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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants

This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]


billytea - Jul 31, 2020 7:09:44 am PDT #8530 of 8624
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

How is it only in the last month or so that I'm discovering Hannah Gadsby? ("Discovering" like Columbus discovered America - she's been around for a good decade or something). She's got the most amazing spicy brains and she's cute as hell. Gotta find me a friend willing to lend me a Netflix password so I can see "Nanette". Seriously, she's awesome, how am I only just now finding this bandwagon to hop on to?

Oh! I get to be all "I liked her before it was cool"! Biyi and I saw her stand-up show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival a decade ago or so. She was just in a meeting room at Melbourne City Hall. (The topic was her experience walking across England, as in from the Irish to the North Sea.) One thing I missed out on was that she used to do walking tours of the National Gallery here. (She has a degree in Art History.)

Alas, I don't have Netflix, so I haven't seen Nanette yet either.


Laura - Jul 31, 2020 7:35:48 am PDT #8531 of 8624
Our wings are not tired.

I love JtV so so so so much.

It is the Latino version of Soap, which I also loved. It's awesome.


Jessica - Jul 31, 2020 7:39:25 am PDT #8532 of 8624
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

It is the Latino version of Soap, which I also loved. It's awesome.

I always thought of it as a Latina Gilmore Girls.


Laura - Jul 31, 2020 7:56:32 am PDT #8533 of 8624
Our wings are not tired.

Ah, I didn't watch Gilmore Girls so I didn't get a connection there.


EpicTangent - Jul 31, 2020 7:57:18 am PDT #8534 of 8624
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

One thing I missed out on was that she used to do walking tours of the National Gallery here. (She has a degree in Art History.)

Yeah, she's got some great stuff on YouTube showing off her Spicy Art Brain.


Jessica - Jul 31, 2020 8:08:11 am PDT #8535 of 8624
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Ah, I didn't watch Gilmore Girls so I didn't get a connection there.

The three generations of Villanueva women reminded me a lot of the three generations of Gilmores.


-t - Jul 31, 2020 9:33:56 am PDT #8536 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I can see that. The Villanuevas are a lot more apt to actually work through their issues than the Gilmores though.


amyparker - Jul 31, 2020 3:22:27 pm PDT #8537 of 8624
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

I am watching Schitt's Creek (Plei's fault!) and "Get through the first season, I promise it is worth it!" is a big ask, but it pays off, OMG. I am now completely fannish over it, to the point that I watched an episode of Hot Ones just because Dan Levy was the guest.

(Is it general knowledge that he and Noah Reid had downed a bottle of prosecco between them before recording David's lipsync? "More people should get tipsy at lunch!")


Dana - Jul 31, 2020 3:29:45 pm PDT #8538 of 8624
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Is it general knowledge that he and Noah Reid had downed a bottle of prosecco between them before recording David's lipsync?

It's definitely the story that gets told about that scene. That and the song being the extended version and Dan not being prepared.


-t - Jul 31, 2020 4:13:29 pm PDT #8539 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hahaha, I didn't know that but I don't know anything

That show, man. The first few episodes were so hard to watch but once it got its hooks in me...