I think 'Saturday Night Live' starting in the 1970s really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken...
The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic...
When I was growing up my mother would say 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.