Can watching Jared Freid's 'The Family Plan' bring you closer with your boomer parents?

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Set us as preferred Jared Freid remembers the moment he found his true calling in comedy.Oddly it came after he’d already found success with his debut Netflix special “37 & Single” in 2023, which allowed him to live the stand-up dream of making it to a big streamer.But then that moment passed and the Boston-bred comic was once again starting from square one scrounging for joke ideas.

That’s when he decided to dig up an old story he’d told on stage about his dad body-shaming him during a family outing in Delrey Beach, Fla.“We’re sitting at the beach, and my dad asked me how much I weighed, and I was so mad about it,” Freid remembers.

Seething at his dad for poking at his body insecurities, the comedian dealt with his emotions like any good millennial — by podcasting about it.Venting the story that took only about a minute to tell on a microphone led to more fights with his aging boomer parents soon after when they heard the episode.

Jared Freid sits down with LA Times Entertainment Editor Nate Jackson to discuss his new Netflix hour, “The Family Plan,” which turns a beach blowup with his dad into a sharply observed, big-hearted look at boomer-millennial family warfare and reconciliation.Scrolling back through that memory, Freid said something clicked when he thought about the alarmingly close relationship millennials still have with their parents in adulthood including still being on the family cellphone plan.“I can pay my own cellphone bill, but I’m still on their family plan,” he said.

“That says something about the millennial/boomer relationship, in my opinion.We’re weirdly attached to our parents, and in a way that no other generations were tied like that, like not mushed together.”Extending his one-minute bit into a full hour in his new Netflix special “The Family Plan” (out on...