During a Tribeca panel, comedian Jim Gaffigan shared his humorous insights on parenting five children. He contrasted his initial confusion about parenting with his current perception that 'children are evil'. Gaffigan drew parallels between parenting and the entertainment industry, emphasizing the humiliation and tongue-biting it involves. He highlighted the cycle of embarrassment that occurs between parents and their children as they grow, noting that while parents may embarrass children when they are young, the tables turn dramatically during the teenage years.
I joke around and say, parenting is the most important thing I'll fail at, and there is something to that.
There's a cruelty that you're exposed to when your kids are teenagers.
The great irony is that they embarrass you when they're younger and then at some point for no reason at all, you are the largest source of embarrassment.
Parenting is similar to the entertainment industry, filled with enormous amounts of humiliation.
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