it. john was obsessed with sort of the middle american outlook on life. there s no clearer expression of john s affection for what is a flawed society, but he loves it. all right, that s it. i m going to be right outside those doors. the next time i have to come in here, i m cracking skulls. he celebrated the normalcy in all of us. he made it bigger. he made detention an event. he made oddballs okay. we re all pretty bizarre. some of us are just better at hiding it, that s all. oh, god. because hughes cracked the code with the teen audience, others that followed realized oh, you don t have to talk down to them, you can talk up to them or talk right at their level. man, i hate high school. on freaks and geeks what was important to everybody at the show was that it was realistic. oh, my god. come on, guys, let s go. somebody please tell me what s supposed to be fun about this?
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, eaten it, [ bleep ] it, 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, you eat three meals, you take one good [ bleep ] and you go back to bed. what s the [ bleep ] mystery? when you see these things, do you keep track of them? i m interested. i do. write them down on a small pad. once i lost a pad and it was it was the worst experience of my life. why? and you can never get them back, because these incidents where you get the thoughts, it s very specific. it never happens again, it only happens that one time. all those ideas, gone. they re still gone.
wouldn t it make more sense the other way around? if that was true, you wouldn t be a proctologist, you could be an astronaut. so many things distasteful in life and stupid and there are these rules that everybody has to follow. it s tedious. so they deserve lampooning. this was an awful morning. i get up this morning and put maxi pad on adhesive side up. oh, come on, 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. well, 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? like, did you ever belch and almost puke? we think that we re alone and then a comedian steps on stage and says, have you every
wave of stuff that s being thrown at us all the time. the guy said this was their best-selling thing, by far, okay? i m just trying to improve our sex lives. okay, here s an idea. how about you stop rubbing your eye every time you shove your junk in me? what? yeah. you re always like it s distracting. now we re in this weird world where there s demand that people take chances. no one wants generic stuff anymore. mom, dad, we ve got something we d like to tell you talk to you about. lovely news. i think will make you very happy, and that s we re getting married. congratulations. thank you. i thought you were going to tell us you were pregnant there for a minute. and i m pregnant. that s also part of this. the more realistic comedy gets, the more drama is in them, because real life is not just
be very embarrassing. she s gotten her boobies. oh. i better go get my magnifying glass. when i was in high school and mother said to me, some day you ll look back on all this and laugh, i didn t realize it would take, look, 20 years, but ultimately she was right. my two front teeth didn t fall out until i was in fifth grade. which is late. and 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 s been 12 years old, everybody knows what that feels like. were you typical? i was typical of, i guess, a young, budding future pervert. sitting around when you was