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Garfunkel and Oates heading to the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis

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The women behind the musical-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates don't look like troublemakers.

Kate Micucci, with her ukulele and doe-eyed reactions to the chaos around her, made her the ideal candidate to play a fragile geek on "The Big Bang Theory," so intimidated by big-hearted Raj that she climbed out a bathroom window in the middle of a date. Guitar player Riki Lindhome, who had a recurring role on "Gilmore Girls," exudes a Midwest-bred wholesomeness straight out of "Little House on the Prairie."

But it's those innocent first impressions that allow them to get away with comic murder.

On their IFC self-titled series as well as on a tour that brings them to Minneapolis on Friday, the longtime friends perform peppy, poppy numbers (that have titles like "Sex With Ducks," "Gay Boyfriend" and "This Party Took a Turn for the Douche") with "Sesame Street"-like enthusiasm — and lyrics that would make Grover's hair fall out.

We spoke to the red-hot pair by phone from their apartments in Los Angeles.  Read more...

IFC's 'Garfunkel and Oates' Have Some Truth Bombs For Your Friends

Photo by Mark Davis

Photo by Mark Davis

Because it wasn't already great enough that the female comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates are going on a 14-stop live tour come late August, IFC has released seven hilarious "Brutally Honest Video Cards" in honor of National Friendship Day (August 3). The two ladies that make up the laugh-out-loud two-person musical group, Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, are gearing up for the August 7 premiere of their new IFC show, aptly titled Garfunkel and Oates, and they want to make sure that everyone has a special way to let their friends know exactly how they feel about them.  Read more...

‘Garfunkel & Oates’ Cancelled By IFC After One Season :(

IFC has opted not to order a second season of comedy series Garfunkel & Oates, which had a 10-episode freshman run last year. The half-hour show featured female comedy-folk duo Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates), and spotlighted the personal and professional lives of the duo whose career choices – singing satirical and sometimes dirty songs — left them with little in common with their peers, and no one but each other to turn to for support and understanding. The series was produced by Abominable Pictures and executive produced by Lindhome, Micucci and Jonathan Stern. IFC also recently cancelled The Birthday Boys after two seasons.

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Review 'Garfunkel and Oates' finds an odd, funny, endearing harmony

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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...

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Demure, Deadpan and Smutty, an Offshoot of Girl Power

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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...