involved in this is great)
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