Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

A friend of mine used to wait tables with Armisen in the late 90's. I guess he was always doing shit like claiming to be the owner of the restaurant when customers asked to see the manager.

and then, I dunno, turn into boots.

This keeps making me laugh so maybe they should do this?

charlize theron nsfw

bemused-looking girl w striped shirt in front row at staff meeting in that sketch a good friend, an arizonan transplant but now officially canonized as Someone Who Looks Like She Lives In Portland

Matt Berry as Squiggleman!

I was effing BORN in Portland, and taking all things into account I've never really left it in the nearly six decades my life has spanned thus far, but no one would ever characterize me as Someone Who Looks Like He Lives In Portland. I am fitfully amused.

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbo-FBLdMH8

well sure to look like you live in portland you have to move there when you're 22

I didn't want to like this show and I didn't

how about that.

so wow this last episode was dull.

the targets of the jokes just feel like they've branched out, which would be good, except they've branched out to things i really don't even have a basis to think about, like so much b&b.

http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/kiran-herbert-portland-and-portlandia-two-worlds-of-whiteness/

that's a hellova weight to put on a show

Brunch Village episode was fantastic

Tim Robbins as the dungeonmaster character, just amazing. "I want you to tell me in a silent voice, using words."

"Silence!"
"Explain yourself!"
"Do you want me to be silent, or explain myself?"
"Explain yourself, in a silent voice, using words,"

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJLQfOQbtyE

xp oops double-posted the last line

ok the celery episode was really solid straight through.

i loved the bacon guy

garage sale

How much would a car even cost? Seventy THOUSAND dollars?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wyUiwCEl4

lol

opening sketch of going to a concert hit pretty close to home

Taped to my door this weekend:

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Pee-Wee Herman posted this today

Watched a couple of the new series. This show is so smug about itself it's hard to watch. It's got no jokes, punchlines or new ideas. Brownstein is still charming but Armisen is really vulgar and not funny at all as a woman which is pretty much all he did in the episodes I saw. Couldn't they just get a funny woman to play those characters? What a shitty show.

I liked the history of the women's bookstore episode

this show is hit or miss tho (and v repetitive)

Bookstore episode was like a slow victory lap of a previously amusing sketch.

it is quite painful at times. the bookstore for me has always been a bit of a one-note, mildly funny at best scenario. did not benefit from them fleshing out their backstory in a full-length episode.

smugness is def a feeling you get from the show, or complacency at least. they seem very pleased by the characters and situations they've made and will just persist with them interminably and aimlessly. also i increasingly find armisen just detestable, and while brownstein is much less obnoxious, i just don't find her a very compelling comedic performer.

I liked the episode where Spike proposed marriage too

may have been entirely due to remarkable similarity between Justin Long and Carrie Brownstein in a mustache tho

Armisen in a wig is not as funny as they think it is.

Are you having a laugh?
http://www.filmmisery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Screen-shot-2013-10-21-at-2.06.20-PM.png

Is he having a laugh?
https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/011511_portlandia_episode_1_t.jpg

its still reasonably funny imo but so much of it is just structure and editing

rapid-fire, back and forth cut conversations, i mean

i think that means the joeks don't have to be as good and it still sorta works

ok the feminism episode had some good lulz

I liked the Tiny House episode. Some well done physical comedy and that escrow VHS was great.

Documentary Now! is pretty funny.

Get that Old Navy money. Do what you have to do in this world.

Carrie did an American Express commercial a little while back too iirc.

Teenage me would've been bummed, but 30 something me would probably do the same thing.

Would 30 something you already have, like, enough money from their entertainment career?

Rolling in all those Wild Flag airplay royalties.

Carrie & Mary Timony did some Price line ads w/Shatner back in the day: http://www.mtv.com/news/620299/helium-sleater-kinney-members-do-commercials/

this has worked the best as a broad city substitute

Season 7 premiere tonight, any watching?

*anyone

So good to see Abbi Jacobson on this while waiting for Broad City.

Steve Buscemi's mannerisms are very Alan Alda in his apperances.