Judd Apatow

You never like said, how are you doing?

And in fact, the only thing that really helped me was like there was a book in the house called Growing Up Divorced.

And I looked at a couple of pages of it once and it like explained some of the dynamics of what this conflict was about in a way I could understand.

And my dad goes, yeah, I left that book out for you.

And I went, what?

He's like, yeah, I left it on the coffee table.

He said, you left the book.

That's how you communicated with me?

And I said, what are you talking about?

He's like, it worked.

And I went, but you never asked me if I read it.

You didn't know I read it.

And so that was the 70s in a nutshell in terms of communication, that even very nice people with the best of intentions, they didn't know from their families how to tune into each other.

And so as a little kid, it just made me confused most of all.

And I think part of that led to,

Being fascinated by people like George Carlin or Mel Brooks who broke down society and broke down how families work and religion works and poked holes in things and challenged things.

And so I think that was part of the obsession.

They were so helpful and so supportive.

And they were the reason why I was into it because my dad had a big interest in comedy.

And so the house was filled with Lenny Bruce records and Bill Cosby records and Woody Allen records.