Fuckin' Craig Mazin: An Appreciation of Ted Cruz's College Roommate
PoliticsThis endless and deeply tragic week in America has brought us precisely one good thing: a reminder that Craig Mazin exists, the one-time roommate and lifelong enemy of Ted Cruz. Fuckin’ Craig. Love that guy.
Mazin is a somewhat famous screenwriter and director (he wrote The Hangover parts II and III and some of the Scary Movies), and, more importantly for our purposes, was freshman roommates with Cruz at Princeton. It was an experience that Mazin found deeply scarring; so much so that as Cruz’s political star has risen, Mazin has been moved time and again to comment on what a fucking asshole he thinks the Senator is.
In a truly wonderful Daily Beast piece in 2013, he expounded at length to reporter Patricia Murphy about his hatred for Cruz, leaving us with a number of glorious anecdotes that really sound just like Ted Cruz. Such as:
“I remember very specifically that he had a book in Spanish and the title was Was Karl Marx a Satanist? And I thought, who is this person?” Mazin says of Ted Cruz. “Even in 1988, he was politically extreme in a way that was surprising to me.”
And also: