Austin Strip Clubs: Mike Judge’s Extract Interview
MJ: Well it actually kind of started out as that. In fact, I realized it was only worthy of a subplot and the rest came out later. It came out of a conversation with two friends of mine. A long time ago like in 1999, we talked about the Howard Stern Show where he’d do that thing where [the guy] is married and the stripper is in there, or whatever, and telling him his wife has cancer. We’re talking about how he’s never going to cheat on her, the only way is if she died or if she cheated. It kind of was a conversation we had when we started talking about that show. And us being married guys. I started writing that not knowing where I was going with it. Sometimes it’s just little bits to see if I can work something out, and then I decided to make it all happen in this workplace comedy.