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Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous …
Paste Magazine In the fourth episode of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, comedy scene veteran Susie Meyerson (Alex Borstein) invites aspiring stand-up Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan, suitably marvelous) on a tour of New York's clubs: an oddball ventriloquist, at a … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman-Palladino's Best Show … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Finale Recap: A Triumphant Yet Sad Ending |
Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Paste Magazine
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Everybody Bombs: On the (Occasional) Brilliance of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Paste Magazine I meant it when I compared Midge's performances to musical numbers, in structure if not in tone—in the season's best sequence, she assumes emcee duties from Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) and drops a half-stoned, wholly captivating comic explosion on an … 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman-Palladino's Best Show Yet 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Finale Recap: A Triumphant Yet Sad Ending |
Redefining Drag In The Age Of Trump – Forbes
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Redefining Drag In The Age Of Trump
Forbes "Instead they find Larry Kramer meets Lenny Bruce meets Priscilla. Meets Pitch Perfect." The name is a pun on the Kinsey scale, shorthand for measuring sexual orientation, with six being the most gay. Schatz formed the Sicks in 1994, when he was … |
Who Is Midge Maisel Based On? Amazon’s ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Draws Inspiration From Comedy Elite – Bustle
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Who Is Midge Maisel Based On? Amazon's 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Draws Inspiration From Comedy Elite
Bustle The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel features one real comedian — Lenny Bruce, the infamous and unrestrained comic who influenced basically all of your favorite funny people. However, most of the characters on the Amazon series are fictional, but seem to have … Gilmore Girls duo's Marvelous new creation |
‘Mrs. Maisel’ Is Marvelous – Splitsider
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'Mrs. Maisel' Is Marvelous
Splitsider And what could be more Jewish than casting Lenny Bruce (played by Luke Kirby, outpacing Dustin Hoffman's Lenny by miles) in the role of Midge's fairy godmother, appearing occasionally to cheer her on and smoke her up? In Midge Lenny Bruce sees a … Alex Borstein's 'unrelenting' 'Mrs. Maisel' character bends the rules for women in the '50s |
Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The … – AV Club
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Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The …
AV Club Episode 3 starts with a shot of young blonde college Midge at a party where she and Joel flirt while she is supposed to be on a date with the handsome blonde jock, Palmer Witherspoon. Joel makes a couple of WASP jokes and Midge giggles: 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Recap: Season 1, Episode 3 – Vulture |
Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – AV Club
AV Club |
Midge makes up her mind about who wears the pants now in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
AV Club One of Midge's charms is that she is completely at ease in new situations: When Susie excitedly points out to Midge that the famous and talented Lenny Bruce is in the same diner as the two of them, Midge says, “Oh, you mean Lenny?” as if it's … The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Crime Doesn't Pay |
The afternoon Lenny Bruce and I spent cutting out newspaper pin-ups backstage at the Establishment club – The Guardian
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The afternoon Lenny Bruce and I spent cutting out newspaper pin-ups backstage at the Establishment club
The Guardian Which is why, one afternoon, I happened to be backstage – looking for the accountant to get paid – when I walked into a room to find the legendary American comedian Lenny Bruce. He was alone, kneeling on the floor, cutting out newspaper pictures and … |
Lenny Bruce Was A Real Comedian & He Fits In With ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ World Perfectly – Bustle
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Lenny Bruce Was A Real Comedian & He Fits In With 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' World Perfectly
Bustle Miriam "Midge" Maisel may be the star of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but her world is richly populated with vibrant, enchanting characters. One of the most captivating is Lenny Bruce, a real comedian played by Rectify's Luke Kirby. He's … The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Recap: Family Dinner On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Midge leaves the house on the hill and thrives on stage Is 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Based On A Real Person? |
You’re Going to Want to Watch Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Vogue.com
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You're Going to Want to Watch Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Vogue.com In 1962, Joan Rivers was in the audience at the Village Vanguard in New York City when Lenny Bruce got onstage. Bruce, the prototypical “sick comedian,” made his name with routines that annihilated the distinction between private and public thought. He … Review: In 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' a Comic Asks, Take My Strife, Please The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and the difficulty of being a female comic Yes, she's a little too on-the-nose, but 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' earns her title |