For more than a decade I've been complaining about the state of comedy in TV and movies. Saturday Night Live isn't funny any more and the Apatow/Seth Rogan empire is as unfunny as the Adam Sandler world.
TV land is garbage too. Why can't network comedy just be comedy? Why do they all have to have horrible melodrama attached ala How I Met Your Mother, Friends, even Big Bang Theory. Even the Simpsons. I don't watch a comedy to see characters cry and whine and work out traumatic childhoods.
Then came Broad City. Like, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Workaholics, Portlandia, it sticks to COMEDY. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Abbi and Ilana! Real buddy comedy has arrived. I am vindicated. We don't have to accept the baloney Hollywood is feeding us . This is not lowest common denominator like Two and a Half Men and 2 Broke Girls. Broad City is smart and outrageous. I thought I'd just gotten old and lost my sense of humour watching the mainstream junk. Thought I'd have to start watch old people shows like House and Bones. Thanks to Sunny, Workaholics, Portlandia, and Broad City for saving my funny bone
TV land is garbage too. Why can't network comedy just be comedy? Why do they all have to have horrible melodrama attached ala How I Met Your Mother, Friends, even Big Bang Theory. Even the Simpsons. I don't watch a comedy to see characters cry and whine and work out traumatic childhoods.
Then came Broad City. Like, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Workaholics, Portlandia, it sticks to COMEDY. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Abbi and Ilana! Real buddy comedy has arrived. I am vindicated. We don't have to accept the baloney Hollywood is feeding us . This is not lowest common denominator like Two and a Half Men and 2 Broke Girls. Broad City is smart and outrageous. I thought I'd just gotten old and lost my sense of humour watching the mainstream junk. Thought I'd have to start watch old people shows like House and Bones. Thanks to Sunny, Workaholics, Portlandia, and Broad City for saving my funny bone