Mr. Lewis and Mr. Widdicombe are among the British comics riffing on millennial parenting, in which men are expected to — and want to — play more active roles at home than their fathers or grandfathers did. Yes, the comics say, their kids are wonderful, hilarious, the actual lights of their actual lives. “Failure is funny,” explained Sam Avery, a British comic who has long joked about raising kids. “And parenting is 90 percent failure.”The increasing success of the genre may also be a function of the technology itself, several British comedy critics and experts said. For Mr. Lewis, the dad stuff was kind of an accident (His children — now 6, 5 and almost 2 — were not).

Source: The Times March 20, 2025 04:10 UTC