REVIEW, This funny lady is (literally) a gas ALL EDITIONS
Except it's more integral to the show than "Dy-no-mite!" or "Are you having a laugh?" As [Sarah] takes tonight's charity object home, handing him clean dish towels to sleep under instead of the dirty discards he'd been fishing out of her trash, she remembers a dist...
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| Published in | Newsday |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Long Island, N.Y
Newsday LLC
08.02.2007
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| Edition | Combined editions |
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| Summary: | Except it's more integral to the show than "Dy-no-mite!" or "Are you having a laugh?" As [Sarah] takes tonight's charity object home, handing him clean dish towels to sleep under instead of the dirty discards he'd been fishing out of her trash, she remembers a distinct kind of flatulence with which she'd tormented him back in their teen years. This is crucial to the story's climactic fight scene - yes, that, too - scored with "Rocky"-style '80s power pop, when the gay guys save Sarah from a gross-faced ghost and a knife- wielding attacker. Mostly. After sending out the series pilot to critics, Comedy Central pushed it back to air as the finale of this six-episode season (March 8). Its randomness has Sarah mocking the poor and handicapped, conducting a gas-passing symphony, knocking over a convenience store, and scheming to get a wish fulfilled by sleeping with God, who's a middle-aged black man, then unceremoniously dumping him the next morning. You could say this hectic intro was postponed because it hadn't quite mastered the show's unique comedy rhythms. Or you could say it pushed so many buttons, it even freaked out the network. In next Thursday's episode, Sarah gets an AIDS test. That's less potentially offensive, right? Right? |
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