ABC's hangout comedy Happy Endings, starring Coupe, Cuthbert, Casey, and Wayans the Younger

Tonight was great, loved Jane's 90s outfit.

Also nice Reckless Records t-shirt in the Blackass scene.

dope sick episode dawg

Yeah, it was cool to see Kyle from Party Down on tv again.

oh shit that's where i knew him from!

Eliza Coupe and co are making a web series about a picture of Michael Fassbender.

http://www.funnyordie.com/somelikeitcoupe

I'll be glad when new eps come back...two weeks of repeats is two weeks too many.

xp lol @ "you're not even gonna talk when I blow you?"

Each one is funnier than the last.

Yeah the slang and facial expressions are so far removed from anything actual real live people do that it makes Friends seem like a documentary by comparison,

I'd been trying to put my finger on what seemed most 'off' about this show. I think this is it.

I love that they are playing old episodes I missed the first time around, Max's coming out episode was super hilarious

I want to talk about Penny's date but it so spoils it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but oh my god the writers were on a tear in this episode

also it will never happen but a cross-show Happy Endings/New Girl meeting between Penny and Schmidt would be amahze

I think this is why I have been able to get into it? There's something very cold and detached about it. xxp

Man, I don't think "cold" applies to this show at all.

there is a definite element of surreality in the show that can generate detachment (I felt that in the first episode of it I watched, where they were going to a wedding of I think one of Penny's exes) but, as I believe I said upthread, the friend dynamics and back-and-forth in this show is scarily like the interactions between at least one circle of my friends, plus the actor chemistry really does fill in a lot of blanks for me

but then again, weird slightly surreal shows have always been my bag when it comes to modern comedy (RIP Better Off Ted)

play a little d'angelo and then pull out my peen'angelo

lol'ing heartily at damon wayans jr tnite

He was killing it

I'm starting to think he's funnier than his dad. Apples & oranges, sure, but Damon Jr. seems more adept at physical stuff and rapid-fire timing. And the fondue bit was genius.

i never found his dad funny. i remember an ep of My Wife and Kids where Damon Wayans spends the whole episode explaining to Junior how wack weed is in the uncoolest, condescending ways possible. jennifer freeman was cute tho so

I actually never saw MW&K, but remember Damon Sr.'s standup being pretty funny. He was also one of the (very, very few) high points of the 1985-86 season of SNL.

The "asthma" bit in the limo was lols for me for some reason.

if your only exposure to Damon Wayons Sr is "My Wife and Kids", you haven't really seen Damon Wayans Sr IMO

that's like saying "I've never found Tracy Morgan funny; I saw one episode of 'The Tracy Morgan Show' and it was just the worst"

haha

Damon Sr's golden hour was In Living Color.

if your only exposure to Damon Wayons Sr is "My Wife and Kids", you haven't really seen Damon Wayans Sr IMO

Srsly.

ashamed to admit i've never seen an episode of In Living Color

:O

that show was so huge it spawned careers for BOTH Shawn and Marlon Wayans, and Shawn was just the DJ and Marlon only did season 4

i have seen numerous episodes of the Wayans Bros.

laughed so much at damon wayans, jr + the chocolate fondue

When he was drooling in the dentist's waiting room...so great.

is it pretty uncontroversial at this point to say that damon wayans jr is the funniest wayans? (based on my limited experience, this seems to be true)

The only real contest is with his dad imo. They were awesome together on that episode from S1.

that show was so huge it spawned careers for BOTH Shawn and Marlon Wayans

this is the most hilariously fucked up way to state the importance of In Living Color

he has become my favorite part of happy endings.

licking his watch to see the time...

What was that extreme-walking thing he did a few eps ago? KILLED.

3some stuff was gross but everything else in the latest episode killed

yeah i hated the threesome stuff but what are you going to do

although im still tickled by 'that restaurant is harder to get into than insert obvious joke here. the alt-comedy club downtown'

my uncle wrote for In Living Color so being a kid and meeting the guy from "Men on Film" was an early life highlight (though as an incipient homosexual I also wanted to punch him, nice as he was). Anyway Jr clearly had the best moments in this ep.

The threesome stuff was terrible except it again showed how lame Dave is, and I like that they're comfortable with making him lame (maybe also due to that guy not being funny).

also: JAMES WOLK IS SO DREAMY, very Kyle Chandler-lite. I still wish Lone Star was on tv.

the 3some stuff also got us more classic comedy email jokes so i guess it was worth it

also most solid zing was calling dave ross i mean no one wants to be the ross

Just the fact that they addressed 'Friends' at all was so great.

also their Friends assignation was spot-on (Casey Wilson's face after being called Phoebe!)

Max as hibernating bear was a treasure trove of sight/sound gags. Also, Alex seems to get funnier every week. When she popped up from the couch while Penny and Dave were in the kitchen, every line she had was gold.

True (especially, "He actually eats honey like that no matter what time of year it is"), but something felt just slightly off about tonight's episode. I'm not sure what it was, and I may well feel differently after a second viewing, but not every joke nailed its target.

Thought it was great tonight, but I'm a total Jane/Brad stan. Also big props to the rest of the cast for working so well together that the "cuuuuttee shirt" stuff worked.

at first i was feeling like the show was off, but then i loled so hard at

"oh my god. bird!"
"did you have a stroke? it's brad."

Brad's face when Penny explained the door metaphor was a gem. Also their fake fight was good. And "The Vanilla is ME".

Yes, the fake fight was amazing.

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