The practice of building a situation comedy in a Stand-Up comedian is sanctified television practice, returning to Jack Benny and Danny Thomas and running forward through Bob Newhart, Roseanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen Degeneres, George López and Martin Lawrence, among others. These “comedy” shows are based on the non -unreasonable and frequently demonstrable idea that the star comes with a built -in audience, the program and the character generally share their name, and that a person who is good to tell stories on stage could be a good option for the multi -cameras television stage. This has not been true in each comic given a show; Even someone as reliably hilarious as John Mulaney was an infallible option for form.
“Leanne”, which opens Thursday in Netflix, stars Leanne Morgan, a 25 -year night sensation of Knoxville, Tennessee, whose star rose on the cultural horizon when he was already in most of his fifty years. (Now he is 59 years old). Cooking Chuck Lorre (with Morgan and Susan McMartin), the man behind “Cybill”, “Dharma & Greg”, “Two and a half men” and “The Big Bang Theory”, previously built “grace under fire” around another southern stand-up, Brett Butler. The premise here is essentially: recent mature woman in a situation comedy.
If people around them are mainly types in which players are poured, Morgan is more a person in which a character has been inserted. TV Leanne is not exactly real Leanne, who is happily married; It is touring throughout the year (under the title “just starting”); He has starred in a Netflix special, “I am all women”; He published a book, “What the hell? And, obviously, he stars in this situation comedy. In addition to living in Knoxville, having children and grandchildren and representing someone more or less of his own age, he is not playing herself; however, there is an honesty in her performance, possibly not related to that she is new in this. Witherspoon this year, Meh Primo Video Rom-Com “You are cordially guest”).
At the beginning, Leanne, the character, is mainly defined, as the negative space, by the surrounding figures. There is a husband, Bill (Ryan Stiles) who has just left her for a younger woman, an event so fresh that only her sister, Carol (Kristen Johnston), knows; Single, twice divorced, by fun, Carol is considered sophisticated because once lived in Chicago. Daughter Josie (Hannah Pilkes) is a bit wild, but not particularly problematic; In any case, nobody pays close attention. Son Tyler (Graham Rogers), on whom Leanne goes out, works for his father, who has three Emporios de Casas Rodantes, who counts the house of the good house that is the main team of the series, and is equipped with a pregnant wife mostly outside the screen, Nora (Annie González); He feels oppressed, but maybe he is tired. Leanne's parents, John (Blake Clark) and Margaret (Celia Weston) are for the complaint and nonsense, respectively. On the other side of Vive Mary Street (Jayma Mays), the incarnation of the curious property in a city that cannot maintain a secret.
Leanne remembers how in the 80s it was “pretty” and desirable “because he had hormones, hair spray, and a VW insect with a cassette extraction player.” (This is also a reason in Morgan's stand-up). It is now careful and appropriate, and you can barely kiss the good FBI agent, Andrew (Tim Daly), which wanders the show as a possible romance. (Morgan said in the “Today” program that Daly was, in fact, the first man who had kissed apart from her husband in 33 years. Art and life.) One expects not to be a murderer, that it would be 80% if it were a mystery. But I think we are safe.
The younger spectators who are here can be discouraged by jokes on suffocation, pelvic exercises, enlarged prostrates and such and perhaps especially by sexual jokes in the mouths of old people, well, older. (I feel you there, young). The representative demographic group can laugh knowingly, or not.
Here is Leanne, flirting with Andrew in his first encounter.
Andrew (swallowing some pills): “I had to have something and now I have to take these things every four hours or could have … something else.”
Leanne (sweetly): “I have things. My bag is a little Walgreens with a beautiful strap.”
Each fourth or fifth joke has the air of being beaten in an anvil, and some could have been better in the blacksmith. However, I like this show, in large part, but not at all because I like to morgan, the way it says “Spasba, that is Russian to thank” a waiter who gives a vodka, and sings a little of the “Don's Want me” of the human league.
The company, which supports the star with the veterans of “Third Rock from the Sun”, “The Drew Coey Show” and “Wings”, is generally a good company, and I am happy to see that “Leanne” has an season of 18 transmission style episodes, being the best friend of an American comedy. (I would give some episodes to decide).
In addition to the star itself, the show is the most conventional as it can. A character that embarks on a new chapter is, of course, the starting point of each third situation comedy ever performed, but since many of us have had to start new chapters or wish that we can, it is an adequate way to begin.
