I didn’t know what to expect from Garfunkel and Oates the TV show. Starring the band of the same name, Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci basically play versions of themselves in a sitcom version of their lives. Similar to Flight of the Concords (because they’re a band) and Broad City (because they’re two female best friends playing themselves in something based off of something they created for the internet), Garfunkel and Oates stars two women you’ve seen before on what is technically called a shit ton of TV shows, but probably don’t know by name. Particularly, Micucci (winner of the best/worst last name award, which I just created and gave out this very moment) has been on many quirky comedies in the past few years including The Big Bang Theory, Scrubs and Raising Hope. Read more...
IFC naughty distaff comedy “Garfunkel and Oates”
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“Garfunkel and Oates,” a naughty distaff cable comedy offering a take on 20something dating, friendship and ironic self-awareness, premieres Aug. 7 on IFC. If Laverne and Shirley had been allowed to discuss particular methods of male sexual gratification or express their real feelings about men not listening when they talk, and liberated from the sitcom mold, they might have ended up here. Read more...
Garfunkel and Oates is Naughty and Nice [Review]
It’s about time Garfunkel and Oates got their own TV show. For those not in the know, that may seem a confusing statement. But if you’ve peeked in on the Los Angeles comedy scene in the last seven-odd years, you’d recognize the names not as the secondary halves of two great bands, but as the stage name of one of the funniest and hardest-working comedy bands in the business. Read more...
Vogue Has Some Cool Things To Say About Garfunkel and Oates!
Comediennes Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome came up with their self-deprecating stage names Garfunkel and Oates as an ode to famous second fiddles in music, yet their new show on IFC of the same name is anything but second-rate. Read more...
Don’t compare “Garfunkel and Oates” to “Girls”!
It’s inevitable that any new show that diverges from the mainstream will get lumped in with something successful that came before. Because it’s a show about women who are unapologetically sexual, “Girls” was compared widely to “Sex and the City”; it became clear that the two shows had nothing in common shortly before “Broad City” came out, and got called the anti-“Girls.” (Then again, every single show involving women released since “Girls” has been compared to “Girls.”) Read more...
Garfunkel and Oates Get a TV Show of Their Own
On the Saturday of San Diego's Comic-Con, amid the throngs of cosplayers hovering at the Hilton Bayfront, Garfunkel and Oates — a.k.a. Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci — are being asked to take a selfie with a women in her 50s. The two are more than obliged, but the moment speaks volumes: No longer are Garfunkel and Oates the cult faves of the L.A. alter-comedy scene. They're now mainstream draws. Further bolstering Garfunkel and Oates' popularity at Comic-Con was their cameo at The Bang Bang Theory panel before an audience of 4,800, where they performed their song "Bernadette" from the show. Read more...
Garfunkle and Oats "If I Didn't Have You (Comic-Con Edition)"
Review 'Garfunkel and Oates' finds an odd, funny, endearing harmony
With Comedy Central's "Broad City," USA's "Playing House" and now "Garfunkel and Oates," which premieres Thursday on IFC, it is springtime on television for female comedy teams.
If the dynamic is not exactly without precedent — Lucy and Ethel, Mary and Rhoda, Laverne and Shirley, Leslie Knope and Ann Perkins, and whoever those characters on "2 Broke Girls" are — it has not been dominant. At the moment, it feels like an exciting new kind of dessert that makes all the old desserts seem suddenly less interesting. Read more...
Demure, Deadpan and Smutty, an Offshoot of Girl Power
Garfunkel and Oates are Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, a pair of comedians, actresses and songwriters who bear a glancing physical likeness to Art Garfunkel (Ms. Lindhome is tall and blond) and John Oates (Ms. Micucci is short and dark haired).
Naming their act — funny songs, stand-up, web videos and now a television show, “Garfunkel and Oates,” beginning Thursday on IFC — after a pair of famous supporting players signals Ms. Lindhome and Ms. Micucci’s intentions. They practice the comedy of female semi-empowerment, in which confidence (tending toward narcissism) and a still somewhat startling sexual frankness combine with old-fashioned insecurity and self-abasement, all of them generating laughs. Read more...
Garfunkel and Oates: The Best of What's Next
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The night Kate Micucci met Riki Lindhome, they were both on bad dates.
Says Kate: “When I met Riki…You know when you meet someone who is important in your life and you just have that feeling like you know it’s a bigger deal than usual? Like I couldn’t stop thinking about Riki after meeting her. I knew we were going to know each other. I just didn’t know that we would be singing and making shows and touring the country together.” Read more...
Garfunkel and Oates: What the Folk?
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There are a lot of people out there who are adept at mixing comedy and music, but no one does it quite like Garfunkel and Oates, the duo comprised of actresses Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome. No strangers to comedy, their humorous songwriting partnership happened quite by accident. "We were friends for a while,” Lindome explains. “We talked about our creative interests and we both wrote songs. It was just sort of a flow of things.” Read more...