Why is that such a common thing? While there are certainly people in other generations who have bad marriages and go through bitter divorces, spouse hatred seems so much less common among other generations...
Why is that such a common thing? While there are certainly people in other generations who have bad marriages and go through bitter divorces, spouse hatred seems so much less common among other generations...
lots of good answers in this thread, but ya gotta note that a lot of what you hear are legitimately jokes.
even boomers crack jokes you're not supposed to take serious.
Yeah, the comedian that popularized that style of joke had, by all indications, a very long and happy marriage, with his wife traveling with him while he was touring and helping him write his material, meaning a lot of the jokes would have been exaggerated in-jokes between them or self-deprecating humor on her part.
Rodney Dangerfield?
Edit: not Rodney Dangerfield. Benny Youngman who was married to his wife from 1928 -1987. His main joke was “take my wife please.”
Hard to ignore it coming from a generation with such shatteringly high divorce rates.
There's an excellent take on this joke in S2 of I Think You Should Leave
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