
On Friday, television blog WarmingGlow announced that HBO has signed on to produce a new show starring comedy folk duo Garfunkel and Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome) of “Pregnant Women are Smug” fame, since, as Bette Midler has argued, funny women are often confined to the smaller screen.
It seems impossible not to draw comparisons between Garfunkel and Oates and HBO’s …