Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 3/24/23

[Abolishinist]

9. For those not aware, his father was an absolutely horrible person,

not only to David but to his other children and anyone else, for that matter.

Is it possible to love a hateful person? That's the question humorist David Sedaris grapples with when he considers his combative relationship with his late father, Lou.

"It's been the driving force in my life: the animosity, the war that my father and I started when I was young and fought every day of our lives," he says.

Sedaris describes his dad as a mean man who was buried in "layers of rage and disappointment." He stiffed contractors, made sexual remarks to his daughters and, when Sedaris was young, would often shove and hit him. Sedaris always felt like Lou disliked him and wanted him out of his life.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/31/1101440888/david-sedaris-happy-go-lucky