canvases, and once we were all familiar with. >> buehler, buehler. >> singled from school, this sneaky stuff we like to pull off . >> life goes by pretty fast. if you do not stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. >> john was obsessed with the middle american outlook on life. there is no clearer expression of john's affection for what is a flawed society, but he loves it. >> that is it. i will be right outside those doors. the next time i have to come in here, i am cracking skulls. >> he celebrated the normalcy in all of us. he made it vigor, he made the attention to that, he made eyeballs okay. >> we are all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it, that is all. >> because hughes cracked the code with the teen audience, others that followed realized, oh, you do not have to talk down to them, you can talk
that same week. i got my period. which is early. any stage of life. if you tell the story, honestly, it can be funny. that's what people connect with. everybody has been 12 years old. everybody knows what that feels like. typical i was typical of a of a i guess. a young, budding future pervert. i have been sitting around when you was young man, just sitting in class and your heart for nothing. would be just sitting there in your head. what's going on in there? and that's when your teacher said mr murphy won't come work out this problem on the board. we're just trying to figure out how to be humans and your body's changing and you're becoming aware of how it's changing. and you know, sex is just this crazy, mysterious thing. well we'll just tell your
mother that we ate it all. let's face it all of these unpleasant subjects. one way of dealing with them is humor. i can't believe this. they forgot my birthday. john used captured many different eras of life. but he was one of the great storytellers about being a high schools tube. he took his teenage characters incredibly seriously, all of them, but 16 candles was a revelation to me as a kid because i thought, oh i'm anthony michael hall. that's who i am. what it's like to be 15 40. you know, freshman? i mean, you know, he's he's anxious to be at the senior parties anxious to be with this girl. you know that guy who's normally made fun of another movies is a hero in this movie
when you're driving that anyone who's driving slower than you is an idiot? and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac. you see a million things a day in your life, and they all go on the back burner of your six burner wolf. ridiculously priced mind comedian comes out and brings it to the front burner. don't like other people's showers. there's always a problem with temperature adjustment. there's always a little hair stuck on the wall. and you want to get rid of it. but you don't want to touch it. i don't know how it got up that high in the first place. real life is funny because it's relatable period. that's it, and if people are at home, watching something relatable that will make them laugh because they go. oh, that happened to me, too. when you're a kid, and you'd go on vacation, you'd be like, why is dad always in a bad mood? now i understand. no is this grandma
family comedies. dude now it seems like the family comedies they want our how strange can this family possibly be expected to climb back on top of kitty and do my thing again? i mean, this family runs into problems. it's all let's have job away out of it with you more variety and families represented on television today because it's represented in real life. okay, you're he's our son. and my grandson. i'm his daughter. so you're his uncle. i have to believe that for kids of today seeing that families can come in all kinds of weird permutations has to be pretty great. what the hell is that? head andre do it while we were gone. we're floating above her always there to protect her. okay, well, that's reassuring. right lily? yes we tore you away from everything you know, but don't worry. things are normal here. your fathers are floating ferries such as modern family or will and grace before that really sped up the conversation about gay marriage and people's
on it. mind your own business. how about that? we all think that ship, but larry's just points it out. you know, it's great. it's just material, but. but really, look at these pants pants. bunch of never seen a bunch of like this in my life is like a five inch bunch up i got here. herb your enthusiasm is brilliant. larry took the essence of himself of larry david. i mean, it's not exactly larry, but it's pretty close. and when you get close to the bone, the audience can somehow feel that that's real left the speakerphone. please hold on. you're off the speaker phone. what's the matter with you? i thought i was having a private conversation. i didn't know anybody else was in your car with curb larry gets to be the full completion of himself. there was the person i'd like to be, but social mores prevent me from being that way all the time . i a call you back. what what
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well, well, well, what a baby. what's great about comedy is comedy can't exist unless it's true. you don't laugh unless you know there's an inherent truth to it. god keep forgetting what a freak show this family is until somebody new comes in and looks at us like that. we all are human and fallible and we're crazy and we have foibles and we're all in it together. there's nothing more interesting than the foolishness of the human condition. it takes the comedian to find the moment that helps people laugh at themselves . if you're lucky in life, you will have seen it. done it eight in it, you know? all of it. and now you can relive it through storytelling and from somebody's point of view all over again. life is not that complicated. you get up, you go to work. eat three meals. you take one good back to bed. what's the mystery?
you've done it. there is so much comedy in the little details of life. it's just taking a magnifying glass and throwing it out to the audience. that's sort of my job to think about stuff that a lot of us are too busy for most of the time. little things that occur to us. we have universal ground. you know, whatever. did you ever belch and almost puke? we think that we're alone and then a comedian steps on stage and said, have you ever noticed boom? it explodes. but in that moment we all connect, which is an amazing charge. really it's kind of an adrenaline rush to connect on that kind of level. that we have to fight. these battles were all alone in the bathroom alone. whatever goes wrong, you have to handle it. never flush the toilet in a big party and the water starts coming up. this is the most frightening moment in the life of a human being. it's an illumination on something that was right in front of you.
feed it closed captioning brought to you by investing help call 1 807 100020 invention idea but don't know what to do. next call invent help today they can help you get started with your idea. call now. 807 100020. people, stupid. this is the others ever noticed. is it yourself? does anybody else hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? but then if that was true, you wouldn't be a proctologist to be an astronaut. there's so many things that are distasteful in life and stupid. and there are these rules that everybody has to follow. it's tedious, so they deserve lampooning. awful morning like i get it this morning, i put my maxi pad on adhesive side up. have, um, on