Why Comedies Suck Now - Judd Apatow - #1033

You said your parents divorce bought your house and cars. That's true. How so? It's funny because when I first started doing stand-up, I remember writing in a notebook, and this was years, actually years before I ever got on stage, you know, some joke about how Richard Pryor's like grandmother ran a brothel. Like he grew up in a brothel.

and all I had to work with to be a comedian was my parents getting divorced. Like it wasn't enough to be a genius. It was just enough damage to get you in the game that I wished my grandmother ran a brothel and then maybe I would be more messed up. You wanted more trauma. I needed more trauma.

But it was enough. It certainly was enough. But back then when people got divorced in the in the early 80s, uh people just you know, fought. They like really like fought.

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