Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

but i did watch the "Have Ya Read" sketch, which I thought was great once it hit its absurdist climax.

opposite for me, i was dying and it gets all wacky and punchline-y, whatever.

I think the real problem is brownstein + armisen are gently ribbing instead of savagely satirizing because they actually have deep seated fondness for hipsters

the best satire is often insidery and affectionate to some degree. like repo man works because cox was familiar with and fond of punk(s). people making fun of supposed "hipsters" = automatically boring. self-admitted hipsters mocking themselves = at least potentially funny.

tbh I wasn't really passing judgment on portlandia, just trying to help max work through his issues

hipsterism is overdue for some OTM savagery tho

the best satire is often insidery and affectionate to some degree. like repo man works because cox was familiar with and fond of punk(s). people making fun of supposed "hipsters" = automatically boring. self-admitted hipsters mocking themselves = at least potentially funny.

― normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Friday, January 21, 2011 3:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

not true, mocking ppl who are different from u is actually the funniest thing

doesn't have to be either/or

fey as sarah palin / poehler as clinton SNL skit is a good case study

this looks hilar

its not tho

Yeah, I don't like it.

the hulu full ep is expired so i cant tell either way, i like the clip where he comes back to l.a. all excited abt portland tho

all i've seen is the "did you read" thing but that was way better than i thought it'd be. i also live here.

the oregonian had a front-page story about this btw, complete w/ quotes from people worried it would "draw more unemployed young people" to the city.

haha

i just saw a banner ad for this on pitchfork and physically recoiled

As a lifelong portlander I am pretty icked out by this whole thing. I dunno, maybe if I can summon the nerve to actually watch it I might have something to say other than "eww, really?"

Also a ton of ppl I know are very, like, proud (?) of this show representing the city/them and that sorta grosses me out too, maybe. Though they prob just like the "attention".

portland in liking attention shocker

yeah I've never quite got what that's all about. burg has a Napoleon-complex.

i mean i'm really happy here, but once i was walking down burnside and there were all these flyers taped to the side of the crystal ballroom that said in block letters PORTLAND IS COOLER THAN BROOKLYN and like, if you have to say it...

lol so perfect

heard npr feature on this and immediately don't want to watch it because i can't stand carrie b and her annoying affected voice (she drives me insane every time she's on all songs considered)... but the concept seems really funny to me and i feel like watching it because i miss the pnw. totally torn.

i think every city in this country has a weird napoleon complex about something except for, well, new york city.

i thought the bit about the chicken in the first ep was funny

xp -- does carrie b have an affected voice? i can't stand her on all songs considered either but that's just because she has The Most Boring Opinions Ever. (much <3 2 s-k and my girl corin though)

(n.b. have only heard carrie brownstein on all songs considered twice)

i think every city in this country has a weird napoleon complex about something except for, well, new york city.

don't discount canadian cities, they also have this complex! maybe even WORSE! i feel by even typing that i'm ughhhhhh

thought that 1st episode was funny enough, but this LOL HIPSTER shit is wearing very thin. guess this could be slightly more interesting as a "insiders' perspective" or whatever. at least that puts them in a position to make something more than LOL FIXED GEAR BIKES, OBSCURE MUSIC.

I don't have IFC, but they shd def have a scene in the Portland Eagle, both the funniest and 'nicest' Eagle of the ones in which I've actually seen leather and flogging.

guess the first episode was funny enough, but I'm having a hard time imagining that this premise is sustainable.

someone upthread said the worst sketch was the buscemi one but that was the one that made me really laugh (not so much for buscemi) and think about watching this for more than one episode. sleater-kinney girl is not really any good at comedy, though.

ilx search: hipster > this show could run for 20 seasons

white effete counterculture liberals making fun of themselves without turning it into a hilaaaaarious ironic rap song for once is okay by me, at least on a conceptual level. Bored To Death is doing it well, The Goode Family did it poorly, this is probably somewhere in between.

most otm Portland-based contemporary food culture humor since Achewood

don't discount canadian cities, they also have this complex! maybe even WORSE! i feel by even typing that i'm ughhhhhh

― Postmodern Bourbon Development (Will M.), Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:40 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha canada just i dont even know

most otm Portland-based contemporary food culture humor since Achewood

― smang the DJ (I DIED), Saturday, January 22, 2011 10:39 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

put a bird on it is cute but damned if i could actually watch 30 straight mins of this

yeah i watched this and it was pretty funny, shipley otm when he says "at least theres no rapping." theyre def shooting fish in a barrel but theyve got pretty good aim. laughed the hardest at the old woman in the hide and seek sketch

Watching this primarily for Carrie but the rest is good too

is the full episode up anywhere else? seems like it was pulled from hulu. the 'I read it' sketch is pretty funny.

if you google around you can find it on megavideo

i thought it was pretty funny!

this sorta seems like what stuffwhitepeoplelike should have attempted to do

it made me really nostalgic!
i miss seattle. some of the portland funny, but a lot cleaner/less hipster?

the idea of portland alt culture as a 1990s legacy counterfactual is p lol

loved the nod to clowning in the opening btw

i thought the hide and seek league was funny.

are portland hipsters more socially/enviromentally conscious than brooklyn hipsters? serious question.

theyve just got to be

ime new yorkers who think they are green are at like 33% of pnw-er environmental consciousness, but i'm not sure how that breaks down with hipsters specifically.

honestly i think the platonic portland stereotype is really more a hippie thing. i mean there are keffiyehs and coke but that's not really what you make fun of when you make fun of portland.

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I love Nance and Peter the most, oddly

Brunch Village is a masterwork

Dave and Kath are pretty great too

the milk council bits are also amazing

Oh yeah. I think I dropped it after season 2 and then picked it back up after it was completed and on netflix. It's really great. That one song "The Best Part is Going Home" (after seeing a band) has been a huge help in making me feel better about not going to shows anymore.

otm about Nance and Peter. Oddly I skip all the gender switch couple bits. I think Carrie's voice freaks me out too much.

Watched part of the 30 ROCK infomercial for NBCUniversal. More of their Dig Our Privileged World cut-rate comedy. I want to see a PORTLANDIA reunion deal with that city's police state a la Haskell Wexler's MEDIUM COOL. How funny is a pepper-sprayed Fred Armisen? pic.twitter.com/AlE2lBAWyg

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 18, 2020

Morbz on some midsummer night's dream shit with this Dennis Perrin infatuation

you guys can stick with Tom Cruise i guess

My assumption is that Dr Morbius follows exactly three people on Twitter: 1) Dennis Perrin, 2) Doug Henwood, and 3) Alex Pareene.

i'm tempted to say even the worst episodes of 30 rock are funnier than dennis perrin but in all fairness the weather app on my phone is also funnier than dennis perrin

i'm not on Twitter

I also look at many film crix and sportswriters on it however

also the rock in the backyard is funnier than ilx

Portlandia already did a "let's take over the police department" skit and it was ridiculous and sort of bad, mostly because it existed in the extremely White sphere of "cops just answer our noise complaints, right" and ended up taking the cops' side. (On the plus side, the uniforms Fred and Carrie created to make the police more relatable to the community were pretty funny, as was the fashion show where they presented them to an increasingly incredulous chief of police.)

Most of the times that the show involves police officers, they're seen as largely benign government agents patiently dealing with increasingly ridiculous White/White-passing people, which glosses over the problems endemic to the modern police force. It's still usually funny, thought; the skit I reference above was an outlier.