Silent Bob is a character in the movies Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, who is played by those movies' film maker Kevin Smith. Silent Bob is usually, true to his name, the quieter partner of the ultra-crude Jay; however, towards the end of each of the movies in the (increasingly misnamed) New Jersey Trilogy, he breaks his silence with astute insight into the problems of the main character(s) in the movie.