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The Future of Comedy Is Deplorable The future of comedy is definitely female. No one exemplifies this more than Julie Klausner, whose Hulu show “Difficult People” just finished its third season. The New Republic called the season “its most mature iteration of the show… [Difficult People] has finally found its groove and its glory zone.”…
This week, Hulu’s Difficult People starred Marilyn (the firebrand mother figure, played by Andrea Martin), throwing herself a Bat Mitzvah. Which we found pretty inspiring. In honor of this momentous occasion, we decided it’s time to do a wrap-up of the five best bar mitzvah moments on TV. Because, yes, in the goldeneh medinah, anything…
One sticky night last June, my girlfriends and I met up on the warehouse-lined streets of Bushwick to see a comedy show. That evening, Naomi Ekperigin took to the stage and proceeded to . A writer on Broad City and Difficult People, her hysterical worldview permeates some of the hottest shows on television. In her…
Julie Klausner greets me with a enthusiastic “Shabbat Shalom!” when she answers the phone. The 37-year-old comedian and creator of the new Hulu comedy series ‘Difficult People,’ is mid-way through a whirlwind press tour when we connect, and her sense of humor is firmly intact. When I begin by asking for her thoughts on being…
