Fisher: For me, this is exactly what I always wanted to be and thought I should be doing. It’s comedy with a purpose, which is the basis of everything I’ve ever done. It was straddling the difference between my two goals: being the next Michael Moore and being the next Chelsea Handler. That’s really different, but I knew something existed that would be in between these things, and here it is. We’ve had conversations about it before as snark-comedy duo Sorry About Last Night, but I would always be like, “What is the message we are trying to say?” When you’re a comedian you have this beautiful opportunity to, without being preachy or boring, make a point.
Hutchinson: Yeah. In the back of my mind I just want to be funny, but the idea was introduced to me after doing this podcast that you can be funny and make people feel better about this area in their life that they really don’t feel good about. That’s 12,000 times more rewarding, and it’s something I never even thought could happen, that I could do. Whenever you set out to do something great it never works, but whenever you set out to do something really genuine and something that speaks to you, that’s when it works. I feel like people who are like, “We’re going to change the world!” never change the world, but if they were just like, “We’re going to be true to ourselves and really tackle things we think are important,” that’s when you take off.
Marjorie Kehe is the Christian Science Monitor’s Books editor.
Maureen Corrigan is book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and the author of “So We Read On” and “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading!What is the book from 2014, either from your list or not, fiction or non-fiction, that is most likely to join the canon, or still be discussed 20 years from now?“Rick and Morty,” “Rixty Minutes”
The entire first season of Rick and Morty impressed me, but it was “Rixty Minutes” that blew me away and cemented the series as one of my new favorites. The centerpiece of “Rixty Minutes” isn’t the actual plot — there isn’t much of one — or the brilliance of using mindless channel surfing as a way to show the infinite number of alternate universes, the different twists and turns various members of the family could have taken. Instead, it’s a sweet but disturbing conversation between Morty and his sister, who just found out that in many of these alternate universes she doesn’t even exist. Morty reveals his own grave and “comforts” her by saying, “Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”
Fisher: For me, this is exactly what I always wanted to be and thought I should be doing. It’s comedy with a purpose, which is the basis of everything I’ve ever done. It was straddling the difference between my two goals: being the next Michael Moore and being the next Chelsea Handler. That’s really different, but I knew something existed that would be in between these things, and here it is. We’ve had conversations about it before as snark-comedy duo Sorry About Last Night, but I would always be like, “What is the message we are trying to say?” When you’re a comedian you have this beautiful opportunity to, without being preachy or boring, make a point.
Hutchinson: Yeah. In the back of my mind I just want to be funny, but the idea was introduced to me after doing this podcast that you can be funny and make people feel better about this area in their life that they really don’t feel good about. That’s 12,000 times more rewarding, and it’s something I never even thought could happen, that I could do. Whenever you set out to do something great it never works, but whenever you set out to do something really genuine and something that speaks to you, that’s when it works. I feel like people who are like, “We’re going to change the world!” never change the world, but if they were just like, “We’re going to be true to ourselves and really tackle things we think are important,” that’s when you take off.
Marjorie Kehe is the Christian Science Monitor’s Books editor.
Maureen Corrigan is book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and the author of “So We Read On” and “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading!What is the book from 2014, either from your list or not, fiction or non-fiction, that is most likely to join the canon, or still be discussed 20 years from now?“Rick and Morty,” “Rixty Minutes”
The entire first season of Rick and Morty impressed me, but it was “Rixty Minutes” that blew me away and cemented the series as one of my new favorites. The centerpiece of “Rixty Minutes” isn’t the actual plot — there isn’t much of one — or the brilliance of using mindless channel surfing as a way to show the infinite number of alternate universes, the different twists and turns various members of the family could have taken. Instead, it’s a sweet but disturbing conversation between Morty and his sister, who just found out that in many of these alternate universes she doesn’t even exist. Morty reveals his own grave and “comforts” her by saying, “Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”
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