Editing Mike Judge (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Mike.judge office.space.10th.jpg|thumb|Judge with his daughters at the [[Paramount Theatre (Austin, Texas)]], February 8, 2009]]
Judge married Francesca Morocco in 1989; they divorced in 2009.<ref name="people.com">{{cite web |title=Cretins of Cool |url=https://people.com/archive/cretins-of-cool-vol-40-no-14/ |website=People |date=October 4, 1993 |access-date=January 1, 2019 |archive-date=May 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504051850/http://people.com/archive/cretins-of-cool-vol-40-no-14/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Capcae">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bE-OBlP-zPUC&q=mike+judge+Francesca+Morocco&pg=PA184|title=Encyclopedia of New Mexico|last=Capace|first=Nancy|date=2001|publisher=Capace|isbn=9780786486946|language=en|access-date=October 5, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805065650/https://books.google.com/books?id=bE-OBlP-zPUC&q=mike+judge+Francesca+Morocco&pg=PA184|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Macor">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoVOCgAAQBAJ&dq=mike+judge+francesca+morocco&pg=PA251|title=Chain, Slackers, and Spy Kids|last=Macor|first=Alison|date=2010|publisher=Capace|isbn=9780786486946|language=en|access-date=March 19, 2023|archive-date=August 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805070146/https://books.google.com/books?id=KoVOCgAAQBAJ&dq=mike+judge+francesca+morocco&pg=PA251|url-status=live}}</ref> Together they have two daughters. 
He has a son with [[Katrina Holden Bronson]].<ref name="people.com"/><ref name="People Magazine">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMFlLXWVZr8C&q=mike+judge+francesca+morocco|title=People Magazine|last=Brooks|first=Coper|date=2002|publisher=People Magazine|isbn=9780786486946|language=en}}</ref> The family lives in [[Austin, Texas]], and [[Santa Monica, California]], having previously resided in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]].<ref>[https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2011/12/18/judge-is-king-of-a-new-castle/29068079007/ "Judge is King of a new castle"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203160123/https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2011/12/18/judge-is-king-of-a-new-castle/29068079007/ |date=February 3, 2024 }} Sarasota Herald-Tribute, December 17, 2011</ref><ref name="Stone, Madeline">{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-judge-sells-malibu-home-for-43-million-2015-5|title=Go inside the $4.3 million Malibu home of 'Silicon Valley' creator Mike Judge|author=Stone, Madeline|website=[[Business Insider]]|date=May 8, 2015|access-date=January 1, 2019|archive-date=January 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102051058/https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-judge-sells-malibu-home-for-43-million-2015-5|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Political views===
While ''[[King of the Hill]]'' is often a satire of protagonist [[Hank Hill]], identifiable as a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]],<ref name="ign">{{cite web |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/05/10/interview-mike-judge-reaches-the-top-of-the-hill |title=Interview: Mike Judge Reaches the Top of the Hill |last=Goldman |first=Eric |date=May 10, 2006 |website=[[IGN]] |access-date=June 24, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120517001636/http://tv.ign.com/articles/707/707158p4.html |archive-date=May 17, 2012}}</ref> and his ''[[The Goode Family]]'' is essentially a satire centered around a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] family, Judge avoids discussing his own political leanings.<ref name="ign" />

In reviewing ''[[Idiocracy]]'', [[Salon.com|Salon]] stated, "Judge's [[wikt:gimlet-eyed|gimlet eye]] is so ruthless that at times his politics seem to border on [[South Park Republican|''South Park'' libertarianism]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Stevens |first=Dana |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2157486 |title=Mike Judge's Idiocracy reviewed. – By Dana Stevens – Slate Magazine |publisher=Slate.com |date=January 12, 2007 |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123164129/http://www.slate.com/id/2157486/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A writer for the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|libertarian]] magazine ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' seems to agree, comparing ''King of the Hill'' to the anti-authoritarian point of view of ''South Park'' and ''[[The Simpsons]]'', though he calls the show more [[Populism|populist]], noting the disdain ''King of the Hill'' seems to have for bureaucrats, professionals, and [[Big-box store|big-box chains]].<ref>{{cite web |author=[[Jesse Walker]] |url=http://reason.com/archives/2003/12/14/animated-discourse |title=Animated Discourse |publisher=Reason.com |date=December 14, 2003 |access-date=March 28, 2011 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065550/http://reason.com/archives/2003/12/14/animated-discourse |url-status=live }}</ref>

Still, Judge denies having political messages in his shows, saying in 2006 in an ''[[IGN]]'' interview about ''King of the Hill'':<ref name="ign" />

{{blockquote|I try to not let the show get too political. To me, it's more social than political I guess you'd say, because that's funnier. I don't really like political reference humor that much. Although I liked the episode 'Hank's Bully' where Hank's talking to the mailman and he says, 'Why would anyone want to lick a stamp that has [[Bill Clinton]] on it?' To me that's just like more of a character thing about Hank than it is a political joke or anything. I don't want to do a bunch of stuff about [[Iraq War|the war]], particularly.}}

In June 2016, before the [[2016 United States presidential election|presidential election]] in November, [[Etan Cohen]] told ''[[BuzzFeed]]'' that he and Judge would produce ''Idiocracy''-themed [[Campaign advertising|campaign advertisements]] mocking [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|Donald Trump's presidential campaign]] if given permission from [[20th Century Fox]] to do so.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/idiocracy-team-ready-anti-donald-trump-campaign-ads-20160603|title='Idiocracy' Team Ready Anti-Donald Trump Campaign Ads|work=rollingstone.com|date=June 4, 2016|access-date=November 30, 2016|archive-date=December 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161212044338/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/idiocracy-team-ready-anti-donald-trump-campaign-ads-20160603|url-status=live}}</ref> It was later reported by ''[[Business Insider]]'' that they would not have been campaign ads, would have mocked all of the candidates, and would not go forward.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/terry-crews-says-no-idiocracy-anti-donald-trump-ads-2016-7|title=Terry Crews says there won't be any 'Idiocracy'-themed ads attacking Donald Trump after all|work=businessinsider.com|access-date=January 15, 2018|archive-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818091046/http://www.businessinsider.com/terry-crews-says-no-idiocracy-anti-donald-trump-ads-2016-7|url-status=live}}</ref>