College Quote by Stephen Hillenburg

When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can't anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves…

— Stephen Hillenburg

What you don't think when you sit down to write a show is, 'How can I be shocking?' That question isn't interesting, it's all…

— Jesse Armstrong

I think the source of SpongeBob's humour is classic, and that's always appealing.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they…

— Jim Norton

A sponge is a funny animal to center a show on. At first, I drew a few natural sponges - amorphous shapes, blobs -…

— Stephen Hillenburg

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

— John Waters

The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a…

— Stephen Hillenburg

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about…

— Julia Davis

I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life…

— Ethan Slater

I never really imagined a show about a sponge going past our first season. I thought maybe we'd have a cult following, and we'd…

— Stephen Hillenburg

I feel that I owe a lot to SpongeBob and all Bikini Bottom for helping me figure out what I thought was funny and…

— David Dobrik