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On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers discuss Maria Bamford’s new Netflix show, Lady Dynamite. Does the absurdist, fourth-wall-breaking comedy brought to us by Arrested Development’s Mitch Hurwitz and South Park’s Pam Brady impress the critics? Secondly, Carl Wilson joins to discuss Paul Simon’s new album, Stranger to Stranger, and his review for Slate in which he dubs Simon “the worst great songwriter”. Finally, Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone brought us the Lonely Island, but does the SNL comedy trio’s humor work as a feature-length movie?
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Lady Dynamite
- Flaked
- Louie
- Enlightened
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- Paul Simon’s new album Stranger to Stranger, in particular the songs “The Werewolf” and “The Wristband”
- Carl’s piece on Paul Simon in Slate, “The Worst Great Songwriter”
- Graceland
- Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade
- The Graduate soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel
- Mike Nichols’ Catch-22
- Chosen Paul Simon songs from the critics: “The Late Great Johnny Ace”, “Cecilia”, “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” and “Rewrite”
- The Justin Bieber documentary, Never Say Never
- Walk Hard
- Jesse David Fox’s article “How the Lonely Island Changed the Internet, Comedy, and Especially Internet Comedy” in Vulture
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