Judd Apatow
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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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, some joke about how Richard Pryor's grandmother ran a brothel.
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 early eighties, uh,
People just fought.
They like really like fought.
People weren't aware that you should keep it away from the kids.
Yeah, too much involvement.
Trench warfare and you were in the middle of it.
Too much of us knowing what was going on.
And we had really thin walls.
I remember I would hear them arguing.