Mike Judge Says Silicon Valley Is Funny And Sexless

What happens when you give a 24 year old billions of dollars?

Funny stuff, and not a lot of funny business, according to Mike Judge.

The Silicon Valley creator opined on all things on his region, and has found the real thing wanting in certain ways.

"We're at this kind of absurd time in history where people who are 24 are suddenly worth $10 billion in a year and a half," he said. And the kind of people who are making this kind of money are "perfect for comedy," he added.

"They have billions, so they can go build their own nuclear submarine on a private island, but they don't want to drive a flashy car," he told CNN Money. "It's all understated...I think it's kind of leftover hippie culture that still prevails."

Because, according to Judge -- a former computer engineer himself -- how else could "Office Space" have been so perfect. Despite all this money, Silicon Valley "nerds" have a hard time unwinding.

"I feel like the programmer types had to have something to show they're not nerds," he said during his interview, which was part of a larger series CNN did on Sex and Drugs in Silicon Valley.

"I just wonder how anybody gets laid up there," he said. "I got into Google and it seems like it's 80 percent men. You walk around Palo Alto, it seems like it's 80 percent men."

In other words: a lot of money and no romance, as CNN put it

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