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The Playboy Comedian: David Spade’s Unique Life

One of the Boys

Born in 1964 in Michigan, David Wayne Spade was the youngest of three siblings. His mother, Judith, was a writer and magazine editor, while his father, Wayne, was a sales rep. His parents got divorced after the family moved to Arizona when he was four, and his mom raised him and his brothers alone.

A vintage portrait of David Spade’s family.

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Spade grew up shooting guns with his brothers, and they all had their own firearms. Because their mom was raising them alone and had to work a lot, she would drop them at one end of the desert with lunch, a first aid kit, and their guns. They would shoot anything they could find.