“Like Amy and David Sedaris before them, Meg and Nick Stalter capture the comedy magic that can only come from growing up under the same roof and collaborating on creative projects from a young age.
I applaud Meg’s audacious choices: to work with simple tools and loose structure and find repetitions and develop running gags that keep the whole enterprise afloat. The genuine pathos in her deeply flawed character really motivates all the comedy of the show. Think Lisa Kudrow’s deluded Valerie Cherish in The Comeback or Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s pathological narcissist Selina Meyer in VEEP. Meg is a new comedy classic, a great artist who pulls so many real life pathologies into the distinctly American characters she creates. She is such a careful and sensitive observer of the types of people she skewers that her love for them comes through clearly despite her exploration of their flaws. Maybe her comedy can teach us how to give these sick sad souls the love they so desperately crave. We are so fortunate to have her.”
AlexanderOwen via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/31/20