According to Deadline, Adult Swim has given a series order to Three Busy Debras, a project produced by Amy Poehler and her Paper Kite production company. This comes almost exactly one year after the network—err, the… programming block that is treated like its own network even though it’s just Cartoon Network at night—initially ordered the pilot. Perhaps Adult Swim was concerned about launching a TV show that was actually created by women, which is something it has been infamously reluctant to do in the past? Either way, Three Busy Debras is becoming a TV show.
The series was created by, written by, and stars Sandy Honig, Mitra Jouhari, and Alyssa Stonoha, with the three of them playing “deranged housewives” who are all named Debra and live in the “affluent suburban town of Lemoncurd, Connecticut.” Presumably they are also very busy in addition to being deranged, but maybe that part of it is supposed to be self-aware commentary like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
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Will they get nicknames? Like Deb, Debbie, and Deba?
No, but they just announced it will now be called “Deb, Debb, and Debbie”
I have a better idea.
Deb, Debb and Debbie.They can call Debb “Double B”!
It took well into the second paragraph before realizing I was not reading about a show called Three Busty Debras. Sad!
Three Bushy Debras.Three Bearded Debras.Three Debras, One Amazing Surprise!
Three Dusty Zebras
Can’t wait to not give a shit about Batwoman’s lesbian romances, because it’s a fact that all the Arrowverse romance subplots are boring as shit.
I know this is posted on the wrong article but I feel like it’s funnier used as a response to this completely unrelated show and I wanted to make sure everyone sees it.
This fucking site.
This happens to me constantly. Go Kinja!
She’s becoming an annoying producer Judd Apatow-type person, she is. She ain’t ever bring the funny since the days of Stacey Richter.
Did you notice her name was on Russian Doll? That wasn’t bad.
Not to mention her recent comments asking when women will be allowed to be mediocre. This statement came from the maker of Baby Mama. Your honor, I rest my case.
Broad City and Russian Doll were bad or Apatow style producing whatever that means?
Maybe he means “A remarkably consistent run of quality, given how much stuff she’s listed as a ‘producer’ on”?Like, Apatow’s last true “miss” as a producer was Year One…which came out 10 years ago.
And to be fair, what reasonable person wouldn’t have attached himself to something directed by Harold Ramis if he had the chance?
You mean she’s becoming a rich-as-hell and extremely influential producer who uses their power to get things made by people they like and respect? THE HORROR!
You stole a TV.
Yeah, all she’s done is make a ton of money developing interesting shows and identifying and promoting talented people. How dare she. She should be doing sketch comedy of someone else’s show forever.
*begins to break dance*
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have felt outdated since becoming capitalists first, white bearers of privileged neoliberal politics second.
You are one of the better satire burner accounts, I give you credit.We need more clowns and funny people like you around in this age of Trump.Kudos!
Oh cool, I was waiting for Amy Poehler to create a sitcom mocking working class women with names like “Debra”. How tacky! Looking forward to this grindingly unfunny thing, Amy Poehler making fun of white working-class people. Did Trump 2020 pledge money to this show? Amy Poehler has run out of her grace period for me. So many rom-com bombs. Amy needs to start again, she’s coasting. Yeah, it’s her last chance. It’s funny when you think you’re so cute, and then you have a show that confirms you’re so cute, (Parks) that show ends and many years later we are over it and wondering, what have you done for me lately? Tell that to Tina Fey too. Got anything new? I see that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey do indeed have a new wacky comedy filled with past hits from rom-coms and comedies of the past 20 years. It smells like desperation, they really need this to be a hit. For their bank accounts. I don’t know why the rest of us are supposed to care. I just find Amy Poehler and Tina Fey to be talented and also incredibly smug people whose hits were years ago. Life moves on.
I assume poss sarcasm?If not if you’re familiar with the people making the show (which probs might be a thought before complaining about it’s potential content) you’ll know this so absolutely isn’t going to be any of the things you suggested…Now the show could still be bleugh in entirely different ways but producing this, Broad City and Russian Doll – those are interesting projects made by interesting voices
Broad City was a show made for center left liberals from Williamsburg. basically the next incarnation of Poehler and Fey.
No one cares what you think. Kill yourself.
Top- tier copypasta.
What did I copy and paste? No, I wrote it, and I know that when Amy Poehler sits in First Class on an airplane she hides from fans by covering her face with a magazine. She doesn’t want to meet the rabble. I don’t blame her, or Tina Fey, they are very rich entertainment professionals who really hate their fans. They’re extremely snotty and guarded, they are not someone ordinaries can meet or have a laugh with. They’re Hollywood stars and celebrities who want nothing to do with you, they don’t want to talk to you as a fan, they are just not the nice people you think they are.
Oh darling, you’re not the one copying and pasting it, but the destiny of both these bitter, vaguely-personal screeds is hysterical, delicious copypasta.
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What is this?
U wild, both of them are rich as fuck. I saw Poehler in a Comcast commercial the other day. Sit down man.
Reading comprehension. “White working class women” = “housewives in affluent Connecticut suburb, one of whom is named Mitra Jouhari”? Amy Poehler is producing, the three stars writes.
Ok, that’s a lot of text but we’ll start with how is Debra a working class name?
I remember when AS was quality programming.Aqua Teen, Venture Bros, Harvey Birdman, Superjail, Metalocalypse…everything started going to shit when Tim and Eric started dominating their programming.
Cool, as a nutmeg state resident all my life, this should be hilarious
You see, a woman with time on her hands would be called “Deborah”. But busy women, they don’t have time for those barely-pronounced letters!
That’s all well and good, but when is Making It coming back? I was promised more Making It and I want it now.