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Comedian nails the boomer-millennial divide hilariously: They’re confident and unaware, we notice everything

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BS BULLETIN:

  • Comedian Jared Freid says he has discovered an excellent survival strategy for dealing with boomer parents: Turn everything they do into material.
  • His upcoming Netflix special “The Family Plan” grew out of a family vacation to Delray Beach and one devastating question from Dad: “How much do you weigh?”
  • Freid’s generational diagnosis may be even better: Millennials notice everything, while boomers are “incredibly confident and unaware.”

Jared Freid has discovered one way to survive your parents: Monetize them.

The 41-year-old comedian’s new Netflix special, “The Family Plan,” arrives Sept. 1 and revolves around a family vacation to Delray Beach, Florida, where Freid’s father provided the inspiration with four tender words: “How much do you weigh?”

And they say romance is dead.

Freid told Fox News Digital that his family is the “main driver” of his comedy because frustration tends to produce his best material — and apparently nobody can push the right buttons quite like Mom and Dad.

His description of the boomer-millennial relationship may be the best part.

“Millennials are incredibly insecure and notice everything,” Freid said. “Boomers are incredibly confident and unaware.”

“What a horrible combination.”

There it is: An entire generation gap explained without a PowerPoint presentation.

Freid said the maddening part is that parents are “always 10% right,” which requires their adult children to exercise enormous amounts of restraint and empathy.

There’s also a financial complication. Freid argues millennials are often more economically entangled with their parents than previous generations of adults — which helps explain why a 41-year-old comedian can devote part of a Netflix special to defending his continued membership on the family cellphone plan.

His parents apparently aren’t running out of material, either. Freid said his next batch of comedy began when his father offered him Ozempic at dinner. “Do I look that horrific that you have to offer me your prescription medication?” he recalled wondering.

Mom provides her share, too. Freid described the familiar parental barrage: Come home. When are you leaving? Eat something. Stop eating. What are you drinking? You drive too fast. You drive like an old lady.

His description of that nonstop commentary? A Jewish man’s “white noise machine.”

Freid insists the jokes come from affection rather than contempt. “I only talk about myself,” he told Fox. “I want to make fun of people I know and love.”

That philosophy apparently includes Rob Lowe. Freid has a routine in the special mocking Lowe’s role as an Atkins spokesman, joking about the absurdity of convincing an overweight customer that eating Atkins products might somehow transform him into Rob Lowe.

Then Freid actually met Lowe at a Netflix golf tournament. He nervously confessed that he’d been telling a joke about him onstage for two years.

“Atkins?” Lowe immediately responded. He had already heard about it — and told Freid he couldn’t wait to see it. Freid said he “melted.”

Which probably beats what happens when Dad asks what you weigh.

MY QUICK TAKE

Boomers are confident and unaware. Millennials are insecure and notice everything.

That may be the clearest explanation of the last 15 years of American life I’ve heard.

And at 41, Freid is still on Dad’s cellphone plan. So score one for the boomers.

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