Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome like a good underdog story. Case in point: the name of their musical comedy duo is Garfunkel and Oates. For their quirky and highly entertaining new IFC series, Garfunkel and Oates, the pair dipped into their own experiences to play a struggling comedy team trying to claw their way up to what Lindhome calls "the middle class of show business." In the first episode, premiering this Thursday, Kate’s ineffectual agent spoils her big audition, while Riki’s sex life becomes, er, messy because of her...weak gag reflex. Was the gag reflex bit based on experience too, we asked? "I plead the Fifth!" said Lindhome. But she and Micucci were game to tell us all about burning bridges, hanging out with John Oates, and dropping some dating advice. Read more...
Garfunkel and Oates Saying What Everyone Else Is Thinking
Seven years since a pair of quickly written songs landed thousands of clicks and an unintended audience on YouTube, prompting them to turn their sweetly foul-mouthed and subversive brand of musical comedy into a genuine live act as Garfunkel and Oates, Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates) have become the most well-known guitar and ukulele players who have tackled their distaste for smug pregnant women, their ignorance on performing handjobs, and the virginal loophole of anal sex. Following a number of chart-climbing albums—their most recent 2012's All Over Your Face—and a recent series of shorts for HBO, Lindhome and Micucci are hoping to follow the cult success of Flight of Conchords with their very own self-titled television program, debuting this week (Thursday at 10 PM) on IFC. Taking a breather from a long weekend of promotion at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego, the duo discussed the difference between themselves and their characters "Riki" and "Kate," John Oates, and having porn and puppets featured in the same episode. Read more...
